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Originally Posted by dippin
And again, the law doesn't divide into subgroups, protects certain groups or anything like that. It treats crimes motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation and so on differently because they are different. Hate crimes involve an element of intimidation against the community that make its effect go beyond the specific crime and the law needs to recognize that.
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wouldn't that also have the same effect of promoting racism/sexism/homophobism?
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