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winston · 4627 days ago · link · · parent · post: 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
I tend to think that all violent crimes are "hate" crimes.
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There's no doubt that there are people that hate groups and there are people that hate individuals. Either way, the result is hate. When you beat a man to death because you hate that he didn't do your taxes properly is it different than if you do so because he's a Protestant? It should be the same punishment either way and the same definition imo.
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user-inactivated · 4625 days ago · link ·
Alright, that's what I meant too, saying "a crime is a crime, whether the person is disabled, colored, gay or none of those". But still, even before committing a crime, there is a difference between hating a particular person you know for having done (or not) something you can not generalize to a whole group vs. hating equally all members of a population segment. Put my original comment a different way: why do those tweeters feel allowed to publicly hate gays while it would be probably less accepted if they would publicly hate blacks?