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user-inactivated · 4626 days ago · link · · parent · post: 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
Alright but the distinction I make is between hating one person (maybe for a lot of reasons) and hating a group of people based on some common factor.
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?