Will this qualify as a hate crime?
Skinheads vs. Mormons
Although any crime of violence is a “hate crime,” and enhanced penalties should not be accorded special victims, targeting religion has become a factor in determining culpability.
What if neither the victim nor perpetrator are minorities?
That is, unless you consider carving a swastika inside one’s wrist as a mental defect, allowing the perps to claim bona fide minority status.
May 6, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I absolutely despise the notion of “Hate Crimes.” Why should one crime victim get special penalties enacted on the criminal perpetrator over another victim of the same crime–simply because one victim is an ethnic or religious minority or homosexual and the other victim of the exact same crime is a white-bread, run of the mill, mainstreamer.
This is worse than offensive. Glad to read that Seeing Red AZ agrees with me. We are both brilliant!!
May 6, 2008 at 2:49 pm
White victim, white criminal? Where’s the hate? In fact, where’s the crime?
Marianne, you are exactly right about this double standard. Hate crime legislation was bogus from the beginning.
May 6, 2008 at 4:35 pm
It should absolutely be a hate crime.
May 6, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Evidently there is a lot more to this story than was reported in the liberal leaning papers. But isn’t there always?
May 6, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Marianne is correct. Hate crimes fit the ACLU and other lefty groups ideals of protected classes. Why are some of us accorded greater victim status than others who suffered the same crime? This is preposterous feel goodism that appeals to liberals.
May 6, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Wouldn’t you just know this would be right up Italiana’s alley?