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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Solon who wrote (24223)8/24/2001 2:13:25 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The motivation for hate crimes
must be HATE--heartless and mindless HATE.

Nope. Not what it says.

...motivated either in whole or in part by hostility...

First, hate and hostility are different things.

Second, it can be in part hostility. That doesn't have to be the motivation, or even the principal motiviation. If there's even a smidgen of hostility -- and if sociologists are right that many people have a latent bias toward people of other races, or if it's worse than that and it's true that, as some black leaders say, all whites are racists -- then virtually every crime against a person of a different race or sex could be pled as a hate crime.

That's the real problem with trying to peer into the mind of the criminal and say "was any part of your motivation based on hostility toward the race, sex, etc. of your victim?"

Not a world I want to live in.
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