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Originally Posted by girlgun
i do realize there are reasons hate crime laws were put into place, but i do believe they are better in theory than in practice though.
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this can apply to almost any law though.
"hate crime laws" were put into place so that inviduals who were
obviously committing a crime that WAS more severe (due to the actions and reasoning behind it), could be adequately prosecuted as such.
(non-violent) example:
Tagger_X spray paints "Tagger_X wuz here" on the side of a convenience store.
Hitlers 'lil Helper paints "ALL JEWZ MUSST DIE!" on the side of a synagogue.
one is obviously worse than the other, yet
previously, both would be simply vandalism. they ARE NOT the same crime, yet no law existed that defined them as different (mostly because nobody gave a fuck what people thought of "jews and niggers", and STILL DON'T care about "gays and women").