But there have been instances where a crime was committed that obviously wasn't hate-related, but hate crime legislation was applied to them solely because of the races of the parties involved. I'm not saying that any violent act is okay, but it does bother me that if I killed a black man that I could potentially be more severely punished than if a black man killed a black man.
Like I said, I agree that it's a double standard and subject to what one's definition of "hate" is... A very "slippery slope" as stated above by others. But I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Should hate-crime laws be rescinded? Probably. But there are probably a hundred other inequities in the justice system I'd go after first.
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