[ SECRET POST #2296 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2296 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Hate Crimes Legislation

[(Anonymous)]

As I understand it, the reason that hate crime legislation is an important thing is that, unlike a random mugging-gone-wrong or something, when someone is targeted and attacked just for being gay (or black, or Muslim, or whatever else), it's not only an attack against that one victim; it intimidates and terrorizes the entire minority group to which the victim belongs, creating an environment in which everyone who shares that trait will have reason to fear for their lives just by going outside. There's a reason we have a separate charge for "terrorism" that's distinct from murder or arson -- because of the ripple effect it has beyond the boundaries of the original crime. It's the same with hate crimes -- the target isn't just that one person, but everyone like them, and the sentence reflects that.