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Hate Crimes and protected classes

Discussion in 'Philosophy' started by MD Finley, Jan 23, 2017.

  1. MD Finley

    MD Finley New Member

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    There's been a lot of talk about protected classes of people and hate crimes. The reality is, hate crime statutes create classism. Crimes against ordinary, non-protected classes are somehow less heinous than those perpetrated against protected ones. Murder is murder and rape is rape, irrespective of what category of human is victimized. Shoot a child?--horrible, they say. Shoot a child who also happens to be of a certain protected class? --infinitely worse.

    It is not worse. Crimes against humans are crimes against humans. It doesn't matter what group you belong to. You may not realize it, but African Americans are charged with hate crimes against other races all the time. Crime is crime as defined statutorily, by the laws on the books. It is not "more wrong" if it's against a certain class of people.

    The only true hate crime is any crime against any other human.

    What do you think?
     

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