What makes hate crime law racist, is the laws attempt to set the interest of one race above the interests of others.Not all murders are equal? That's just stupid on the face of it. What about assault's? Over 70 Whites were attacked during the "knockout game" and none of the Black perpetrators were prosecuted. Clearly these were racially motivated. But, when a White kid in Katy, Texas did the same to a Black man...Holder Justice Department pursued Civil Rights violation and possible hate crime offense. Therefore this makes "hate crime" laws racist and in my opinion %100 unconstitutional.let's say a guy gets mad at another driver and shoots him. that's not a hate crime and that murder might get a 20 year sentence. but if the person is a known racist and goes out and kills a black person the circumstances are different. that person should get more years in jail because it's a hate crime.This guy is a nut jobber...but it is not a hate crime. No such thing. He is a common criminal. Black or White. An Arab launching an attack against a nation-state is a terrorist.how come if an Arab did what he did you call him a terrorist and if a black person did it you would call him a murderer but the media is calling you white guy mentally ill?You mean like MSNBC or the DNC.org?
in this situation it doesn't matter because hate crime or not this guy is going to get life in prison for the death penalty he will never see freedom again. Hate crimes are most important when determining whether the killer should get 20 years or more. do you understand this? Do you understand why we have hate crime laws? Because not all murders are equal
FYI: such is the nature of Relativism.
But this does prove the foolish nature of subjectivism ... And why it can never serve justice.
seems to me "hate crime" ----should not be overused----but it is---generally---a good idea to have such a designation----I do not understand how it turns out to have an effect on penalty.
well, it was a tv show.
harmless fluff, but the confederate flag was presented as a harmless symbol of southern regional pride in the show, painted by the main characters on their 1969 dodge charger, the general lee, who were presented as sympathetic characters.
and this was accepted without comment by the nationwide tv viewing audience and the population as a whole.
the "offense" people are now feeling is a recent creation having nothing to do with anything pre 1980s
Because most people understand that it was a fictional show.
The "Duke boys" were constantly breaking the law too. Should we say, since it was accepted on tv that we should allow people to ignore the law?
standard robin hood behavior, a well established cliche.
flying the confederate flag, not so much.
if it was as offensive as libs would have us believe today, then that show as done, would have never been approved, and if developed and shown would never have been accepted by the viewing audience.
instead it was a nation wide hit tv show.
because the american people of 1979 knew that the flag was a harmless symbol of regional southern pride.
Please stop with the "Confederate flag is OK because the Duke boys had one" argument
It really makes you look like a moron
bullshit.
it's a historical fact of the flag being accepted by the nation as a whole in recent memory.
this disproves your lib narrative of blacks and/or americans being soooooo offended by it because of something that happened in the past, because this offense was not present as recently as the 80s.
The flag was accepted by the KKK
both the Nazi flag and the Confederate flag
are acceptable in comedies. Clowns can wear them on their asses-------but they should not be displayed over US government buildings. They are offensive to ENOUGH people. Did the VICHY government in france during world war II have a flag?