So other crimes are committed because the criminal likes you?
Any crime is a hate crime if you think about it.Why do we have hate crime legislation?Because those crimes are committed against a person simply for being who they are. People have no control over their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, etc., and those crimes are often committed against strangers. If I cheat on my boyfriend and he murders me, then that shows he had motive because of my actions, however stupid they are. If a guy kills a random girl just because she is black and he hates all blacks, that seems more depraved, I guess. they are there to punish bigotry, basically. If I hate someone because of their personality or actions or whatever, then I just hate them. If I hate them because of their race, that is bigotry.
"Hate crimes differ from conventional crime because they are not directed simply at an individual, but are meant to cause fear and intimidation in an entire group or class of people."
"In Wisconsin v. Mitchell, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously found that "bias-motivated crimes are more likely to provoke retaliatory crimes, inflict distinct emotional harms on their victims, and incite community unrest...."
"The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that penalty-enhancement hate crime statutes do not conflict with free speech rights because they do not punish an individual for exercising freedom of expression; rather, they allow courts to consider motive when sentencing a criminal for conduct which is not protected by the First Amendment."Why do we have hate crime legislation?yeah, go figure. How do they justify outlawing an emotion?Why do we have hate crime legislation?To help a white bigot racist from committing a crime against one of "those" people just because "they" don't belong in "their" neighborhood.
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