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Old 10-14-2002, 10:34 PM  
Carrie
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The most important part of "hate crime" is "crime".
Who cares if it was based on some stupid neanderthal thinking that one color is better than another or one sexuality is better than another or one sex is better than another? Who really gives a good fuck? It doesn't matter.
What matters is that the person committed a CRIME. Murder, beating, robbing - these all have laws against them punishable by time in jail and/or the death sentence. There shouldn't be *more* of a sentence because of *why* they did it. There is only the fact that they did it when they knew they shouldn't have. Nothing else matters.

"Hate crime" is two things: thought police in action, and feel-good bullshit for people who fear those unlike themselves. The totality of it is nonsense.
The only thing that matters is that there was a crime, and the perpetrator needs to be punished. Period.
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