There's a lot to unpack there, but honestly people need to push back against the very concept of "hate crimes" even being a legitimate thing in the first place. It's very rapidly approaching something I would consider to be completely normalized even among normie conservatives.
200% agree. I hate any "add-on" crimes on general principle. Let's take a violent "hate crime" for example. Considering this is a hypothetical, let's even go with the lefty wet dream of a big bad Hwite man attacking a black guy, specifically because he just absolutely loathes black people. Alright, I don't care why he did it, attacking people is already a crime, and that's the real issue. I don't care if this hypothetical white man was wearing a freaking SS uniform, the issue is the attack. Not the motivation. Not how much of a wrongthinker he is. Hate crimes aren't real. If a crime has been committed, charge that. Hate crimes are literally thought crimes.
The problem is that the law is deliberately written to be used in spirit instead of letter, and for good reasons at the onset.
For example, the "why gary why" scenario where you just openly cold blooded murder a man in public is a serious offense. But the context and intent make it not just justifiable but almost a good thing, which is why the Dad got basically a slap on the wrist for it. Same with most "crimes of passion."
So they took a loophole designed to lessen sentences for acts committed for understandable reasons and then reversed it to increase them for understandable reasons.
There's a lot to unpack there, but honestly people need to push back against the very concept of "hate crimes" even being a legitimate thing in the first place. It's very rapidly approaching something I would consider to be completely normalized even among normie conservatives.
200% agree. I hate any "add-on" crimes on general principle. Let's take a violent "hate crime" for example. Considering this is a hypothetical, let's even go with the lefty wet dream of a big bad Hwite man attacking a black guy, specifically because he just absolutely loathes black people. Alright, I don't care why he did it, attacking people is already a crime, and that's the real issue. I don't care if this hypothetical white man was wearing a freaking SS uniform, the issue is the attack. Not the motivation. Not how much of a wrongthinker he is. Hate crimes aren't real. If a crime has been committed, charge that. Hate crimes are literally thought crimes.
The problem is that the law is deliberately written to be used in spirit instead of letter, and for good reasons at the onset.
For example, the "why gary why" scenario where you just openly cold blooded murder a man in public is a serious offense. But the context and intent make it not just justifiable but almost a good thing, which is why the Dad got basically a slap on the wrist for it. Same with most "crimes of passion."
So they took a loophole designed to lessen sentences for acts committed for understandable reasons and then reversed it to increase them for understandable reasons.
Again for the people in the back.