Years ago I was arguing with a, you guessed it, a white male who considered himself "perfectly progressive," but he was saying that America shouldn't have special hate crime laws because they go against the first amendment...
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His argument was honestly that you punish the crime itself, and if you are adding punishment because of what someone said during a crime with racial / homophobic slurs, you are therefore punishing what they 'said" and that should be protected...
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The cognitive dissonance of this stunning for lots of obvious reasons, but I'm going to stick with two simple points. The first is that of course you include what was said because it gives insight into motive and motive 100% dictates both the level of the crime and the punishment
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Hell, motive is what literally differentiates the degree of murder charges. So of course we account for motive, as it's the single most important element. Arguing against that holds precisely zero water.
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The second point is that if you are going to bend over backwards to say that hate crime legislation shouldn't exist despite the myriad of reasons it needs to, you might want to take a look in the fucking mirror as to why and get real with yourself.
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And all the <3333333 to Jussie.
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