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J Bananas:
How do you guys feel about the classification of "hate crimes" in prosectuing certain crimes? Are they helpful and should people be punished more for their bias? or is it all some pc horseshit? IMO "hate crimes" are just another way of classifying people on a large level and don't really do anything for race relations, or gay/straight relations at all. The idea that someone should be punished more severely because of their prejudices is childish and in fact just another bias against people who don't want to conform to whatever pc agenda sought after by the select amount of people in control. Anybody have any experience with this issue, opinions?

Don Rizzle:
murder is an act of hate, it makes no different if you kill someone because of their skin colour, religion or because they did something that pissed you off the penalty should be the same. the only difference in classification is if it was provoked or unprovoked.

Lincoln:
I pretty much agree with you. I also feel it is easy to take out of context, South Park did a great satire on it a few years back.

If I get in a fight, and the person is black or gay or whatever, can they make a claim that it was due to that fact if it wasn't? The PC bullshit would believe the person of a minority ethnicity as opposed to a straight white man.

Don Seer:
yeah thats true...


but there are people that will out n out attack on grounds of race or sexuality...

7even:

--- Quote ---The idea that someone should be punished more severely because of their prejudices is childish and in fact just another bias against people who don't want to conform to whatever pc agenda sought after by the select amount of people in control.
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Confirmed.

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