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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=takoma]The legal concept of a hate crime was created to protect oppressed minorities.   This murder may well have stemmed from racial hatred, but there is an imbalance between the status of whites in America and the status of blacks.  It would be a terrible crime if a group of black men lynched a white man, but as a matter of historic fact, that is not something that has happened repeatedly, while white lynchings of blacks were once common in parts of the country.

I have no problem with these kids being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.  But it seems to me that bringing up hate crimes does lttle more than say that the hundreds of lynchings and other crimes against blacks over the years (or beatings and killings of gays) are somehow less horrible because blacks kill whites also.

All killings are bad, but certain types are a much greater problem in our society.  Not that one killing is a greater sin than another, just that certain types are a quantitatively greater problem and merit specific legal remedies.[/quote]

If you think that "hate crimes" are "a quantitatively greater problem" than standard issue street crime, you might want to refresh your study of crime statistics.  Points for honesty, though, most people at least try to pretend that "hate crimes" are a neutral concept, instead of what they are, which is a very definite and left-wing political point of view written into the criminal law.  [/quote]

That's only left leaning because lynchings are a right wing activity. [/quote]

Back when lynchings actually occurred, they were a Democratic party activity. These days lynchings are reserved for likes of Zimmerman, Pagones and the Duke Lacrosse Team. In other words, it's still a Democratic Party activity.[/quote]

The duke lacrosse team went free and the prosecutor was sent to jail by another prosecutor  hardly the narrative you made up. [/quote]

The reality doesn't matter to the left. What is important is the perception of white racism and injustice that these cases help create regardless of any reality to them or not. In each of the cases above the perception of racism, the atmosphere of racial division were increased. This helps feed and sustain the identity politics which along with class warfare are the two pillars that the Democratic party has always been built on. The fact that the Democrats have shifted their racist backing from poor whites to poor non-whites changed the fundamental philosophy not a bit.[/quote]

As a conservative, you don't get to tell us what we think, just your wife. [/quote]

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