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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So why is this an anti-LGBT act? Do we not think this group of frat boys would have “attacked” if the house had just been turned into a different fraternity? Is every crime a hate crime if its victim is LGBT?[/quote]

If this were a co-ed French Language house would they have tried to break in and chanted give back our house, urinate, etc., hard to say.  I can’t put myself in the mind of a 21 (let’s pretend they were all of legal drinking age) frat boy at Bucknell.  I can’t imagine that world where my parents could have afforded a $60,000 a year school plus the fees to join a Greek organization and I would think it a good idea as a black female, first generation college student to literally piss it away harassing other students and breaking into a dorm while being publicly intoxicated and possibly calling into attention underage drinking.

Which brings me to the second question, would the campus police just have chatted up and said boys will be boys if this were a different group of people trying to break into the dorms and a different group of residents called and said they felt unsafe.  Based on what I’ve seen of the world, I would say probably not.  But the bottom line is the frat was in the wrong, they should not be threatening people in their dorm trying to break in and the campus police should have taken the situation seriously.  Unless there are criminal charges of it being a hate crime and the debate is if it meets that threshold versus being a crime why are we even debating when wrong is wrong?[/quote]

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