Anonymous
11/27/2019 20:56
Subject: Possible anti gay hate crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:Wait, do people not understand why a hate crime is different?
It's not because it's worse to assault a gay person. It's because if you assault someone *because* they are gay, the effect of your crime does not just impact the person who is assaulted. It impacts the rest of the community. It makes people scared, it makes people restrict their movements.
Yeah because if some dude is on the loose with a machete everyone who is not gay is gonna say "no worries, he only attacks gay people, I'm just going to walk down to the store like I normally would, and if I see him I'll just say 'hey man, I'm straight' and he'll leave me alone."
Anonymous
11/27/2019 20:51
Subject: Possible anti gay hate crime in DC
I agree that the gays just need to chill.
Anonymous
11/21/2019 21:56
Subject: Possible anti gay hate crime in DC
I know a gay couple who would consider an ugly floral arrangement to be a hate crime.