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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13751
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Love them? Hate them (irony)? Time to express an opinion.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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In the USA (and elsewhere, IMO), people should not be punished for what they think or feel. Fundamentalist Christians tend to see themselves as victims of state oppression and fear that hate-crime laws are a wedge with which to attack their religious freedoms.
Those arguments miss the point. Unlike crimes against individuals, hate crimes are designed to change the behavior of groups: to instill fear, to discourage group members from living in certain neighborhoods, to influence decisions about where to build a mosque, to dissuade gay people from coming out of the closet, etc.
Hate crimes are thus a form of terrorism and should be punished more severely than other crimes.
"Tu non altro che il canto avrai del figlio, o materna mia terra..."
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