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A troubling story for two reasons [message #63236]

Wed, 04 August 2010 14:27

timmy

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I just picked up coverage in http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-riverside-babysitter-charged,0,1999838.story where a babysitter struck a 17 month old child to make him act in a more masculine manner.

"...Pedro Jones, 20, of South Hampton. He has been charged with first-degree manslaughter after allegedly hitting the boy "several times throughout his body with close fists" and grabbed him by the neck, according to the felony complaint filed by police."

So we have one sick man here. He fails to understand that children are children. At least he won;t fail to understand nay more children. But that is not the point of my post.

The first point is the location. I am not familiar with the USA and its attitude to the peoples displaced by the white settlers, but this was on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation on Long Island. SO it appears that a fine people will be tarnished by the crime. Jones isn't Shinnecock; he may be hispanic with the forename of Pedro. That is a supplementary problem. Two underclasses may well mean the prosecution will be mishandled.

The second is that this has been picked up as a potentially newsworthy anti gay hate crime according to the increasingly low quality 356 Gay News at http://www.365gay.com/news/man-accused-of-killing-infant-for-acting-like-a-girl/

"New York’s anti-discrimination laws do cover gender and sexual orientation, but there has been no word from police officials whether this crime will be investigated as a hate crime."

That looks to me to be a plea for folk to start trying to get it classified as such.

I think we'll find that this was just some stupid psycho jerk who should never have been near kids. It's pretty hard to consider this a hate crime. Hateful, yes. Hate, no.

We have to be careful what we wish for when trying to make every crime, however unpleasant, into a hate crime. We are not that special.

[Updated on: Wed, 04 August 2010 14:37]

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		A troubling story for two reasons By: timmy on Wed, 04 August 2010 14:27
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