NY Yankees suck. wrote:I wonder if a lot of the people voting yes would support legislation making murdering someone who is wealthy a hate crime. Or murdering someone who lives off the stock market. Or murdering someone for being Israeli.
Or how about someone who is simply white?
A while back, 3 black men and 1 black woman carjacked the car of a white couple and then brutally raped, tortured, and murdered them, then stuffed their bodies into trash cans in front of their house. Not only was this left largely out of the news (and completely out of network news), but the crime itself was not even prosecuted as a hate crime.
It seems that in order to be a victim of a hate crime or hate speech, you have to be a minority group that has a social reputation of being 'oppressed' to begin with. Even though a crime committed against a white person which is racially motivated and hatefully carried out, it won't be prosecuted as a hate crime.