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Still more unintended consequencesKarl Lembke discusses
the effects of fake hate crimes.
Karl Lembke of Rite Wing
TechnoPagan has comments on the long term social effects of
people faking hate
crimes.
"To the extent that such acts are intended to "raise consciousness" about gay bashing, it's having the opposite effect. The more this happens, the more any real victim of a real hate crime will have to prove it's not a hoax. "This kind of thing pollutes the field for the group it's intended to benefit." Me, I still have a problem with the whole idea of hate crimes. I think hate crimes create a disparity by elevating crimes against one group over crimes against another group. The intent may have been to draw attention to crimes against a specific class of people, but hate crime legislation encourages victims to blame stereotypical groups rather than those who committed the crime to begin with. Take murder for example. Is a murder victim any more dead if they are a "minority" killed by a "majority?" Doesn't this kind of thinking encourage people to overlook crimes committed by members of a "minority" against members of the same "minority?" Gods, I really hate breaking people into "racial groups" like that. We're all human for crying out loud. And I have yet to see any "hate crime" that wasn't illegal before being defined as a hate crime. It's not surprising that people fake hate crimes to get attention. After all, the intent of hate crime laws are to discriminate. The laws perpetuate the very prejudice that the laws were supposed to fix. 
Posted: Wed - May 11, 2005 at 04:10 PM
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