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❝❝For years, I've asked the question what makes a "hate crime" worse than another crime for the same offense. I've never gotten a straight answer.

Well, here it is. "Hate crimes" are absolutely justified if it's for the correct reason. Thou shalt not dissent from the approved narrative. Victims are victims unless they strike out against the Man as declared by progressive experts. And collective victimhood counts, especially if it acts against collective oppression. The individual MUST be subservient to the label, all in the name of The Greater Good and to Protect the Children.

So now we know. If it offends progressives, anything is justified so feelings can be protected and any questionable behavior can be ruthlessly suppressed.

Yep, definitely about the hate there.❞❞

Tags: hate crime ∙ thou shalt not dissent ∙ victims ∙ The Man ∙ individual ∙ subservient to the label ∙ The Greater Good ∙ protect the children ∙ questionable behavior ∙ ruthlessly suppressed

No one person and no one group has all the answers. No one group should be vested with THE moral authority to decide who is and is not a hate group.

The SPLC needs competition.

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Tags: Christian ∙ campus ∙ mass shootings ∙ Las Vegas ∙ shooting ∙ The Satanic Temple ∙ lawsuit ∙ State Department ∙ Hillary Clinton ∙ religion ∙ surveillance ∙ Congress ∙ net neutrality ∙ competition ∙ University of Iowa ∙ Faith organization ∙ humanist ∙ atheist ∙ climate change ∙ hate crime

How hate and debate came to a Connecticut mosque

““The night of Nov. 14, 2015, was not the first time Ted Hakey, 50, went into his backyard in Meriden, Connecticut, and fired guns to let off some steam. It was the night after a deadly terror attack in Paris, and Hakey was furious.

So he shot his Springfield Armory M1A .308-caliber rifle into the air. Some of those shots hit the Baitul Aman Mosque next door. Luckily, no one was in the building at the time.

“I wanted to scare ’em, but the shots that hit were never supposed to hit,” says Hakey, who admits he harbored significant hate for Muslims back then. His Facebook posts reflect that well enough.

Prosecutors used some of those posts to build their case against him. The shooting got him six months in jail on federal hate crime charges, but leaders of the mosque argued he should be forgiven and not even serve jail time. Dr. Mohammed Qureshi, the mosque president, expressed this feeling to the judge at Hakey’s sentencing.

For 29-year-old Zahir Mannan, the criminal case was an opportunity to show Hakey and anyone else paying attention — which by then included the national media — what Islam is really about.””
     — Arthur Nazaryan

Tags: Ted Hakey ∙ Zahir Mannan ∙ Meriden, Connecticut ∙ guns ∙ hate crime ∙ Arthur Nazaryan ∙ Baitul Aman Mosque ∙ forgiven ∙ ohammed Qureshi ∙ islam

❝❝I'm still waiting for you to make the case how a hate crime is worse than a non-hate crime for the same “transgression.”❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: hate crime ∙ maxims

“People of Color: You Are Not Oppressed”

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I've never agreed with the “hate crime" nonsense.

Tags: Crux Files ∙ hate crime ∙ assault ∙ murder ∙ theft ∙ punishment ∙ racist ∙ skin color ∙ sexual orientation ∙ red socks ∙ aren't good enough ∙ will never be good enough ∙ perpetual victim ∙ Christian Scientist ∙ conservative

Louisiana and Kentucky have both passed laws that add police and emergency responders to the hate crime laws.

Tags: hate crime ∙ short ∙ black lives matter ∙ blue lives matter ∙ Louisiana ∙ Kentucky