Canada kicks racist butt!

[sapphi_snake]

Khuutra said:

sapphi_snake said:

Khuutra said:

You make a good distinction, though the motivation in the first crime is not analogous.

Suppose you attack a person becauuse he hurt your mother's feelings, or because he is a fan of another sports team, or any othe rnumber of reasons not related to race or creed?

I guess I will need to think on this a while longer; I haven't given hate crime legislation a thought in years

That's called revenge, not hate.

Hate is a motivating factor of revenge; every person who acts against other races or creeds does so out of a misplaced sense of retribution and vengeance.

The sports team thing stands, though.

You example (attacking a person because he hurt your mother's feelings) isn't an example of "hate" necessarily. Plus, hate crimes refer to "hate" (more likely prejudice) on a grand scale (like racism or homophobia). A person who hates a particular individual because that individual hurt his mother's feelings isn't half as dangerous as a person who hates entire groups of people for irrational and prejudiced reasons.

As for the sports thing, well that's like the whole console war we got going on over here. It's a form of primitive tribal manifestations (the fans are like members of the tribe, the game is like war, winning the game is like winning the war, when the team you support wins the war the feeling is comparable to that of when tribes would win a war in the past, fans put on clothes with certain colors and paint their bodies sometime - war pain - etc.). This has little to do with the prejudices of racism or homophobia, or sexism.