| sapphi_snake said: Well, if someone beat you up for being a straight white male, then it would surely be a hate crime. Motive is a factor when deciding how to punish a criminal. And I'm quite sure teenagers who would vandalize a Synagogue would be antisemites, and probably skin heads. Of course their act would be a hate crime. |
I can give you two personal experiences that one could be consider racial that was done unintentionally by me and that I was unware of. I sometimes called Japanese by their shorter WW2 name probably because I might have heard it from my Grandpa that happen to fight in WW2 on a destroyer against the Japanese. Anyways, I was then corrected in high school computer lab after I typed it in and the teacher overhearing/seeing which then I was informed I shouldn't use anymore. Another time I was working at a previous job and happened to say a line from Foghorn leghorn "i said, i said" then I continued on with "now boy, now boy" to two people that happened to be black which then I was informed that wasn't a good term to use to African American. They eventually realized that I had no clue what I did and I probably did the Foghorn leghorn impersonation a few more times to them goofing off. I didn't do my research on derogatory terms when I came down to Texas since I grew up in Ohio and never really dealt with any racial prejudice towards any race.
Main point I am trying to make is that the person can get their ass kicked for many reasons or a crime might be committed that wasn't really intentionally hate motivated and to charge them with hate crime felony charges is unjust.
