I think we'd all be better off by watching the South Park episode that addresses hate crimes. Brilliant episode.
On a somewhat related note, I heard an interesting story from Jon Lovitz about a "hate crime" against a Jewish family in LA. Some kids were driven by their mother over to this Jewish girl's house and the kids proceeded to paint swasticas and other assorted anti Jewish slogans on her front step. The catch is that they did it with Syrup (sorry I can't confirm if it was maple or Aunt Jemima) and since syrup isn't permanent it wasn't classified as a hate crime but some lesser crime like "inciting hate" or some such BS. Anyway good ole Mr Lovitz called these kids out on Twitter. Stupid disctinction though, hey?
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