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Old 10-03-2012, 04:41 PM   #92
Cecil Terwilliger
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Originally Posted by GGG View Post
The hate crime legislation protects all people. Everyone belongs to some kind of religious (or lack thereof), racial, sexual orientation or gender group. The hate crime legislation applies to all groups.

The legislation provides enhanced protection for groups above the protection normally given to individuals. This does not change the rights of the individual minority or non minority person.

So if any group is attacked for being what they are. Say White males are targeted for being white it would be a hate crime.

The fact that not all groups have hate crimes committed against them really demonstrates the need for the legislation
And here I thought that's what the laws in place, prior to hate crime legislation, were doing already.
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