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Originally Posted by peter12
In what way? The problem with real race crimes is often the criminal justice system's lack of care in actually prosecuting crimes. Blacks weren't suffering from "hate crimes," they were suffering from an almost seemingly lack of care by the criminal justice system to actually defend them from the crimes being wantonly committed against their communities.
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And? It's not like we can't do better in actually prosecuting race crimes in addition to the implementation of hate crimes. I happen to think laws should perform a dual purpose by both protecting people and influencing social norms. The normative position enforced by hate crime legislation is "you ought not to assault someone based on their race, gender, sexual-orientation, etc." That seems to me to be an acceptable norm to impose upon society.