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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Um, this is the point? Are you even paying attention? We're talking about a norm that exists - hate crimes in Canada. You are saying it shouldn't. I'm saying your rationale for that position is idiotic. What are you even talking about?
You have to actually make laws that are actually enforceable, which requires an actus reus in addition to intent. This is how our legal system works.
What is this gibberish?
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Don't be such a tool. I get it, you are a lawyer. Or you have gone to law school. Either way, you are a dweeb.
My point was, how is charging someone with a racist or prejudiced intent to commit a crime categorically different. How is hitting a black person because he is black different than hitting a black person because he is poor? Why is there a difference, and how is it actually enforceable.
Why is that crime, harassment, categorically different if she had said it to a white guy with a Polish accent? What if it was just a 50 year-old Joe Schmo, from Okotoks, Alberta, and she decided to berate and insult him?
You say you are a lawyer, but you seem to be unaware that there has been significant controversy over this very question in Canada.
Maybe you should read this:
https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/sc...m/695/index.do