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Originally Posted by rubecube
The difference is when an attacker cites a person's race as a direct reason for, or in a disparaging manner that predicates their attack on the victim. The reason for having hate-crime laws is that people still use race as a reason to assault victims and therefore racial minorities face additional risks of being assaulted. You can argue that perhaps this doesn't fit your ideal conception of justice, but then we have a case where idealism meets pragmatism, and pragmatism wins out.
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So would you agree that attempts by the Canadian government to charge groups organizing anti-Israel boycotts were hate crimes?