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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
But it matters to society.
A white man in Alabama kills a black man in a dispute over money.
The Ku Klux Klan orchestrates and carries out the abduction of a black man and lynches him on the lawn of a black church.
Do you really think politicians and the justice system should regard the two as essentially the same?
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I agree it matters to society and I didn't say that the two should be treated the same in all ways.
And that's an interesting parallel I'll have to think about that.
Racially motivated violence happens, but we don't see calls to block those who perpetrate that violence from entering the country. We don't see politicians campaigning on banning racial violence perps. People accept that racial violence is part of having an integrated society and that we have to work on making it better, which contrasts to the response to violence from terrorists.