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Because before we had them, there were lynchings of blacks. There was burning of crosses on the lawns of black people in order to intimidate them to move out of the neighborhood.
Because people are randomly targeted for violence in order to send a message of hate to an entire group. Because genocide still exists in our world. It existed in Rwanda, in Bosnia, in Nazi Germany.
It existed in the murders of Matthew Shephard and Mulageta Seraw. It is not ordinary assault or murder. It is used as a form of violence against an entire community. It is a form of domestic terrorism, IMO.
All those things were already against the law.
FAIL.
What about the "increased deterrence" argument?
I think it would succeed in making the criminals more careful about sharing their "hate" thoughts. But I think hate laws are far more likely to intensify the hate they attempt to address than they are to diffuse it. People just don't respond well to being told what to think and what to feel.