But, but, you said:
"Jillian: "hate crime is a conversational description. the police align their language more with the statute.
stop whining,
white people aren't the subject of very many bias crimes. so i'd suggest you put on your big boy pants."
But you said Hate Crime is just a conversational description. I didn't see any reference to it being a Conversational term. Believe me I am not whining. Just need to be caught up with the conversation description. Could you please give me a link?
Why does it even matter? Bias crime. Hate crime. Same difference. But don't worry if anyone kicks the bejesus out of you while calling you a white devil, they'll be charged under whatever bias/hate stature exists.
Seriously, other than white male Christians whining, I'm not sure what the point of this discussion is
You hit the nail on the head. For centuries it was ok for whites to kill, hang, maim etc any Black people they could find without threat of of repercussion. When it became legal for Blacks to fight back you saw a drastic drop in white on Black violence as these white males are basically cowards that need the full strength of the law to back them. Now when a Black person attacks a white person it causes them stress because they cant go out and burn a Black town to the ground in retaliation.
You shouldn't have said that last sentence. Just who, pray tell, burns towns down, loots and destroy local businesses.
For years blacks were ostracized, physically harmed, ridiculed and treated like dirt. Those times are changing and the culprits are found and prosecuted. Finally!
But we cannot go backwards...this will bring only animosity and the circle of abuse continues.
Let's be fair. We are in the present, now.
If a black is physically assaulted, verbally assaulted with racist speech we damn well expect the perpetrator to be arrested with a Hate Crime and prosecuted. That is the right thing to do.
Conversely, If a white is physically assaulted, verbally assaulted with racist speech, we had damn well expect the perpetrator to be arrested with a Hate Crime and prosecuted. That, too, is the right thing to do.