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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
I don't know much about UK law, but in the US they BOTH would have got fined and released (if even arrested at all).
I'm a "less law the better" kind of guy, but people who were committing disproportional crimes were essentially getting off due to lack of any type of law to describe their actions (and I still insist Tagger_X and Hitler's 'lil Helper did not commit the same type of crime).
surely UK law is decades ahead of us poor colonial types. it wasn't all that long ago that discrimination was actually encouraged by the state here (and apparently still is in Louisiana).
besides, I don't think that we are seeing much abuse of the "hate crime laws" on the side of the police here. if they were, there would be a lot more nazi's seeking dates on http://www.meet-an-inmate.com/ (as opposed to the mostly black male prison population). |
Oh believe me we are not light years ahead of you, we have our fair share of politically correct bullshit laws
If you assault someone for being Korean its a crime, simply because assault is a crime
The motivation, on the other hand, is racist not the act, so in my humble opinion keep the crime the same for all people and deal with the motive on sentencing
God knows, society is perfectly capable of dividing itself without governments passing laws to divide us even further
Nice to see we agree on violence being abhorrent, I deal with it all the time in the course of work and it still sickens me