""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw
While I understand the reasoning behind designating certain types of crimes as "hate crimes," I'm not sure the designation is productive. In reality a person who gets shot in a barroom brawl is just as dead as a person who gets shot for his skin color. His family is just as sad. Both shooters are murderers. Neither victim is more or less important or valuable than the other.
Your comment about "hoaxes begetting hoaxes" is dead on.
""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw
Lummy (06-29-2019)
"Hate crimes" are a contrived designation for federal intervention into states' jurisdictions that function to give Kennedy-Johnson civil rights bull$#@! a set of false teeth. It should all be repealed. Instead, it just gets more ridiculous. We are rotting away, and getting used to the stench.