On Jul 13, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote: > On 10 Jul 2009, at 15:52, Charles Bennett wrote: >> If it were reversed, the FBI would already be there looking into >> civil rights charges against the attackers and there would already >> be protests. > > > If it were reversed, it'd be abuse against a persecuted minority. > Until you get rid of racism in the US, you're fucked for hate-crime > legislation.
Hate crimes laws vary a bit from state to state but I don't believe any contain any notion of "persecuted minority". They have the notion of 'protected characteristics' and one of those characteristics is race but this certainly doesn't mean that some races are protected and not others. I think Charles is asserting that as a matter of practical politics, the majority will not be protected by hate crime legislation. He may be right but that doesn't mean that the law couldn't be enforced to protect whites against blacks or straights against gays. -- A young idea is a beautiful and a fragile thing. Attack people, not ideas. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
