Posted on 05/22/2022 5:18:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
News reports are crackling with the breathless announcement that the Buffalo shooter, Payton Gendron, is also being charged as the perpetrator of a hate crime — in addition to ten counts of murder in the first degree. I could practically hear the buttons popping off the shirts of the nauseatingly self-important "officials" who made this call.
Had Mr. Gendron merely wanted to steal the wallets from the victims of his shooting spree, would the crime be any less heinous?
Emanating from this absurdity is the farcical nature of so much of the legislation that is promoted as problem-solving. The news media are in on the scam. In addition to actual news, they are constantly broadcasting the pained utterances of the surviving friends and relatives of unfortunate victims. Grief is not news...but it is a useful and contagious emotion.
I have often mused that if I were president, I'd create a new Cabinet position — secretary of the Department of Fatuous Gestures. Within its purview would be such pointless posturing as hate crimes, gun-free zones (as if criminals are inclined to obey rules), and the War on Drugs. (Remember that? Drugs won.)
Whenever a horrible crime is committed, and hate is added to the charges, I just can't help but smirk. "Why bother?" I ask. Murder, assault, robbery, etc. should already have substantial penalties attached to their conviction. Hate is nothing more than a state of mind, often occurring without causing any physical action. Also, criminal acts seldom, if ever, occur between individuals who are actually fond of each other. "What about domestic violence?" you may ask...but in those cases, love is no longer a significant component. Frustration, resentment, jealousy, and proximity are the real factors.
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They are THE “existential threat” to our country, our Constitution, our freedoms, and our very lives.
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All of which was/is the motivation for my tagline!
I’m good with that.
What's not clear to me is if these crimes were all prosecuted as hate crimes and whether convictions were received.
If you scroll down, it appears that 21% of the perps were black. So it seems that the hate crime laws might be working against minorities. But it looks like it is making a protected class out of sexual orientation.
Add “discrimination” and start a list.
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Yep, that’s another form of politically incorrect behavior that could in certain cases be considered a virtue.
Page not found on the DOJ website. They took it down?
It looks like they moved it.
The orginial url said ../hate-statistics
Now it’s ../hate-crime-statistics
Of course, while this FBI reporting tells you that black offenders are being charged with proportionally more hate crimes. It doesn’t capture whether there is bias in naming the crime a “hate crime”.
Blacks could be committing 35% of hate crimes but not being charged as often as white offenders.
Alternatively the bias could go in the other direction. The cops/prosecutors could charge blacks more often relative to the crimes they commit. One possible motive for doing so is that they think the hate crime laws will be applied in a discriminatory fashion and therefore they introduce bias to compensate for their expectation of bias.
Clearly I’m over thinking this.
It is the criminalization of thought. Once an emotion is illegal it is over. We are so screwed.
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