[savagesusie]

"What kind of crime ISN'T a "hate" crime?"

That is the whole point. We are supposed to be equal under the law. By designating SOME things as "hate crimes", you are saying that some groups are protected and worth more than me or white heterosexual males. Hate crimes wreak of unconstitutionality.

[Bush2000]

That is the whole point. We are supposed to be equal under the law. By designating SOME things as "hate crimes", you are saying that some groups are protected and worth more than me or white heterosexual males. Hate crimes wreak of unconstitutionality.

That's one interpretation. But another interpretation is that gays and transgendered freaks have traditionally gotten the shit kicked out of them by white heterosexual males -- and therefore have cause for needing more protection.