Anything that White people do.
"In 2005, there were more than 645,000 victims of cross-racial violent crimes between blacks and whites in the U.S. In 90 percent of those crimes, black offenders attacked white victims."
The NAACP representative says thinks it occurred in Cincinnati (instead of Knoxville)
I know what a hate crime is, it’s stupid, and at its best is moronic symbolism and multi-culturalism run a muck. If you kill me or take a crap on my lawn, I am going to apply some logic and guess you didn’t do it because you liked me. If you did it because I was NDN or whatever, I couldn’t care less. All I want is for you to be brought to justice for killing me or hope that I have my mini-14 handy the next time you take a crap on my lawn.
I still cannot believe what those animals did to Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom has had no coverage in the MSM.
A hate crime must be a crime which is neither a love crime or an indifference crime.
Lack of rabble rousers. That's the reason. Don'tcha know that news is just entertainment in disguise.
Remember: once you make a particular Thought a crime, or even an "aggravating factor" in another more active crime (like rape), and claim to be able to determine its existence at trial, any unpopular thought can be criminalized.
Hence Orwell's 1984, which apparently doesn't get read or taken seriously any more, perhaps because the "prophecy" was "wrong" (or just ahead of schedule).
I don’t think the replies in this thread address the issue correctly.
While assault, battery, murder, whatever, should be treated equally in all circumstances, hates crimes are a different breed.
As I understand it, a hate crime is terrorism against a particular group - an act designed to intimidate and cause fear against a whole class of people. While the hate crimes laws may not be applied perfectly, it’s understandable why attempts are being made to curtail these actions.
The arguments made by other posters are simply that they give groups special “rights”. I don’t buy that. In order to show an action was terrorism against a group, the criminal act must be shown to reinforce a reasonable, preexisting perception of ferocity - like a “I could be next” - in the entire victim class.
For example, a serial murderer who goes after skinny people only because he *hates* skinny people would not typically be considered a hate crime because, in general, skinny people do not feel persecuted or threatened.
On the other hand, a member of the gay community - which already has a higher rate of being murder victims and is continually condemned for who they are by entire religions, governments, and neighborhoods - who is murdered for being what they are is a different crime. It can reignite fear in an entire group of people and could easily be considered terrorism.
*flame suit on*
The entire concept of “Hate” crime is stupid. It is a socialist-liberal invention to exagerate a crime’s impact for more sensational media coverage. The crime is the crime. Murder carries with it the highest punishment anyway. Hate crime is just a media defination that has been perverted into a crime exaggerator by liberals with the power to vote and make themselves feel good.
A good example of a hate crime: passing legislation which considers crimes against Democrat voting blocs to be more serious than crimes against non-Democrat voting blocs.
A hate crime is whatever the libs don’t want conservatives to do. Of course, a minority or jihadist can’t commmit such a crime.
Anyone who asks what is a hate crime, or questions the validity of hate crime as a type of criminality, has committed a hate crime. I’ve reported this author to the PC police.
Hate crime laws were created ONLY to give White Christian males more prison time for crimes that they commit against non-Whites, non-Christians and women. Prosecutors and police in EVERY state know this and always comply.
A hate crime is defined as an action that requires establishment of Federal police.