No Mere Hate Crime

FrontPage Magazine ^ | April 17, 2014 | Matthew Vadum

[Steely Tom]

That answers my planned question of what kind of attention this is getting in the old media.

None. Zero.

They can't use it to advance any of their agendas, so it's history.

[rightwingcrazy]

“It’s an Orwellian concept wherein the ideological component of an ordinary crime is singled out for special punishment over and above the underlying crime itself.”

I’m not sure that this is the best argument against the concept of “hate crimes”. What distinguishes “murder” from “manslaughter”, for example, other that the perpetrator’s state of mind?

[JimSEA]

Quite true but we’ve always attemptted to determine intent.

[heye2monn]

We need better education in this society. If the shooter had known about the stiff hate-crime penalties, he might not have done it.