This is the problem with the existence of “hate crime” legislation.
THINKING something is NOT the same as DOING something.
If I murder you, I am DOING something, and ought to be prosecuted...it does not matter if I murder you because you have something I want, or because you are have a certain color of skin, or because you cut me off in traffic....MURDER is wrong no matter WHO the victim is and no matter the motive.
What “hate crime” thinking does is add on a penalty, and indeed make it a crime to THINK something about a person—it is an attempt to criminalize thought...and that is Orwellian.
I know most of us here on FR realize that, but in case there are lurkers, noobs, or even trolls here that don’t realize the danger they’re creating by supporting such notions as “hate crime”, I want them to know.
When I began to see the insidious metastatic invasion of Political Correctness in our society, I became an enemy of it immediately.
There are many liberal precepts I despise (such as moral relativism and open immigration) but of all of them, Political Correctness seems the most offensive to me.
As in Orwell’s 1984, with political correctness today, they expect you to police yourself and censor yourself. That really eats at me.
Normal people DO censor themselves, but we do it based on our own values, not values impressed on us by a government or the lackeys who work in it.
Or as Cervantes puts it quoting a contemporary Spanish saying in his introduction to Don Quixote:
“under my cloak the king is a joke” (one translator - appropriate in other news today) which is more accurately translated “under my cloak I kill the king”
No one is subject to the king for what he thinks in his heart - until now.
“y estás en tu casa, donde eres señor de ella, como el rey de sus alcabalas, y sabes lo que comúnmente se dice, que debajo de mi manto, al rey mato.”
“thou art in thine own house and master of it as much as the king of his taxes and thou knowest the common saying, “Under my cloak I kill the king;”
now watch that get me audited or something...