Extension of justice for targeted minorities.

[zakubandit]

Hate crimes are bull****. Punish the crime, not the motivation. Murdering a gay person should hold the same penalty as murdering a straight person - the death penalty.

Thank you. All the minority defense policies are crap. So black guy and white guy get in a fight, white guy wins black guy dies. He is charge for a race crime (as well as murder etc). Change it up, white guy dies...black guy is charged with murder....

Gay guy kills straight guy, murder
Straight guy kills gay guy, hate crime and murder

2 guys walk into a bar, a black guy and a hispanic gay guy attack them...white guys defend with a vengenace and beat them both senseless. White guys are seen and charged as hate crime offenders...


What the hell DID equality go? I don't get the same equal protection than a black, hispanic, asian, LGBT? Well **** on me. White is the new minority, we need our own hate crime laws.

I do not know whether the suggestion put-i.e. that Republicans court racists--is entirely true.

Who the **** is this Zevico guy and what planet did he grow up on? I know quite a few Republicans....obviously...and guess what Zev, they aren't all white. Matter of fact, the white ones aren't racist (as 2 I know have black wives) and they aren't all southerners (most of my current Republican friends are either from blue states or were democrats that got fed up and switched sides).

[Zevico]

I know that the republican party is not some crazed assortment of evil racist klanners. I know that it does not for the most part court racists. But I also know that some of its members have put forward some strange bills in the past, like the birth certificate bill. Now, that may be a birther vote strategy, and it may also be a birther/racist vote strategy. I'm not prepared to make a judgment on which. But--lacking any special knowledge of the Republican party--I probably did go too far there.

[zakubandit]

Well at least you have enough sense to admit your stupid. Dems have racists and religious zealots too, don't think they dont. Matter of fact, look at the blacks who voted for obama stirctly for being black. Isn't that considered racist? Or maybe the Panthers, they tend to lean far left and are quite racist themselves.

[Solomwi]

Got it. But it seems there's a bullet we have to bite then. Suppose that tomorrow we find somebody who played a part in the 9-11 terrorist operations. Would you argue that it should be irrelevant in the eyes of the law whether he wanted to strike against the ungodly Americans in the name of Allah, or rather just did it for financial gain?

Absolutely.