My niece asked, "How come when someone attack or abuse someone else of the opposite race, it is called a 'Hate-Crime' but when the same action goes to someone of the same race, it is not?" in her class & was called a racist, but IS this question racist?
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I don't think it is always a hate crime. It depends on the situation and the intent. But to me it is not a racist question but an honest one.
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your question is not a racist question.in the u.s. people tend to use the 'race card'too often and this complicate matters.the african americans call each other the 'n'word all the time but if anyone else does,there's a march in dc.
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Sounds like a legitimate question to me. How long has that phrase been used to describe that type of crime? Does the Legislature use that phrase in any statutes? You could ask your representative how and why they arrived at that phrasing in the statutes. BTW, what race were the people who were crying "racist" ? I've a hunch that they were white people trying to prove they're not racist by "standing up for equality" and calling other people racist. As they say: "That's very white of you." Am i right?
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remember: this was asked in a school...political correct overrules everything.personally i dont see the difference in "hate crime" and crime its all illegal..the designation"hate crime" was just another way to keep 'race' in the forefront..
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I think I wasn't clear. I was asking about the little bastard.
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No it isn't, it's political correctness gone mad.
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I think you're right. It's all political -- it's all about taking sides, and not about truth at all. The little bastard is saying: I'm taking sides against racism, and the practice of using a special word for certain crimes is also against racism, therefore I'm in favor of that special word, and everybody who is against having a special word is against me. That sort of thing.
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It's more ethnicity than race (race being a failed concept), because under this definition it is cultural hatred, thus worthy of the label. The question isn't racist, although I find the concept of 'opposite races' rather difficult to understand.
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Not in my mind. Abuse is hateful to me, no matter the type.
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This question is not racist; it is asking why the boundary for the terminology 'hate crime' is set at race. The Criminal Code of Canada says a hate crime is committed to intimidate, harm or terrify not only a person, but an entire group of people to which the victim belongs. The victims are targeted for who they are, not because of anything they have done. Hate crimes involve intimidation, harassment, physical force or threat of physical force against a person, a family or a property. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/hatecrimes/ The term 'hate crime' is far from perfect to describe that whole dynamic and your niece was within her rights to try to clarify why 'hate' does not appear to be recognised in other crimes when it clearly exists. The person who called her a racist is deficient in understanding just what the definition of 'racist' is, and I hope that the teacher of the class sorted it out for everyone's edification.
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Putting down and abusing others is hurtful and wrong. I’ve read in your comments where you referred to the child whom you claimed was racist to your niece as a “bastard”. By referring to this child as a bastard, aren’t you doing the same thing that was done to your niece but in a different manner?
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The question is not a racist question, it is an honest question. The student that called your niece a racist is just misinformed. I hope for the sake of the class, they had a teacher with a good head and seized the opportunity to educate. I always say, you just can't put thess precious opportunites in a learning planner.
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I believe your niece was a bit misguided in her query. A hate crime is not necessarily designated as such simply because it was a white on black or black on white crime. There are many hate crimes that are perpetrated by someone of the same race as the victim. The gay college student, Matthew Shepard, who was killed in Wyoming was killed by people of the same race as he, but it was designated as a hate crime because they killed him because of his gay-ness not because of what color he was or wasn't. Perhaps explaining to your niece that there is a time and place for such questions would be appropriate. Sad but true, school is not the place. We have laws regarding "disrupting school" which can range from pulling a fire alarm to laughing at someone making faces. So to directly answer your question, I don't think your niece's question was particularly 'racist' as such, but perhaps one designed to provoke, even if the provocation was only discussion.
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