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_AdjI_ posted...

As I mentioned earlier, the hate crime aspect is less relevant to the crime at hand and more relevant to determining how much of a threat they are to society (which should always be the primary consideration in sentencing somebody). Somebody shoots up a church because they were bullied by some of the congregants, they're going to have fewer potential future targets than somebody who shoots up the church because it was full of a certain type of people. The former is emotionally unstable, the latter is genocidal, meaning the latter is more dangerous.

Then you can remove the narrow definition specifying a hate crime and just punish people who act in this kind of way. The issue isn't targeting a protected class, it's the mindset of murdering a collective like it's a single, inhuman entity.
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Doctor Foxx posted...
The demonizing of soy has a lot to do with xenophobic ideas.