26 August 1999
Q: In the wake of Benjamin
Smith, the cities of Urbana and Champaign voted on a hate-crime
resolution: "a resolution expressing outrage at and our community's
response to recent hate crimes." The resolution, effectively,
said that the city disapproved of hate crimes. It passed in Urbana.
It barely passed in Champaign. All it was
was a thing that said "we think hate crimes are bad." Why
did so many people vote against it?
A: According to the Chicago Tribune 25 August
99:
Advocates seek hate laws but can't prove they work
Critics say they [hate-crime laws] would create
new classes of victims, especially homosexuals. Even in states
that have enacted such laws, opponents have sought to exclude
sexual orientation as a category. Sidestepping the issue, 19 state
laws do not mention sexual preference. [in their hate-crime laws]
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George
Bush Junior opposes all such laws because:
"All crime is hate crime."
Newspoetry Algebra
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all crime =
drug use =
drug use = |
hate crime
hate crime
killing Jews |
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Bush Junior
= |
a Nazi |
