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I don't mean to stir up a hornet's nest, although this could do it.
But honestly: What purpose does it serve to have separate "hate crime" laws? If it's illegal to kill Matt Shepard or Martin Luther King, Jr., what difference does it make to prosecute it under Murder or Hate Crime statutes? Either way, the victim is still dead.
In the case of assaults, it's a crime either way, regardless of whether the gay/race/whatever gets dragged into it. So what purpose is surved by adding hate crime statutes? Or are they really just political window dressing to make politicians look sensitive to a popular issue?
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