source, whole story <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nI would like to see us consider renaming this phenomenon called “hate crime.” The term is too simplistic, using only a few letters and syllables, and the exact meaning of those words does not reflect what a “hate crime” really is. Therefore, slack jawed morons such as Steve Russell, put the overt meaing of the words (“Hate” and “Crime”) together and come up with the most dumb-ass incorrect interpretations possible and then go off about it like they are being personally harmed.<\/p>\n
All violent crimes are bad. But when the motive of a violent (or other nasty) crime is because the victim is the member of some category of person, then all other members of that category are terrorized, even a little, by that criminal act. That makes the crime a hate crime. If I knock you on the head with a hammer because I hate you, that’s assault. If I knock you on the head with a hammer becasue you are a Jew, then that is assault on you and an indirect act of nastiness against all who are Jewish, because they might be my next victim, because if I am glorified by the right wing press or just merely featured in the news, other hate filled sickos may follow suit, because this particular act might be part of a larger anti-group (in this hypothetical case Jews) conspiracy or movement of some kind.<\/p>\n
That is what a hat crime is. But, I can tell you that there is a near perfect correspondence between being against hate crime legislation and not knowing what a hate crime is. And, there is a correlation between those two tings and being a dumbass. And, there is a correlation between those three things and being a Republican right winger fundie.<\/p>\n
A group. A hateful, hating, and in my view hate-worthy group. Members of which I will not hit on the head with a hammer, but if someone does because of who you are, I would certainly hope that there are hate crime laws in place to protect your collective sorry worthless asses.<\/p>\n
Hat Tip: Aseem Nevrekar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Or at least that is what we may infer from the recent legislative activity in one of America’s most socially backwards states, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Aq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}