White Folks Victims of Hate Crime?
Posted by Duane Lester on Dec 14th, 2007 • 179 Clicks

Hate crimes.

What a silly concept. It’s nothing more than policing thought. The crime isn’t that they don’t like a person’s color, or race or sexual orientation. The crime is the crime, the walking on the rights of another. But there are “hate crimes” in America, and they don’t just apply to minorities:

Patrick Green and Robert Rothe told WBAL TV 11 News that they were antagonized and attacked after boarding the No. 64 bus late Monday night in south Baltimore.

The men, who are white, said the attackers yelled racial slurs and that no one on board, including the driver, stepped in to stop the attack. MTA surveillance cameras captured four men boarding the bus at the Hanover Street stop Monday night, moments before Green and Rothe got on.

Green and Rothe said they believe other passengers were afraid to help and that the driver refused to call for help.

If we are going to police the thoughts of people, we need to police the thoughts of all people, regardless of race. This clearly falls under the umbrella of hate crime. I wonder if it will be prosecuted as one.
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