From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 14:05:10 MDT
>From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>For those who haven't met him, Louis is my brother. We are
>identical mirror twins, but don't make the mistake of assuming
>that we probably have the same politics or attitudes. Despite
>some of the discussions around here, genetics don't dictate
>everything.
Judging from his first post, I like him already. ;)
>My point was that hate-crime laws are not equal-rights laws. They
>do not give extra positive things to minorities. Instead, they
>give extra negative things to criminals. It would be more direct
>to argue whether criminals deserve these harsher sentences rather
>then to argue whether minorities deserve the "perks".
Hate crime laws are not equal-rights laws, they are special
treatment laws, or extra-rights laws.
>The original comment I was referencing claimed that hate crimes
>laws equaled extra rights for gays or blacks. Hate-crime laws
>were raised as an example of how gays are getting more rights than
>straights under equal-rights laws. My point was that these are not
>equal rights laws, they are tougher sentencing laws. They do not
>give anything to gays or blacks. They give something (negative)
>to convicted criminals.
They are extra rights, not equal rights, those who attack the
subjects of hate crime laws receive extra punishment.
If there not extra, get rid of them.
Brian
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