You know - you may be right. At the least this guy should be in jail right now and under investigation. If it was racially motivated (which I am not certain of one way or the other), then another layer of punishment may be called for.
-Cameron On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > I can't quite agree with you there, Cam. I've known people who started > fights because they were drunk and had a chip on their shoulder and > I've known people who started fights because the other person was gay > or the wrong race. The first situation is motivated by stupidity and > the second is motivated by hate. Having known drunk idiots and having > known Skinheads (obviously those two categories are not mutually > exclusive), I'd say that I'd rather see the Skinheads punished more > severely. There is something fundamentally odious about attacking > someone because of their skin color or their sexuality and those > reasons are intrinsically intertwined with social behavior. I think we > need to acknowledge that and specifically call out the hate in these > crimes, label it and say "this shit has got to stop". > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348921 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
