Monday, May 09, 2005

Fake Hate

Here's an interesting blog post by La Shawn Barber about fake hate crimes.  We had a big fake hate crime at a college here in Illinois recently.  Turned out the racist messages sent to young black women... were from another young black woman... who was homesick.

I agree with LSB that having laws against "hate crimes" is a bad idea.  But put that aside.  Here's my question: is a fake hate crime, still a hate crime?

Just because I scrawl racist threats, it's not really a hate crime unless I mean it, is it?

As for the real stuff,
There's more than enough.
But some still make
Hate that's fake.

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