For every yin there's a yang, no? For every plus there's a minus, no? For every good there's an evil, no? So, why shouldn't there be love crimes for every hate crime?
Well, no. Love crimes are only punishable by a face slap or a firm adieu.
The whole concept of "hate crimes" is an absurdity cooked up by minorities who pretend to believe that every insult, every malocchio, every slight infraction constitutes a crime of hate and must be punished by more severe retributive justice than your run of the mill, average crime.
Thus, if one gets knocked to the ground by a mugger who punches one's face, kicks one's ribs, steals one's wallet but who never says a word in the process, that's just a crime. If someone is tripped and falls and the tripper says, "Take that, you filthy honkie!" then the tripper has committed a hate crime.
Go figure.
It's all silliness, politically correct silliness that has the potential of condemning people to much longer prison terms than they deserve and, when they reach prison, woe unto them when other inmates learn they committed a crime of hate!
That's almost as horrendous as being a child molester and they will be manhandled accordingly.
Where is the ACLU when you need them?
Chances are that someday hate crime laws will be declared unconstitutional since they are targeted laws written and passed to mollify certain segments of the population spelled out in Wikipedia as "racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, or political affiliation."
With all those categories, hate crime rates occurred at the rate of 47 per every 100,000 people through 2006, hardly epidemic proportions even though hate crime laws were on the books in at least 45 states.
Numbers aren't in as yet on the effects of the 2009 federal Hate Crime Law, actually a Gay Rights law, but they can be expected to skyrocket after the president signed it last October.
The law was attached to a defense authorizations bill to insure passage and was named after murdered homosexual, Matthew Shepard and murdered African-American, James Byrd, Jr.
Hate crime legislation is on a par with banning words such as "nigger" and now "retarded" from the English language. They are all redundant restrictions since actual crimes are already covered and prosecuted.
As the old rhyme went, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never harm me."
What is harmful is the inevitable abuse and misuse of laws as recently happened in Missouri. Two students at the University of Missouri-Columbia were suspended after their arrest for "symbolic violence."
Their "crime?" Suspicion of committing a "felony hate crime" by tossing cotton balls on the lawn and near the door of the campus black culture center.
Black students suffered that symbolic violence by being subjected to reminders of cotton picking on plantations a century and a half ago. Lord only knows how many of those students are more than a century and a half old and how they would have reacted to the symbolic violence of having the trees in front of their cultural center toilet-papered!
