Hate Crimes Revisited

I've touched on this topic before, but we've reached a new level of absurdity.  Last week, four thugs in Chicago kidnapped and tortured a developmentally challenged young man and broadcast their crime on Facebook.  Leaving aside the stupidity of what they did by broadcasting it live on the internet, the crime is about as heinous as it gets:  They beat and cut the man up, using a box cutter to scalp him, in a way, and broadcast their misdeeds live on the internet.  Certainly, by any measure, these four miscreants committed crimes.

But the hang-up centers on whether the four should also be charged with a hate crime.  By virtue of the races involved -- the four criminals are black, the victim white -- there isn't enough to go on.  Yet in the video -- no one ever claimed these were criminal masterminds -- the criminals can be heard yelling, among other things, Fuck white people!  Given that the victim is white and the criminals black, that sure seems like enough with which to charge them with a hate crime.

Yet, the dithering began almost immediately.  The Chicago Police Department spokesman, when asked whether the four would be charged with hate crimes, equivocated.  Worse yet, however, was the reaction of the reliably tolerant -- when whites or police are the victims -- MSM, who bent over backwards in some quarters to explain why this crime wasn't inspired by racial hatred.

Foremost among the naysayers was Don Lemon of CNN, who didn't think what these four criminals did was evil.  No, he insisted, this wasn't evil.  It was, he averred, the product of bad home training.

Yes, you read that right. 

Bad home training.

Almost equally as obtuse was Symone Sanders, late of the failed Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and a CNN contributor.  Apparently, learning how to deflect reality into theory is a class taught at CNN, because Ms. Sanders used twisted logic to declare:  We can’t callously call things hate crime,” Sanders said. “Is this hate for Donald Trump or pure hate of white people? That matters.”

That's right, people, just because someone says Fuck white people doesn't mean there's hatred of white people involved. 

Of course, Ms. Sanders left herself wiggle room by stating that it has to be pure hate of white people, whatever that means (wouldn't it be impure?).  No, this could be tied to hatred of Donald Trump, and using this very convoluted logic, the four would be exempted from hate crime charges if they can tie their crimes to hatred of Donald Trump and not hatred of white people in general.

Isn't this getting just a little bit silly? 

But more importantly, when is it all right to charge a minority with a hate crime?  Would it have made any difference were the victim a fellow minority, say a Latino, and the criminals shouted Fuck Latinos?  Is there ever a scenario in which minorities -- blacks, specifically -- can be charged with hate crimes, or are they exempt somehow?

What certain people fail to realize is that if they want to be considered equals in society -- which, frankly, they are already -- they have to be equal not only with the good things but also with the bad things.  They can't pick and choose equality.  For whatever reason, they seem to want only the good things equality brings.  When things like this case occur, they must be held to the same standard as their white brethren.  The crime was a shameful and hideous example of man's inhumanity to man.

The attempts by these wannabe sociologists and criminologists are shameful and hideous examples of mans stupidity and idiocy toward their fellow man.

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