Granny gets slapped with a hate crime for using her cane on gay man (laws, women)

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Originally Posted by doc1

Unless she's proven to be senile or have dementia, she needs to be punished.

You don't get a pass for assaulting someone because you're an old lady.

She's lucky that guy didn't beat the crap out here in self defense.

Which she would do, if, as the OP said, she was charged with assault.

[JobZombie]

An able bodied 25 year old so-called “man” couldn’t fend off or take a few feebly applied swipes from an old lady…and, and he was called a name in the process! A name! This so-called “man” had his feelings hurt. Awww. The old lady probably looked at him sideways too and should be charged with that as well.

[buddy5]

Originally Posted by Rakin

Funny....

A gay man calls a gay man a name and it's OK.

A Black man calls a black man the N word and it's OK.

If I use those words all of a sudden it becomes a racist, sexist, hate crime remark.

If you are a fat white heterosexual male, open season.

Originally Posted by saltine

.If she hit me and called me a motherf*&^r that too would be a hate crime since it's a true statement and slanders all of us motherf*&^rs? What if she had just called him a c0(#sucker would that too be a hate crime?

Is it slander if it's true?

Originally Posted by uggabugga

this is one of my big issues with 'hate crimes':

attack someone because of their color/sex/religion whatever while calling them an SOB: not a hate crime.

attack someone because of their color/sex/religion whatever while calling them a racial/ethnic religious slur: hate crime.

speech is being punished, not the violent action.

That's the thing with hate crimes, and PC in general, some have more rights than others.

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by BentBow

Isn't all physical violence a hate crime?

No. "Hate" defines the purpose/intent, not the crime itself. For example, a mugger doesn't hate you, but loves your Rolex.

[buddy5]

Originally Posted by Lucidkitty

By yelling slurs it falls under the definition of a hate crime.

99.99 out of 100 people in America has commited a hate crime.

[Neuling]

Her age should not play any role, if found guilty she should be punished just as if she were 30.

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Originally Posted by EinsteinsGhost

No. "Hate" defines the purpose/intent, not the crime itself. For example, a mugger doesn't hate you, but loves your Rolex.

Are you suggesting that there simply arent people in existence who dont like other people for no reason whatsoever?

Kinda goes against the fact that the vast majority of crimes are intra-racial, not inter-racial.

"hate crime' is a spurious non-law simply made to enrich lawyers and define and establish a discriminatory hierarchy of humans.

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by Neuling

Her age should not play any role, if found guilty she should be punished just as if she were 30.

If the victims sexual orientation matters, why shouldn't her age?

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Originally Posted by Neuling

Her age should not play any role, if found guilty she should be punished just as if she were 30.

Yes, but we all know that wont happen. For the same reason her without reasonable justification assault cant be treated simply as without reasonable justification assault.

[Gorfml]

cuz age only applies if she is a minor or adult. DUH...