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The MAGA hat is not patriotic. It is a symbol of being a Trump fan.
America was MORE great before Trump came on the scene. All he has done is sow division and hate. Many of his supporters, especially those wearing the MAGA hats, espouse the same.
You must be reading “revised history.” The Emancipation Proclamation was enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The last politician espousing White Supremacy was George Wallace.
Actually, deep down Donald Trump is a White Supremacist.
Per the bolded --- So now you're a mind reader?
You must be a mind reader because you have no proof to back up your bogus assertion.
Assault is Assault and it's a crime. Not sure why we have to have a separate category of assaults for "hate crimes." Judges already have discretion in the sentencing phase to adjust the punishment of those who's motives are revealed to be bigoted.
I'm a Trump supporter who wears my hat around but it's not a hate crime, just an act of political violence. A hate crime is against someone's unchangable characteristics like race, ethnicity, gender, etc (though Caitlin Jenner beleives gender can be changed.....)
I would say no, but only because I don't believe in the concept of "hate crime" laws to begin with. If we're going to have hate crime laws though, perhaps it should apply to people who are assaulted due to wearing a political logo as well, so I'll answer yes...as long as their are hate crime laws it ought to be covered.
NOTHING should be a "hate crime". The concept of a hate crime deals with some thoughts which are considered unacceptable and therefore illegal. If someone has that thought while committing an encroachment upon the rights or property of another, punish them for their encroachment, but NEVER, in a free country where we have natural rights including the right to own our own body, mind and thoughts, punish a person for what they think or believe. To do so is antithetical to LIBERTY.
But then again, that's just MY opinion, for what it's worth.
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I would say no, but only because I don't believe in the concept of "hate crime" laws to begin with. If we're going to have hate crime laws though, perhaps it should apply to people who are assaulted due to wearing a political logo as well, so I'll answer yes...as long as their are hate crime laws it ought to be covered.
Why does it only protect those wearing MAGA hats? What about Yes We Can pins etc?
You'll never convince me that "hate crimes" or "hate speech" are anything more than tools with which progressives try to bludgeon their critics with. There is just NO SUCH THING.
I would say no, but only because I don't believe in the concept of "hate crime" laws to begin with. If we're going to have hate crime laws though, perhaps it should apply to people who are assaulted due to wearing a political logo as well, so I'll answer yes...as long as their are hate crime laws it ought to be covered.
I disagree about the concept of hate crime's nonexistence, but I don't think wearing a MAGA hat constitutes a hate crime.
In fact, I believe no apparel anyone wears- a hajib, a Jewish skull cap or one of the Orthodox Jewish hats, a ball cap, a cowboy hat, or a fedora constitutes a hate crime. Neither does any other apparel item.
I believe everyone should be able wear anything they want unmolested and without being charged with a hate crime for wearing it.
The only limits I would impose are those for sanitary reasons and basic human decency.
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