What is a “hate crime?” Shoot up a school because you hate teachers or a courthouse because you hate lawyers: not a hate crime. Shoot up a senior-citizens center because you hate old people or a Chinese New Year’s parade because you hate Asians: a hate crime.[1]�
It would seem that well before Sept. 11, there was plenty of “hate” to go around. So much so that on Oct. 8, 2000, New York became the 44th state[2]� to enact a “hate crimes” statute.[3]� The statute “stiffens penalties for many crimes if they are motivated by bias against a victim’s race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability or age.”[4]�
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