(January 5, 2017 at 3:29 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Oh I agree. Morally, it is equally terrible. But socially and as far as the law goes, I think hate crimes get a harsher penalty and are just seen as more evil.
Which would make misconstruing a hate crime as not a hate crime a completely irrelevant thing anywhere other than a court of law. When I hear someone say, "What they did was okay, because . . . " I'll believe people are defending them. I sincerely doubt anyone in this forum would do any such thing. All I see are a bunch of hard right wingnuts stretching a tragedy to try and make it seem like their arch enemies–the hard left wingnuts–are evil torture supporters. This rhetoric from both sides is what brought us Trump and Hillary. Thanks again, everyone.