downbeatplumb ' Wrote: I always wondered why race made things worse.
Someone getting hit is someone getting hit, the hitter will always have some motive which may not instantly be obvious. What matters is the action not the motive.
It's not that its worse. No one insinuated that. But it has more connotations if a bunch of asian (muslim) men are doing targeted attacks like this than if they were attacking just for his phone or typical yobo stuff. It strikes me as terribly naive for someone to say "I don't see how race makes it worse". The same response wouldn't be given if it was a bunch of KKK members beating down on black people in the US I'm sure. Let's be real, it's more than a little different when race/religion or any kind of targeting like this is done. Why? Because it highlights a much deeper undercurrent of hatred, whereas just opportunistically attacking for other reasons doesn't necessarily have that. So no, motives do matter. Pretty stupid to say otherwise IMO.
