3 muslims gunned down in Chapel Hill. "Hate crime"

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Re: 3 muslims gunned down in Chapel Hill. “Hate crime”

@psyah

Not that parking rage is an excuse … It is still illegal to kill your neighbours. I would argue that hate crime or not these are semantics and distract from the actual killings. He is a murderer and whether is motivated by hate, parking rage, insanity - all three - mean he is likely to do it again so for that reason he should be sentenced hard in any case.

It is more than semantics. If you don’t call it a hate crime, you are failing to acknowledge the underlying prejudice. If it is a hate crime ( which I personally think it is ), it has to be tried as such, so others who hold such prejudicial views take it as a warning. And it raises awareness about the things Muslims go through on a day to day basis.