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• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, technically this seems to have been a hate crime as well - just not of a “protected class” (which I’m sure is a “shortcoming” of the law that they’ll get “addressed”).

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  • optissima@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Technically, hate crimes consist of crime because of innate properties of an individual (+religion), which again this isn’t. No doubt they’ll codify something special for the rich soon, but still not a hate crime.

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    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s that religion exception that belies the idea that it’s solely about qualities of a person that they have no control over. Beliefs are beliefs, regardless if they’re related to religion or capitalism.

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “Capitalist” isn’t a protected class, and I don’t think that hate crime legislation is very strong in the US in any case.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My point is, you don’t get away with killing someone just because you used a car to do so, and I think that proves my point.

  Feel free to come up with some evidence of your own.

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  • optissima@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Getting away is not the point, the point is a lighter sentence.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the point is a lighter sentence

      Didn’t work for the example above, did it?

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