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Re: Special Classes - slippery slope
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If we want to stop the assaults, the only real solution is to increase the penalty for ALL assaults. This way, we FORCE prosecutors to do something about the problem. Every assault is born out of disgust for something. I think we can all agree that assaults on sports officials (or other groups) simply shouldn't be tolerated by prosecutors. Just my opinion and I'm sticking to it ![]() Professors are attacked because.... White people are attacked because.... Thieves are attacked because.... Women are attacked because.... Isn't it plain that in the United States we have certain people who are targeted SIMPLY because they belong to a HIGH-PROFILE group? A white skin head in Jewish sections of Brooklyn is attacked because.... A black "gangsta" is attacked in Jasper, Texas, because.... A football official is attacked after a game where his call went against the home team because.... Or, look at it this way: In general: Professors, white people, thieves, drunks, teachers, nerds, etc., are not HATED because they belong to those categories. That is, an INDIVIDUAL drunk may be hated (because he killed people in an accident), but he is not hated as a DRUNK but as a specific kind of drunk. Sports official are often hated because they are simply sports officials. Surely we can agree that some folks draw hard lines around ethic and racial lines. But it's not always the case. Example: Joe Childress, a black teacher, is attacked in a white neighborhood. It MIGHT be a simply mugging. It MIGHT be a hate crime. Let's determine which. If it's a simply mugging, punish for that. If it's a hate crime, punish more harshly, for that is the way to begin to add protection to everyone who ON THE SURFACE belongs to that group. Know'm sayin'? |
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