Technically, it goes against my 1st Amendment right of freedom of expression/speech and fundamentally against freedom of thought/opinion

Yeah I’ve never understood that

If you beat someone up for having a purple car, is that *less bad* than beating someone up for being black? Liberals would say it is, but there's really no logical reason why.

Why should I be given a worse sentence for having a certain opinion?

Obviously both are bad

As if other crimes are done out of love

“Local man attacked for being gay”

If only randomly assaulting someone was a crime

@NiceGuy the opinion should be protected by the first amendment one would think

shit, you'd probably get a longer sentence for being racist than for being a child molestor with this "hate crime" stuff

florida man: ____________

And if you commit a crime of violence towards someone, doesn't that imply hate already?

It's a redundancy

Hate crime reports didnt lose credibility after all those synagogue bomb threats ended up being from the Israeli kid

@Jordan - MD Exactly

child molestors get like 4 years it's a total joke
hate crimers probably get more than that

Muh "Premeditated by 1 second"

Oh that reminds me the Hate Crimers are playing at 9:30 club tomorrow

I think more and more people though are skeptical of these "hate crime" stories. So many of them have gone viral, then are proven to be fake.

@Perihelion - CA This case is super high profile though

@NiceGuy good.

Them being proven fake doesn't matter cause nobody reads past headlines

Although synagogue bomb threats were super high profile before they got found out

@TIDE You overestimate how retarded the average person is

People do notice this stuff

slowly, but they do

It’s already getting buried

The “attack” was plastered all over for a week, the “oh it was fake actually” was up for a day

this is how I judge news stories: how long it stays on the front page of Reddit

@ophiuchus fight the burial

AmRen has a hate crime hoax map which is full of these hoaxes, and they probably don't have the full list of the past few years.

that way I judge it with zero right wing bias

It’s baffling to me that people could read “the attackers screamed THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY NOW” and think “yeah this happened”

The Covington thing was actually on Reddit for days with people getting upvoted for saying that the kid was actually treated unfairly

Decent name for a rock group
"Fight the burial" lol

I swear people don’t go outside

After the burial @Jordan - MD

already a band

Reminder Pew news is bigger than any mainstream news show

True that^

@ophiuchus This so much. The original Reddit front page thread about Covington was about how trashy the kid was. Then, like two days later, everyone on Reddit was saying "wow, this is why we should wait for the facts to come out and not jump to conclusions". Wait for facts to come out? WTF was their to wait for? It was literally obvious in the original video that the kid was just standing there.

Lmao whitey smiled that's so horrible