If when someone gets gay bashed or has racial slurs hurled at them
it's a hate crime- then calling a rape survivor names like wh*re is
a hate
crime/speech too.
I don't see any way that that is not true.
does anyone disagree with this?


"Last year the American Psychological Association issued the report
Hate Crimes Today: An Age-Old Foe in Modern Dress. In the report Dr.
Jack McDevitt, a criminologist, stated, "Hate crimes are message
crimes. They are different from other crimes in that the offender is
sending a message to members of a certain group that they are
unwelcome."
Preliminary research indicates that hate crimes have more serious
psychological effects than non-bias motivated crimes."
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hatecrimes.html

The dictionary defines a hate crime as

hate crime -orig. U.S., a crime, usually violent, motivated by
hatred or intolerance of another social group, esp. on the basis of
race or sexuality; crime of this type; freq. attrib. (occas. in
pl.), designating legislation, etc., framed to address such crime.

hate speech -orig. U.S., speech expressing hatred or intolerance of
other social groups, esp. on the basis of race or sexuality; hostile
verbal abuse (though the term is sometimes understood to encompass
written and non-verbal forms of expression).
Oxford English Dictionary

I just can't see how victim bashing wouldn't fit as a hate
crime/speech.
Any thoughts?

pixie