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Have posted a few links over at
seeingred about the attacks on Indian overseas students here in Australia, which have included a petrol bomb and a stabbing that has left a student in critical condition. (I'd love to think the violence was just a Melbourne thing, but I'm very worried it's affecting more than one group of visible OS students and more than one city.) Anywho, for me, the most hopeful was The Age's report that the Victorian A-G is pushing for hate crime laws, which would increase sentences for crimes motivated by homophobia, sexism, and religious prejudice, as well as racism.
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Date: 2009-06-02 10:48 am (UTC)I believe that people should be made to answer for their actions. I don't believe that people should be made to answer for their thoughts.
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Date: 2009-06-02 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-02 11:05 am (UTC)OTOH, a hate crime affects far more people than just the victim of that crime - and it's intended to.
Hmm.
Isn't that the definition of an act of terrorism? As I understand it, a hate crime is one motivated by a dislike for the different. Whether anyone else is affected doesn't seem to have entered into it in the cases that I've read (which is, admittedly, a very small sample).
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Date: 2009-06-02 12:39 pm (UTC)