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Originally Posted by Not Insane
And Hate crime = thought crime.  |
Nope. Thoughts are invisible to others, and cannot be criminalized. Hate crime must always be acts.
ALL crimes involve wrong thought, called 'criminal intent.' It's not a crime to hit you on the nose with my fist unless I intended to do so for a wrong reason. 'Hate crimes' are no different. If I punch you in the nose because I hate a protected group, then the punch, but not the hate, may be a hate crime.