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Re: The real problem with hate crime legislation
Oh, sharp and cutting: Doonesbury-like. Does that mean that your
worldview is Millard Filmorish? And does categorizing worldviews as
cartoons appreciably advance discussion of important issues?
I always did have more questions than answers.
dlae goble
moscow
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Briana LeClaire wrote:
> Professor Goble, I realize there is probably little I can say or do to
> change your Doonsbury-like worldview. However, for the record, it is
> my firm belief that the vast majority of those who dislike homosexual
> behavior, including Trent Lott and Pat Robertson, do not hate the
> people who engage in that behavior.
>
> As for those young "men" being pawns, I think they deserve much more
> credit for their acts than you're giving them.
>
> Yours, Briana
>
> Dale Goble <gobled@uidaho.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > is that it seldom reaches the purveyors of the hate. Hate crimes
> > legislation cannot punish Richard Butler and his Aryan Nations for the
> > crimes of The Order even though he created the moral climate within
> which
> > its crime were possible.
> >
> > Similarly, the Southern segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s such as
> > Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, and , created the moral climate within
> > which arson and murder were seen as legitimate acts to protect the
> morally
> > upright against the outsiders.
> >
> > The two young men in Laramie are also pawns who responded to a
> climate in
> > which gays are presented as attacking the family and thus as outside
> the
> > protection of God. The Trent Lotts and the Pat Robertsons may now
> > self-righteously wring their hands, but they are the people that
> effective
> > hate crimes legislation would jail for they are the purveyors of the
> hate
> > that produces the crimes.
> >
> >
> > Dale Goble
> > Moscow
> >
> >
> >
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