Discrimination Against Hate Crimes

race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender, disability, class, sexual orientation, and various other creeds. And yet through it all, one outlier seems to connect them all; the protection of the law. From slavery to anti-semitism, every moral boundary that has been universally defined, has been sanctioned from recurrence. Lastly, the only exceptions to this are refutable under the scope of bigotry. Another issue that can be substantially assuaged, is the matter of hate crimes between diverse groups within society. Hate crimes, contrary to the name, is not really about hatred, but rather about prejudice or bias. Definition differs from law to law, but can be accurately described as criminal conduct motivated by prejudice. The apparent

Bullying is, by far, the single most common practice of prejudice in the world, and it’s unfortunately propagated by the social construct of gender roles; a type of discrimination against sex and gender. As Jessie Klein, the author or The Bully Society, states, “In the absence of authentic self-expression and relationships, we become accustomed to the irrational foundation on which our lives are structured and accept some unacceptable ideas: that this is as good as it gets; that competition is better than cooperation; that things are more important than people; and that inequality makes more sense for a society than equality” (Klein 238). Thus, it’s the societal foundation that builds upon all prejudice and bias. Such, society is tasked with educating the masses and properly handling the various distances between groups. It’s when this relationship and checks and balances fails, does bullying grow rampant within society. From gay bashing to cyberbullying, white supremacy to violence against females; all forms of bullying were learned, not birthed. As Nelson Mandela puts it, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite”. In deduction, if prejudice can be linked to ignorance and that ignorance is used to fuel harm against others, it can be reasonably concluded that not only enforcing the rights of the individual can help; but in doing so will appropriate the masses with the proper ideology surrounding social groups of