Love and hate are the basic emotions of human beings. People have to express the love and hate for anything around their life. It occurs inside to each person because of envy and jealousy. One person can hate others because they do not have the same opinion; or simply that they do not like about something. From that point, they argue, and they get angry. They even use violence in order to solve problems. They may not like anything; however, if they take illegal actions, they will be a hate crime. Furthermore, can people burn a nation’s flag if they hate their country?
What is a hate crime? It is crimes who used negative actions, such as violence, or weapons to against what they do not like. In the world, there are many cases attacked and massacred because of a criminal discontent or hatred. Follow FBI, a hate crime is defined as an act to against racial, gender, religious, region, and politics. In the world's history, Adolf Hitler is typical of a hate crime of racism. Because of his thought that the Jewish were the enemy of the Germans, he decided to kill all the Jewish. A short-sighted thought of an individual killed about six million Jewish. Today, the common hate crimes are about society and politics. A society crime is a murderer. A political crime will organize protests, and they always want to against the
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In some democratic countries, personal's liberty is placed on top, for people think a personal's freedom does not have any boundaries. They have the right to speak and the right to express their emotions. Therefore, they will easily lose their minds because of contrary ideas. They are not able to restrain when they got any satisfied problems. For instance, citizens disagreed with government policy. If the government failed to produce a mutually satisfactory solution, they would immediately have protested. It can lead to chaos and reactions. They burn the national flag in order to express their
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 1998 there were over 7,755 hate crime incidents reported in America, which stemmed from people’s biased views towards people of different races (46.9%), sexual orientations (20.8%), religions (19.8%), ethnicity and (11.6%), and people with disabilities (0.9%). All 7,755 of the crimes were more than just violence; they were violence driven by hatred. They were hate crimes. The FBI defines a hate crime as a “a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias.” This is certainly the case of the murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie Wyoming.
Even before the start of WWII, Hitler and the Nazi’s had started the process of dehumanizing anyone they deemed as a threat the the Aryan race. Dehumanization is the “psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment,” (Maiese). The Holocaust is one the most recognizable examples of mass dehumanization and genocide. However, anti-semitism was around long before Hitler decided to use his power to discriminate against Jews.
In fact, burning the flag is an example of disorderly conduct. Burning the flag in a public event puts many people at risk of getting hurt. Burning a flag may not only hurt people but, it may also start a fire and ruin buildings. Also, it may be considered as an act of hatred causing people to act violently towards one another.
Some of these hate crimes are turning into murders and spreading very quickly. Hate crimes are like messages being sent out to certain people in different groups. These messages being sent out to these people are letting them know that they are unwelcome in a particular neighborhood , school ,
Capital punishment, especially in the face of hate crimes, is on the rise in the United States. With it comes the raised question: What crimes should elicit the death penalty? Moreover, is the death penalty even humane? Hate crimes are considered especially odious in the comparison of other crimes, therefore receiving harsher punitive measures than most other crimes. The proposal of issuing the death penalty in the face of hate crimes and incidents is steadily gaining popularity as well as harsher criticism against the overall humanity of capital punishment.
Hate crime What distinguishes a hate crime from other crimes is an underlying motivation based on the victim’s group membership. There has been much debate over the constitutionality of hate crime laws and which groups (if any) should be protected by such legislation. Those against hate crime laws argue that it is a violation of First Amendment protections of free, association, and freedom of thought. The Supreme Court confirmed that freedom of thought is implied by the First Amendment in R.A.V. v. St. Paul which those against hate crime laws argue makes such laws unconstitutional.
The offenses caused by these types of crimes can range from simple to aggravated assault, rape, and murder. However, it wasn't until late 1990’s early 2000’s that the federal government began to collect data on the quantity and kind of hate crimes being committed, and by whom. The offenders of these crimes are usually motivated to do them because of personal prejudice that is generated by the thought of people and things being a threat because they’re different. On the other hand, the victims are reluctant to report these crimes because of the fear of retaliation and because of the
Bandaid Bigotry A hate crime is an illegal act motivated by bigotry towards one or more of the various protected classes recognized by the American government. A hate crime conviction comes with much more stringent sentencing than crimes of a more banal source. Why have this labeling of some crimes as worse than others? Well, in a word: history.
A history of hate crimes have begun long before the 1900s, however, the arrival
In today's society, these acts of hate are sometimes done without total awareness. Usually this oppression is done by the majority, who experience some form of societal
History of Anti-Semitism can be summed up in these words of Raul Hilberg, “From the earliest days, from the fourth century, the sixth century, the missionaries of Christianity had said in effect to the Jews: ‘You may not live among us as Jews.’ The secular rulers who followed them from the late Middle Ages then decided: ‘You may not live among us,’ and the Nazis finally decreed: ‘You may not live.’” 2.2.1. Holocaust: Holocaust was a genocide of a Jews in which about 5.7 million Jews lost their lives apart from an approximately equal number of non-Jews throughout Nazi Germany and its occupied territories. Other victims of the genocide included Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, communists, soviet prisoners of war, people of color even the mentally and physically disabled.
There are a few factors that contribute to this statement. The first factor is the fact that “murder is murder” (citation). This means that a person who commits murder in a state with a hate crime law would get the same punishment as a person who commits murder in a state without a hate crime law because the crime is the same. The intent does not change that the person committed a crime. Another factor is having to prove the motivation for the crime.
Hate is a very strong subject throughout The Power of One. There is the hate that the boys at the boarding school had for Peekay, there was the hate that everyone had for Afrikaners, and there was also the hate that people had for each other in general. In an article I read about hate by Frank McAndrew, he talks about how hate is always the lead story on the evening news because everyone has so much of it. He talks about how we want to know if others have the same interests as us, and this helps determine our level of comfort, trust, loyalty, and cooperation, towards them. He also talks about how once we believe something, we continuously believe it and it’s hard to change our mind on that subject.
The discussion of hate crime has been very delicate over the past few months, from ISIS to police brutality. In this paper situations involving hate crime will be discussed such as the background; history of hate crime like the holocaust; special groups and genders that get “hated” on such as blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, and Jews; examples of hate crime; prominent figures like Donald Trump and his anti- Muslim and anti-immigrant policies as well as news pieces of hate crime; groups for and against other races like the black lives matter movement; statistics of hate crime and hate groups in the U.S.; the argument that
A person should be able to say as they are pleased no matter who it may offend if there is no clear and present danger. However, that person should realize that there will be an opposing side and there is nothing that can be done about it. It is possible for hate speeches to turn into hate crimes, as that is highly unacceptable as it would be prohibited under my circumstances of allowing hate speech. When we allow hate speech who could it really be hurting when someone could easily oppose of it? If hate speech does cause extra violence then those who initiated the violence should be punished.