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Originally Posted by spiderplant
I criticise it for specifying any characteristics. Why is threatening or abusive behaviour ever acceptable?
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It's not and it's against the law for someone to do this to anybody, as it should be.
I think that the Scottish legislators have recognised that certain members of society are more vulnerable to verbal & physical attack because of who they are.
Their hope is that this new law will make the perpetrators think twice before doing it or result in a more harsh sentence if the attack was in fact a hate crime.