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Originally Posted by Incognitas
I think Zingy is right too.I've been getting very worried by the way we always instantly look to see if violence is racially motivated before we acknowledge that it is a crime.Sometimes GBH is GBH and murder is murder and ethnic origins can be totally incidental.
I'm worried that we think a racially motivated crime is worse than a non racially motivated crime.All crime is bad surely and not to be tolerated.  |
I personally think that a crime should be treated as a crime. The cause is irrelevant.
That article appears to be presenting this crime as racially motivated, but what if the racial comment was just a shout expressing anger? The Asian guy was drunk (which does bring out whatever violent tendencies anyone has), and he had already fought with the victim. It's entirely possible that he just shouted the first thing thing that came into his head as an insult without meaning anything racist by it
That's not to say I am defending the Asian guy. He got drunk. He had a fight. He killed someone, so he is in the wrong, and should be punished.