Social Justice Warrior Confused That Black Racists Can Commit Hate Crimes
March 26, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262291/social-justice-warrior-confused-black-racists-can-daniel-greenfield Gregory Alfred set out to slash a bunch of white people because he blamed them for not letting him freely smoke pot. He did slash a 53-year-old woman. He told cops that he did it because she was white.
This incident led to some headscratching at Broadly, the Vice spinoff aimed at women. Gabby Bess, author of such pieces that are indistinguishable from parody, as...
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... is deeply confused by the whole thing and wrote an article titled, "Can You Commit a Hate Crime Against a White Person?" To be her bewilderment, Gabby discovers that it is not only possible, but legal.
"While it's intuitively shocking to see a black man tried for a hate crime, there's nothing within the law that precludes it," Gabby Bess writes. Someone ought to make a law.
"As defined by the state of New York, a hate crime occurs when a person "intentionally selects the person against whom the offense is committed or intended to be committed in whole or in substantial part because of a belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a person, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct."
"Under this definition, a member of a minority group can commit a hate crime against a member of a privileged group."
Under this definition. Under the reverse definition, black racism isn't racism, it's reverse racism and doesn't really exist. Which is good news for Louis Farrakhan, who doesn't exist.
Although the racial prejudice that would drive a white person to commit a hate crime against a black person is the same tension that would drive a black person to commit a hate crime against a white person, James Jacobs, a professor of constitutional law at New York University and the courts director for the Center for Research in Crime and Justice, confirms that the term goes both ways.
I'm not sure what function the "Although" part serves here. Maybe it signals the conviction that things shouldn't work this equally, but they do.
"There's nothing unusual about applying hate crime laws to black defendants who harbor racist motivations against their victims. That's never really been controversial," said Jacobs told Broadly over the phone.
Said Jacobs also told Broadly over the phone that he doesn't understand why this conversation is even happening. Also he pointed out that Broadly doesn't understand either racism or grammar.
