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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You mean historically they weren't treated in a way we (society) now realized was wrong. But the fact is the rapists have always treated them wrong. You're a bright guy, but the above is one of those things people post because they don't want to give up a point- and then realize a few days later they were wrong.
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It's obvious that rapists have always treated women wrong, but that utterly misses the point.
Given that rape is, by definition, something that can only involve a female victim, it's pretty strange to say that it should also be charged as a hate crime because it's a crime against a woman.
The fundamental issue in hate crime legislation is whether a crime is directed at an individual or at a group. Rape can be a hate crime when it's directed at terrorizing a group -- or even genocide, as with the rape of Bosnian Muslims. But is a man who commits a date rape motivated by his bias towards all women? It seems that virtually all legislatures who have made a decision on this have taken the view that, no, he is not.
