boomerang wrote:Rape is obviously based on gender (most of the time). But would they look at the rapsit life and say "he's had successful relationships with women so therefore he doesn't hate women and therefore it isn't a hate crime".
Do they do the same with other hate crimes? What if someone attacked someone because they were Hispanic? Would they look at the attacker and say "he's has Hispanic friends so this isn't a hate crime"?
How is the line drawn between a "crime" and "hate crime"?
It isn't an automatic thing. If person "A" kills person "B" who happens to be of another race/gender/religion the question that arises is "What was the motivation for this crime?".
If person A killed person B because they cut them off on the freeway and flipped them the bird while they did it, it isn't a hate crime (it's road rage).
If person B's race/religion/gender is the motivation then it would fall under the hate crimes area.
Use of derogatory racial, religious or gender terms during the commission of the crime could be an indicator of the motivation.
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