Hate Crime Laws Abolition Bill

[Filuwaúrdjan]

While I don't like the idea of someone getting a longer sentance for, say, murder, simply because a crime is racially motivated is an especially good or clever idea, I do think that it's important to keep track of the number of racially motivated crimes and would like something doing that added to the bill.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I still fail to see why we need to keep data on that.

Because it's important to keep track of serious racial tensions

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I disagree; racism and hatred are protected by freedom of thought and speech.

Simply keeping a list of how many crimes in a certain area were racially motivated does not trample on anyones constitutional rights.

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I'm not suggesting a worse sentence

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The government keeps track of a lot of statistics and publishes a lot of them. For good reason; people need to know these things.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'm aware that it does not trample anyone's rights directly, but keeping track of 'racial tensions' in certain areas strikes me as ripe for abuse if done improperly.

But not monitoring that situation would be a gross failure of Government's duty to protect the people. If you don't bother to watch this sort of thing you end up with things spiralling out of control, and before you know what's hit you, you get riots.
At the same time I think a black familiy is entitled to know if the community they're about to move to has a serious problem with racially motivated crimes.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Aye

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Good idea actually

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Aye

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Aye