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I was sitting around tonight talking with friends and I was reminded of a radio program I heard a while back. The host posed a question to the audience. He talks of a scenario where a group of 3 armed white men kidnap and ultimately execute a group of 5 white black individuals and he leaves out any inference of motive or reasoning. He then asks his audience to call in and, based on those facts alone, assess whether or not it's a hate crime. Around 95% of the calls let in were from black folks and they all said yes, it's a hate crime. The other 5% said they needed more insight to render a verdits as it were. The host then cuts off all calls and explains the story. It's a true story in reverse...the 3 men were black and the 5 victims were white. He then re-opens the phones and most of the people who call in are trying to retain some sort of laughter at political correctness being caught in it's own bullshit. I may be wrong (though that's admitedly rare), but it almost seems like reverse racism. Hate crime laws are written rather broadly but they tend to have an emphasis on white on black crime or crimes against gays and jews. If you think about it, there's no such thing as a love crime...perhaps an assisted suicide of a terminally ill loved one, but that's it...so the words "hate" and "crime" are almost exclusively linked. You wouldn't commit a crime because you loved someone and if you hate someone enough chances are you'll commit some sort of crime against them. But the very fact that many of these laws discount (though don't totally eliminate) crimes NOT commited by whites spits in the very face of the equality such laws seek to reach. If a gay man kills or beats up a straight man for no other reason than that he's straight, is that a hate crime? Laws say yes, but I gaurantee no jury would convict him under a hate crime statute. so for these reasons you should all join with me in saying f@ck political correctness. I'll do what I want and say what I want so long as it isn't directed at an individual and I'll swear as often as I care to with no regard to others around me. This isn't a big change from the way I currently act, but I'm sick of people trying to tell me how to treat others.