A hate crime is the mistaken belief that crimes committed against special interest groups (e.g. homosexuals, ethnic minorities etc) are somehow worse than the same crimes committed against anybody else, and therefore should be punished more severely. Another example of the insanity of how easy it is to manipulate society

Edited by Park Road (06 Apr 2018 4.34pm)

I believe the courts take into account previous convictions. I attended court to support a mate saw a guy sent to prison just for forging his tax disc. He had a long history of violent street crime. His brief argued he had mended his ways and that he was now in education taking a computer course and the court should be lenient. The magistrate pointed out that he had used his new acquired skills to forge his car tax disc. In other words he had progressed from street crime to white collar crime and that is why he went down.

My mate on the other hand was told by his brief he was going down. He didn't as the same magistrate showed leniency as it was his first offense.

Unfairness in sentencing is often pointed out by the BME community but it is difficult to compare like for like as defendants will often have different previous convictions.

Edited by Badger11 (06 Apr 2018 8.28am)

Apparently you can't 'dislike' something nowadays....in our hyperbolic society you apparently 'hate' it. It's black and white, it's the death of nuance.

You are of course correct that the far left are all about 'protected classes' and the oppression/oppressor narrative.

These people are anti meritocracy and about equality of outcomes.

I think some of them are actually nice people and mean well, but I don't regard them as students of history.....others believe in utopias and just want to watch modern capitalism burn with all the terrible consequences that would come from that.

Edited by Stirlingsays (06 Apr 2018 9.53pm)

I'd say intelligent people understand both sides of an argument if they choose to consider them. Still, it must be observed that this doesn't mean that two intelligent people are going to always agree because many judgements are subjective and qualitative rather than quantitative.

Nice people are just nice people....Nice insomuch as they mean well, which isn't the same as being competent or necessarily correct.

I can think of examples in my own family of people I know mean well but they have just been indoctrinated by society's (media and education) very simplistic lessons.

Most of their viewpoints come from what they 'feel' is right rather than from any significant reflections or research upon the issues.

Why do we still not know the circumstances surrounding the death of Kevin Crehan in prison?

This guy died in late 2016 for crying out loud.

He did do an offensive act that required consequence (attaching bacon to Mosque doors, leaving bacon sandwiches there and graffiti). However, this was an offence more suitable to community service and a fine than prison.

But in a culture that convicts comedians for bad taste jokes this is the type of politically correct activist morons we currently have running the show.

This guy is dead and unless it's natural causes the so called justice system has some responsibility for that.

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I think this is the kind of stuff TR, is fighting against.

Video showing sharia law being taught in UK Islamic schools