Hate crimes are usually not solo charges. They’re add-ons to regular criminal violence. It’s similar to how selling drugs is a crime, but also selling drugs near a school is a separate charge. You would never be charged with selling drugs near a school but not charged for selling drugs.
A hate crime is specifically crime that was motivated by hate for that group. Getting into a fight about something unrelated to that isn’t a hate crime, whether or not you knew they were a member of that group ahead of time.
Not nitpick but first of all great answer. no sarcasm. But if I go into a known nazi/skinhead bar and start fighting them because they are Nazi’s is that a hate crime? Even though their whole thing is hate, we fought a war against them, and are generally despised?
Nazis are not a protected class yet.
yet
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No, it’s not a protected characteristic because being a nazi isn’t innate.
