Is a hate speech based on race a crime in New York?
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In the United States a citizen has a right to voice their opinion. This is called Freedom of Speech and unfortunately you cannot do much about it.  If that person were to infringe on your rights, or commit an act of violence because of your nationality/creed it would be a hate crime.  The best thing to do is to keep on going and ignore their hateful comments.  If you let an idiot affect you, what have you become?  an idiot.  So don't let these people get beneath your skin because thats what they want.  If you take steps to silence this person, well that would be infringing on their rights, so its best to just ignore them and move on.
256433
First, they're called "hate crimes law" not "anti-hate crime laws."  Second, Boston is a city in the state of Massachusetts, and as a city is not empowered with the ability to pass such legislation.\n\nMassachusetts does have a hate crimes law.  It encompasses hate crimes based on a "person's race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability."  The entire law is linked below.
148281
I move to the south a year ago, after living in NYC all my life. I have expirienced racism in both places I don't want to get specific about the incidents. But I feel that in NYC it's more in your face as oppose to the south, where it's round and about. In NYC you know where you stand with someone, in the south it's just fake, all fake. You can treat someone O.K. and find out later of things they would say about you. I guess you can get that sort of behavior from anyone anywhere I just experienced it more coming to the south.\n\n(Someone not SMILING at you may be them treating you with disgust, but it's not racism. Someone accusing you of theft after you have purchased the item in their store and contacting the police and falsly having you thrown in jail is racism. DON"T GET IT TWISTED......)
1085269
none of them is racism in fact its respect if you ask or show interest about somebodies else culture or race of course in good understanding because every word can be misunderstanded if you want to.\nRegarding hatred of illegal immigrants thats more of patriotism or nationalism because first of all they are breaking the law. The word explains its self "ILLEGAL" it means they are already commiting crime in your country.\nI see no racism in your description
841796
Although we have free speech in America if our speech incites a riot or if it is reasonable to assume that what you say could incite others to do harm or break the law then there can be legal repercussions.  The reason this so seldom happens though is because it has to be proved that the actions of others were the direct and sole result of the words or actions of another and this can be hard to do.
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They vary from state to state.  Not all states have "hate crime" laws.\n\nGenerally, hate-crime laws don't make anything illegal, they just provide for longer sentenses.\n\nThe acid test is whether or not the crime was motivated by hatred for a particular group, but, as I said, it still has to be a crime.\n\nFor example, if you beat somebody with a baseball bat (not that I'm suggesting it).  You would be chared with assault, battery and possibly murder, attempted murder or manslaughter.  If the prosecutor feels that he can prove that you did it because the victim was Black, he could elect to prosecute it as a "hate crime".\n\nThis is unusual however, because if you are charged with the hate-crime form of battery, and the prosecution is not able to prove that it was motivated by hatred for a particular group, you might be aquitted even if it is proven that you committed the crime.  It is VERY risky to charge people in that way. (see the Rodney King case for example)
461665
NO! It should never be illegal to insult anyone about anything! Freedom of speech!
84090
i do not think there is anything by that name in the US. There is a bill by that name currently in Parliament in the UK.\nit (a) creates offences involving stirring up hatred against persons on\nreligious grounds, and\n(b) amends provisions relating to offences involving stirring up hatred\nagainst persons on racial grounds.
786256
It depends where you live. Here in the UK, a racist murder against a white person goes largely unreported, whereas a racist murder against a person from an ethnic minority gets plastered all over the news.
874247
As a prior resident of Oneonta, New York, it was forbidden to have air guns, cap guns, or any guns excluding the use of police weaponry.\nMy brother was ticketed while shooting an annoying squirrl (which he missed), but he happened to do it as a police officer drove by.\nSo to answer your questiomn, it is illegal by the State of New York to hold any harmful weapon of any kind in ones pocession.\nSo if you have one, don't tell anybody. Or throw it away. \nYou can et a big ticket like my brother Jeffery the 2nd.\n\nGood Night!
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Nervy of them, I'd say...I live in Leimert Park (I'm 50 and white) and find it pretty racist for them to assume (and you KNOW what they were thinking) that because it was a white MAN with a black WOMAN that something suspect, and perhaps commercial, might be afoot.  I doubt the same approach would have been taken with a same race-couple, or even a black MAN with a white WOMAN.  But what can you do in this ignorant world?
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If the action committed is already a crime why should it be more of a crime based on the identity of the victim ?  Does a person of color have more rights than a white male ? I limit the question to white males because the last time I read anything on the subject there had been exactly zero cases of "race" crimes filed against any person of color in America.  It seems that you must be a white male to commit a race crime.\n\nThese types of laws only further racism in America.
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anyone would be here !!!!!!!!\n\nwell i have three links one of them has the race population in jail which clearly shows an  increase in the lattest years of immiantes from the white race which has surpassed the black population today :\n\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/jailracetab.htm\n\nthe second one is about the hate crimes commited agains hispanics which indicate huge numbers :\n\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/hcrvp.htm\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/hcrvp.pdf\n\nand i have a tird one is about crimes commited against hispanics which indicates two things that it luckily has drop and that unfortunelly : \n\n*  9% of Hispanic victims stated that\nthe offender was an intimate, while\n34% described the offender as a\nfriend or acquaintance. \n\nmeaning that most of the time the criminal knows the victim and knows how likely the victim is to report the crime :\n\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/hvvc00.htm\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/hvvc00.txt\n\nnote : most people do not seem to release that :\n1.\n as u said the crimes which are commited by those undesirables are commited against victims which cannot defend themselves usually or are afraid of doing so . \n\n2. \n than a legalization would make the real criminals think twice before commiting any crimes against them . therefor the crime rate would drop and the real criminals would be easier to capture once they are nto able to hide between those whose only desire is to work and to better their lives by doing so ( not by commiting crimes and abusing others ) .
763496
thats it ... stir the hate pot ... next time anyone commits a crime i say deport the whole race including pink bigots ..
795223
Less then the NAACP would want you to believe. I live in Jersey and when the scandal broke we all questioned one thing. Almost everyone complaining of racial profiling was found to be in the act of violating the LAW.... Drugs, Guns, you name it......
1113421
Yes, he was being racist. Unfortunately, people do not treat others in the way that they themselves want to be treated. His point has nothing to do with you, and is likely the result of the frustration he was feeling because of his alien status and the recent immigration ballyhoo. No he isnt worth you going to jail. Why dont people realize that they are being racially insensitive when comments like his are being made? Racism is not the one way street that most people believe it to be, and it is often an excuse for poor behavior.
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In lawful sense it kinda has.  Except for affirmative action, there isn't anything sanctioned by the state that gives a race a right over another race.\n\nIn a societal sense, no.  People are who they are and racism comes from all races towards all races.  Deragatory terms abound for races and are justified by the people that use them.  My own latino race has disappointed me in the fact that I have heard more racist comments from the latinos I have been surrounded by more than any other races I have had involvement with in the past.  But no, I believe it will never truly end (in that sense).  We each have to do our own part and at least be able to continue to create a world intolerant of racism.