On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:12:45 -0700 (PDT), 1506 wrote:

On Aug 25, 1:29*pm, "Clive D. W. Feather" wrote:
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1506 wrote:
If I am mugged it is a crime. *If a homosexual is mugged it is a hate
crime.

False.

If a homosexual is mugged *because* she is homosexual, it is a hate
crime. If she is mugged because some low-life wants cash for his drug
habit, it is not a hate crime, just a crime.

When something happens to these people the usual assumptin is that it
happened because they are homosexual.

This is only the usual assumption among people who routinely regard others
not as unique individuals entitled to equal consideration, but as
undifferentiated members of a group which they can label (often with a
label that has - in the eyes of the labeller - negative overtones).

The act of giving someone such a group-label always reveals the prejudice
of the person doing the labelling, and hardly ever adds any valid and
useful information about the individual who is being labelled.

See, e.g.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14679657