Hate Crime Laws Won’t Deliver Justice to AAPI Communities

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'Hate crime laws are successful only in that they deflect attention away from the true culprit: a capitalist empire that favors profit over life, that was built on and continues to perpetuate white supremacist dogma,' writes chelseynsanchez.

to the police due to language barriers, immigration status, or just general distrust of law enforcement. This, as well as the fact that the federal government doesn’t require every state to report its hate crime statistics, likely contributes to a vast undercount that muddies the national data.

When laws focus on punishment rather than reparation, it obscures what is a systemic issue into an individual one. “One question that we abolitionists ask ourselves is, What are the conditions under which it is more likely that people will resort to using violence and harm to solve problems?” said Ruth Wilson Gilmore, the iconic prison abolitionist and educator, onIf what we want is to end anti-Asian racism—indeed, all forms of racism—then we cannot expect hate crime laws to deliver us there.

 

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chelseynsanchez You are rediculous

chelseynsanchez Well all crume is hate but not all hate is crime

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