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Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
March 9, 2006 - 01:53 AM
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I am writing a paper on hate crimes and civil rights in America. If you know anyone that has gone through discrimination or has experienced this please write to me about it. This is a major problem and i think more people need to realize how dangerous and how very real hate crimes are. Thanks a lot. ~jess
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
March 9, 2006 - 08:40 AM
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Why do you hate civil right in American ?
Do you feel it is not true or what it lack ?
crime often makes people hate. Because they disturb and endanger to peaceful societies.
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
March 10, 2006 - 01:06 AM
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I don't hate civil; rights. they have helped so many people against discrimintion, however, i think that some of the laws could be stronger. Hate crimes are crimes commited against people because of their race, sexual orientation, ect.
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
March 10, 2006 - 03:42 AM
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why not expand your issue to hate crimes around the globe - the US is really notat all the highest in this regard.
However white supremacy groups are starting to re-group in Germany now - even with seats in Parlement - and also in Russia there are roving gangs.
As will the entire situaiton in Darfur - and ALL of the hate crimes going back and forth in Iraqbetween the Shia and Sunni.
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
March 13, 2006 - 01:53 AM
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My assignment is specifically for the US. I plan on doing other hate crimes around the world as a branch off after I finish the first one on the US. Right now I just need ideas for the US before I move on to others. Thanx
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
March 13, 2006 - 04:14 AM
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I think homosexuals are probably the most vitims of hate crimes at this point. Racial crimes have gone down quite a bit.
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
March 14, 2006 - 11:39 AM
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I agree. I have friends that are of different ethnicities and they dont go through half the bs that my lesbian, gay and bisexual friends do. Someone went up to my one friend and said a lot of hurtfull things then kept stalking her around until she finally called me to get her because she was afraid they were going to do something to her. One of my gay friends has been the victim of many ambushes from people that just dont understand what they go through. Its really sad and its why i want to write about it.
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
May 14, 2006 - 07:30 AM
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Homosexuals are the ones who have hate crimes committed against them. I recently did a presentation about homosexuals and I was astounded at what I found. (Mind you, I don't remember every single fact) It was like 75%(or something like that) of hate crimes are committed against gays. And it doesn't help that the president doesn't like gays. :-(
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bullying as a hate crime
May 16, 2006 - 08:16 AM
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For the last five years I have been working as a school social worker with children in Kindergarten through Fourth grades (ages approximately 5-10 yrs old). In response to hate crimes in the US, I would suggest that a very academically interesting and solid arguement could be made that bullying represents a very frequent form of hate crime in the US. Using my very non-articulate definition of a hate crime, as violence or other act committed out of disrespect/dislike for another person due to a perceived difference and intolerance for this difference, I think that bullying can fit nicely into that defintion. Although, you are certainly free to disagree with me.
From both my observations, personal experiences, and accounts relayed to me by children victims, I believe that most bullying happens because of a perceived difference between the victim and the perpetrator. For example, kids get bullied because of not wearing the right clothes, not hanging out with the right friends, being too "smart" or too "dumb," lacking appropriate social skills, difficulties in athletics, etc. In other words, victims do not match up with a non-spoken yet understood definition of "normal." If you consider traditional hate crime victims, you see that technically this is the same situation. In some peoples' minds, homosexuals for example, stray from the socially acceptable definition of "normal" and therefore open themselves up to hate crimes in the same way the intelligent, shy, socially inept girl gets bullied by her classmates. Although bullying that occurs with young children rarely goes as far as the violence of hate crimes perpetrated by adults, it has been known to and is certainly a precursor to much more severe behavior in the future, as studies of bullies have shown.
Like, I said, you are more than welcome to disagree with me and I'd love to hear what others have to say or think about this. What have other people experienced either in the US or around the world when it comes to bullying?
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
June 20, 2006 - 01:05 PM
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rschack wrote:
Although bullying that occurs with young children rarely goes as far as the violence of hate crimes perpetrated by adults, it has been known to and is certainly a precursor to much more severe behavior in the future, as studies of bullies have shown.
Like, I said, you are more than welcome to disagree with me and I'd love to hear what others have to say or think about this. What have other people experienced either in the US or around the world when it comes to bullying?
Although I haven't heard of any study linking bullying to hate crimes, I think your reasoning is sound that there could be a positive correlation there. However, I think there is a key difference b/w a bullied individual and a hate crime which targets an entire group - if an individual is targeted in a hate crime, they are a representive. In this sense, the hate crime is not "personal".
I also think that bullied victims have more in common than simply deviating from the norm. Studies have shown that chronic victims tend to be passive of maladaptive parenting or "resistant attachment" to use the attachment theory model. [1]
[1] link-> info from this textbook
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
June 20, 2006 - 10:47 PM
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Yes, I do think that bullying is slightly different from the traditional definition of a hate crime. However, I do disagree that hate crimes are not personal. Although I have never been a victim of a hate crime, I would imagine that anyone who has certainly sees the act as a personal attack, an action meant to harm them as much as it is an effort to violate a group. Bullying, too, is personal and like hate crimes is intimidating and frightening.
I think the biggest difference between bullying and hate crimes is that for a long time bullying has been down-played and its psychological and emotional consequences often discounted. It has only been within the last two or two and half decades that bullying has started to come to the forefront as a concern. Even now, many parents of bullied children feel that bullying is just a part of growing up, where as a parent of a child who is victim of a hate crime will not feel the same. This mentality often leads people to blame the victim of bullying when, instead of claiming that someone is too passive or not assertive, perhaps the bullies themselves need just as much help. By no means am I saying that victimes of bullying should not be taught assertiveness skills, but at the same time, the onus of change should be solely on them.
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
June 21, 2006 - 01:32 PM
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I agree that programs most certainly should not blame victims of bullying, and that bullies also would benefit from intervention programs as well as the bullied.
Are you suggesting through making a link b/w hate crimes and bullying that intervention programs for bullying might be successfully implemented towards dealing with hate crimes? Or were you thinking of a more preventative approach e.g. if we "cure" a bully, s/he will be less likely to grow up to commit hate crimes. Certainly, I can see some similar elements that could be used, e.g. promoting cultural tolerance and teaching people better social skills in regards to conflict resolution.
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Re: Hate Crimes and Civil rights in America
June 21, 2006 - 02:13 PM
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I'm not really sure what I was orginally suggesting  I was just throwing out an idea to ponder. But, I do think that preventive/educational approaches for bullying and hate crime prevention would have similar goals. As you mentioned, teaching and encouraging tolerance and respect is a major component of curbing both problems. Also, education on communicating, conflict resolution, and other social skills would be beneficial. Clearly, bullies and people who commit hate crimes tend to struggle with self-esteem and look for acceptance, often giving in to peer pressure which could encourage violence. Therefore, measures that help children and youth develop positive social networks and improve self-esteem could also work on preventing both bullying and hate crimes. So, I guess that is what I'm suggesting, now that I've given it some more thought
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