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    Essay On Hate Crime

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    Hate crime affects over 50 percent of Hispanic or Latino populations in the United States. Over the years, hate crimes has increased causing fear, inferiority and physical injury that in some cases end with the death of the victims. Immigration policies, communities and individual immigrants are most common causes of bias crime. In this research paper I focus more in the victims of hate crime than offenders. My independent variable is Immigrant's background and my dependent variable is the crime

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    Cause Of Hate Crimes

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    half of the hate crimes in that year with a steady rate of 59.2%. Hate crimes, or bias-motivated crimes, are offences that are encouraged by hatred against a victim because of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, handicap, national origin, or tribal membership. Some instances make these crimes very difficult to identify because it can be hard to determine one’s motivation. Also, some can simply be expressing their rights given to them by the Constitution. Hate crimes used to be a

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    What are Hate Crimes?

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    Throughout history, crimes have been committed worldwide. Murder, assault, and other crimes have been dealt with some kind of punishment, but one crime stays unnoticed and not cared about. Hate crimes, a major conflict in communities, have been showing up without anyone noticing. People sometimes commit them unaware of the consequences due to the lack of understanding what a hate crime really is. A hate crime is a motive to hurt or insult a certain group of people. It is more harsh and dangerous

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    “Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right” (Cher). Whoever commits a hate crime should not receive any special punishment. Other people believe that a hate crime deserves special treatment as it is more painful.. Whether the punishment is harsh or weak, it is a problem that must be addressed. One of the types of crimes that have caused a considerable amount of damage are hate crimes. The U.S. Congress defines a hate crime as

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    The Issue Of Hate Crime

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    ‘There has always been hate and divisions,’ some would say. While this is true, this kind of prevalence has not been at the forefront of the political, personal, social, etc. sphere in a long while. Headlines are becoming more trigger inducing and there has been an uproar of hate crimes across the nation. While both sides have contributed to the hatefulness, the way that the hate is manifested is more rampant among supporters of Trump. This is seen through the way that the hate crime rate has gone up

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    orientation. People who shows hate against another person's race, sexuality, and other prejudice are called bigots. Some bigots tend to take their hate to another level causing their temper and animosity to lead to violence. When a bigot uses violence to hate upon other individuals is known as a hate crime. According to Mark Potok, from the Southern Poverty Law Center, studies show that about 250,000 biased crimes happen yearly, and most of them are unreported. Hate crimes is a serious issue that seeks

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    bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.¨ So by Donald Trump saying that does that mean my Mexican immigrant grandparents are criminals or are they a part of the some he ¨assumes¨ are decent people? What about the rest of my family of immigrants? Mexicans or immigrants aren’t the only communities he’s discriminated against. Unfortunately some of his supporters take his speeches the wrong way, and commit hate crimes against others. He is not only

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    How To Stop Hate Crimes

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    We need to stop hate crimes. Hate crimes lead to emotional scarring such as leading people to hurt themselves. Hate crimes are brutal and harmful. The percentage of hate crimes can increase if we don't do anything but stand around. The United States has a long history of biased actions against individuals because of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender. Many individuals get judged for their race, ethnicity, religion, who they're attracted to, who they want

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    In 2015, according to the Criminal Justice Information Services Division, there were 6,837 hate crime offences reported to the police. A hate crime is an incident or offence motivated by a bias based on race, gender, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. Of those 6,837 offences; 58.9% were motivated by racial bias; 19.8% by religion; 17.8% by sexuality; 1.7% by gender; and 1.3% by disability. Today’s society has a cruel view of those who aren’t part of the un-oppressed majority-

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    only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that” (Martin Luther King Jr). Hate crimes are a big problem in the world today and need to be stopped. To end hate crimes people need to learn to look past what is on the outside of a person and learn to love what it on the inside. In the selection, Why We Need to Tolerate Hate by Wendy Kaminer, Kaminer emphasizes what hate crimes are and how they are treated differently than other crimes. Since hate crimes are a problem in the world

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