Hate crimes have been around for hundreds of years. To this day, it continues to negatively impact the world. It especially affects the people who experience it. Whether it be because they are gay or because they are Muslim. Hate crime can apply to anyone who has been assaulted by someone who is motivated by bias over a group. A specific person getting murdered because of who they are, leaves the community of people like that person uncomfortable with being themselves in society because they think they can also be attacked. Victims don't always get served justice after being subject to hate crimes. Instilling more laws gives people the choice to either accept others’ differences or face consequences for attacking someone due to their differences. …show more content…
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, “ a hate crime is defined as a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity. Hate itself is not a crime.” What the FBI means by hate itself not being crime is that everyone is entitled to their own opinions. It may not be morally ethical, but there is no law against expressing one’s opinion. Matter of fact, there is some recent controversy on the topic of what extent is hate speech a hate crime. The American Library Association did a study and wrote an article about this exact topic stating that:
In the United States, hate speech enjoys substantial protection under the First Amendment. This is based upon the belief that freedom of speech requires
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One thing that is an important part of putting down a foot on hate crimes is that in a way it is telling people who are capable of such acts that they have to accept the rules or face consequences. It makes people accept change. Meaning that people have to understand and accept that not everybody is the same, but can still be treated with the same dignity as if they were all the same. That is the idea in itself of enforcing more laws. Something that seems to have controversy over, but in many opinions, should