When news came out that the Hate Crime Act was to be implemented on April 1, I can't have been the only one wondering if this was an April Fools' Day joke.
When news came out that the Hate Crime Act was to be implemented on April 1, I can’t have been the only one wondering if this was an April Fools’ Day joke.
An additional problem with the lack of clarity about ‘stirring up’ offences is that Police Scotland define a hate crime as ‘any crime which is understood by the victim or any other person as being motivated, wholly or partly, by malice or ill will towards a social group’. At the very least, the recording of hate incidents is likely to increase substantially – even when no crime has been proven or even committed – based on the current police practice of accepting without question an allegation of hate made by a member of the public.Could we find offence is taken about articles or lectures?
Also, the idea of ‘protected characteristics’, a term that came out of the 1960s but has only become widely used in the past decade or so. Our activist friend even explained that there is an academic book out explaining why people hate the disabled.It wasn’t enough to accept or recognise that disabled people may face discrimination, perhaps based on ignorance or even prejudice.As ‘hate’ becomes the legal category built around groups defined as having protected characteristics, there comes a need to prove hatred to protect this new status.
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