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minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·2 months agoSadly, the odds of getting a conviction They can easily get assault, but a hate crime requires proving intent and having a jury sympathetic to the victim It’s a shitty situation
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 months ago A group of strangers started harassing her and using anti-gay slurs as she left the restroom Sounds open-and-shut hate crime to me.
minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down5·edit-22 months agoNow convince a jury of stupid, ignorant yanks of that. Edit: I live in Australia To us, you’re all “Seppos” Septic-Tank>Yank
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·edit-22 months agoThere are no Yanks in Illinois. That’s the Midwest. We’re in the Northeast (though ignorance is not regional).
minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·2 months agoI live in Australia, I was unaware of your regional differences with that word! We use it to describe all of you
minus-squareHobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down2·2 months agoCanada too. Y’all down there in Red White and Stupid land can complain all you want about “yanks” meaning all the US considering you’ve co-opted “American” to mean the same thing.
minus-squareSreudianFlip@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·2 months agoThey don’t understand that we mean it like “Yanqui”, as in, imperialists.
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·2 months agoYanks are from the northeast, which is generally fiscally conservative and socially progressive.
minus-squarebarneypiccolo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoYeah, why is there even a question about this?
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoCan’t they charge and try for multiple counts?
minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoI dunno, maybe Hopefully.
Sadly, the odds of getting a conviction
They can easily get assault, but a hate crime requires proving intent and having a jury sympathetic to the victim
It’s a shitty situation
Sounds open-and-shut hate crime to me.
Now convince a jury of stupid, ignorant yanks of that.
Edit: I live in Australia
To us, you’re all “Seppos”
Septic-Tank>Yank
There are no Yanks in Illinois. That’s the Midwest. We’re in the Northeast (though ignorance is not regional).
I live in Australia,
I was unaware of your regional differences with that word!
We use it to describe all of you
Canada too.
Y’all down there in Red White and Stupid land can complain all you want about “yanks” meaning all the US considering you’ve co-opted “American” to mean the same thing.
They don’t understand that we mean it like “Yanqui”, as in, imperialists.
Yanks are from the northeast, which is generally fiscally conservative and socially progressive.
Yeah, why is there even a question about this?
Can’t they charge and try for multiple counts?
I dunno, maybe
Hopefully.