• FistingEnthusiast
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    29 days ago

    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

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      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.

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        Now convince a jury of stupid, ignorant yanks of that.

        Edit: I live in Australia

        To us, you’re all “Seppos”

        Septic-Tank>Yank

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          There are no Yanks in Illinois. That’s the Midwest. We’re in the Northeast (though ignorance is not regional).

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            I live in Australia,

            I was unaware of your regional differences with that word!

            We use it to describe all of you

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              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.

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          Yanks are from the northeast, which is generally fiscally conservative and socially progressive.