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Many believe that a crime against a protected minority warrants no greater punishment than a crime against any other person. I believe this to be true as well. The problem, however, is all too often a crime against a protected minority is punished less severely not more. Even though the legal definition of “hate crime” normally means a crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the property that is the object of the crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of (more…)