Justin Alesna, a 23-year-old homosexual Detroit resident, was beaten in a BP gas station while others, the clerk and two customers, stood idly by laughing and watching for entertainment. He later made a YouTube video entitled "Hate Crimes Still Happen " and explained everything that happened to him the night of March 7, 2011. Alesna goes to say that "Better Made chips and Combo bags that were scattered on the floor were more important to this man than my life. ".
Hate. From Hitler to Hussein, it's all around the world and has been for a while. People are being bullied, beaten and killed because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, or whatever it may be that doesn't stand with others. Sometimes this hate starts at home, where it's supposed to be safe for kids. When incidents of hate like this happen, there are only so many options available to protect the children. School is one place that it all starts, the teasing and harassing, but soon escalates to something worse. School is supposed to be a safe place, where kids can learn and have a healthy education process. When all of this changed, who knows.
John Glenn is no exception to this. While speaking with Mr. Przybylski, the school psychologist, he explains how he deals with a handful of students daily with stress issues, but every now and then he comes across students with bullying issues and discrimination against certain individuals because of the way they look, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. "It's not right or healthy to judge people based on appearance, very narrow minded to view people that way " Przybylski said. His job requires him to help students understand the source of the problem, to create a way to solve it and eventually eliminate it. He helps students get through their emotional issues to provide a safe environment for easier learning. .
10th grade English teacher and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) Supervisor, Mrs.
How do hate crimes play a big role in society today? ... Hate crimes are terrible attacks that a person or persons do to others. ... The second question was, what do you think about when you think about hate crimes? ... I think that hate crimes do affect society today. ... We need to help stop these crimes by promoting respect for all kinds of people. ...
I do believe that we can greatly reduce the amount of prejudice in our world today, yet I do not think that it will ever completely go away. ... Obviously, no one can tell these people that they cannot have their own opinions or beliefs, for they have the right to hate whomever they like. However, I believe we need to raise our children to accept all people, no matter what god they do or do not believe in or what color skin they may have. ... How could someone say such a thing when all they have seen is one's appearance? ... I believe people need to stop following the crowd and form their...
When this type of hate fuels a person into taking violent actions upon those they hate, it is called a hate crime; a topic which the American public is seriously concerned about. ... I do believe that we can greatly reduce the amount of prejudice in the world today. ... As of 1999, there are 11 states that do not have any kind of hate crime laws in effect. ... The need for interagency partnerships and "one stop" service provision is central to the government's anti-hate-crime agenda. ... It also specializes in inter-agency and One Stop policy formation, which will define, educate and ...
When this type of hate fuels a person into taking violent actions upon those they hate, it is called a hate crime; a topic which the American public is seriously concerned about. ... I do believe that we can greatly reduce the amount of prejudice in the world today. ... As of 1999, there are 11 states that do not have any kind of hate crime laws in effect. ... The need for interagency partnerships and "one stop" service provision is central to the government's anti-hate-crime agenda. ... It also specializes in inter-agency and One Stop policy formation, which will define, educate and ...
Does America need a federal hate-crime law? ... Law officers don't even have the sufficient amount of training to even know what to do when a hate-crime is committed. ... This isn't 1968 when the law was signed into effect. ... Individuals must learn to love life and one another before hate crimes can stop. ... If we could learn to learn from one another and stop hating, think how prosperous we could be. ...
When speaking of the harsh word, "hate", one speaks of how we hate different things others do such as what religion one practices, what race another is, the sexual preferences another likes, if one is disabled in any way, or just the way another looks. ... Hate causes people to do dumb and violent things. ... So what is one to do? How do we, as people, stop the violence and stop the hate? It cannot be stopped completely, but we do have laws to try to help protect us from the crimes. ...
These crimes have to be looked at differently because when a person is beaten and tied to a fence because he is gay there is more going on than a high school prank. ... These types of crimes have to stop in order to even remotely have equality among our nation. The fact of hate crimes is that they pick on smaller more vulnerable groups that probably do not have the means or even the willpower or manpower to fight back. ... Hate crimes can come from many different causes, but each cause for a hate crime ultimately stems from ignorance. ... Bottom line is that we spend too much time worrying ...
However, when such "free speech" crosses the line and becomes a threat or an incitement to violence, the courts have stepped in and punished the speaker. ... Matsuda also writes "When hate speech invades a campus, students have no choice, no place to go to escape the speech" (p.154). ... And if we do regulate speech on campus, will hate speech stop? ... Besides, when hate is out in the open, people can see the problem. ... Shiell, T. (1998) Campus hate speech on trial. ...
Hate crime laws inflict a harsher punishment for criminals who specifically target their victims and many do not believe that this is right. ... The laws do not punish opinions or speech but are based purely on criminal actions (An Introduction to Hate Crime Laws, n.d). ... Hate crime sentences do not have any straight forward, black and white rules. ... When a hate crime is committed the offender is charged with the initial crime and the judge decides if a hate crime charge can correctly be added. ... Some argue that if a person is already being convicted of the initial crime why does it hav...
