JohnnyLurg wrote:
Ashariel wrote:
I'm confused by 'ableism' as well. OP is asking about whether people can legally get away with ableism, and I think the legal term is 'discrimination', and it only applies to businesses and government agencies. There is no law against ordinary people calling you names, or making derogatory judgments about you.
What do you think hate crimes are? Do you think it's legal for a white person to call a black person the N word outside of the workplace?
I've always considered that a hate crime but in the UK that is considered a hate incident not a hate crime
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What are hate incidents and hate crime?
Hate incidents and hate crime are acts of violence or hostility directed at people because of who they are or who someone thinks they are.
For example, you may have been verbally abused by someone in the street because you’re disabled or someone thought you were gay.
If you’ve experienced a hate incident or hate crime you can report it to the police.
Read this page to find out more about hate incidents and hate crime.
What are hate incidents?
The police and Crown Prosecution Service have agreed a common definition of hate incidents.
They say something is a hate incident if the victim or anyone else think it was motivated by hostility or prejudice based on one of the following things:
disability
race
religion
transgender identity
sexual orientation.
This means that if you believe something is a hate incident it should be recorded as such by the person you are reporting it to. All police forces record hate incidents based on these five personal characteristics.
Anyone can be the victim of a hate incident. For example, you may have been targeted because someone thought you were gay even though you’re not, or because you have a disabled child.
Other personal characteristics
Some police forces also record hate incidents based on other personal characteristics such as age.
In particular, Greater Manchester Police now recognises alternative sub-culture hate incidents. These are incidents based on someone’s appearance and include Goths, Emos, Punks and other similar groups. This means they will also record any such incidents as a hate incident.
What type of incidents can be a hate incident?
Hate incidents can take many forms. Here are examples of hate incidents:
verbal abuse like name-calling and offensive jokes
harassment
bullying or intimidation by children, adults, neighbours or strangers
physical attacks such as hitting, punching, pushing, spitting
threats of violence
hoax calls, abusive phone or text messages, hate mail
online abuse for example on Facebook or Twitter
displaying or circulating discriminatory literature or posters
harm or damage to things such as your home, pet, vehicle
graffiti
arson
throwing rubbish into a garden
malicious complaints for example over parking, smells or noise.
When is a hate incident also a hate crime?
When hate incidents become criminal offences they are known as hate crimes. A criminal offence is something which breaks the law of the land.
Any criminal offence can be a hate crime if it was carried out because of hostility or prejudice based on disability, race, religion, transgender identity or sexual orientation.
When something is classed as a hate crime, the judge can impose a tougher sentence on the offender under the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
Incidents which are based on other personal characteristics, such as age and belonging to an alternative subculture, are not considered to be hate crimes under the law. You can still report these, but they will not be prosecuted specifically as hate crimes by the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Examples of hate crimes
Here are examples of hate crimes:
assaults
criminal damage
harassment
murder
sexual assault
theft
fraud
burglary
hate mail (Malicious Communications Act 1988)
causing harassment, alarm or distress (Public Order Act 1988).
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Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury. Raise the double standard
02 Jul 2017, 6:09 am
