Forced Political Correctness is A Hate Crime

Andrew Breitbart has an article up on The Washington Times website on the attempts to enact more hate crime laws.

I don't believe they are necessary either.

Having a hate crime doesn't or rarely leads to harsher prison sentences. And if a state does not have the death penalty for murder then a murder committed with "hate" isn't going to get punished any harsher than life anyways.

But aside from their uselessness, hate crime laws are just a means of dividing us. Does it really matter what your skin/hair/eyes look like when you get mugged? Does it really matter if you are a man/woman/other? Will you hurt less if you were mugged not because you were Christian/Jewish/Muslim/other but because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Seriously? Is a woman being raped more or less of a hate crime than a man being raped? Is a child being murdered more or less of a hate crime than a mother? Is a man being robbed more or less of a hate crime because he's black or because he's white?

Doesn't being raped, murdered, or robbed suck in and of itself?

Hate crimes are stupid, useless, and divisive. My cousin who is gay was robbed, raped and dumped into a dumpster like human trash. It was a horrible terrible thing. But not once, not ever, did my aunt or my cousin describe it as a hate crime because what was done was an act of pure hate in and of itself - regardless of to whom it was done.