[JimRed]

Double standard; alive and well!

[Prime Choice]

Well, of course. In the Liberal Politically-Correct World, only Whitey is capable of racism and/or hate speech and/or hate crimes. No "person of color" can be racist or engage in such untoward conduct.

So they call it "thuggish" in order to put an acceptable face on anti-caucasian racism.

[misterrob]

[Bogolyubski]

Since this appears to have taken place in CA, I wonder if the PC thugs were some more immigrants "doing the work Americans won't do."

[Sam's Army]

Anyone remember the late 80's/early 90's term "Wilding"?

Or the early to mid 90's term "Black Rage"?

[samtheman]

The only racist is a white racist.

People of color who say and do racist things cannot be called racist because... well, because... they are people of color.

That's really the only Politically Correct way of thinking about racism.

[Die_Hard Conservative Lady]

Ditto, on the Double standard alive and well.

It that wasn't racial, then what was it?

[junta]

These PC nitwits had better be pressed to see that they do their jobs because it seems they are looking for any excuse to walk away from this "thugishness."

[reelfoot]

Hate crime can't apply to a white victim--it doesn't fit the left's lexicon. In fact, I believe I have read FBI crime statistics that show in cases of interracial crime involving whites and blacks (one race a perpetrator, the other a victim), in 90% of the cases a white is the victim. How often does this make it into the news? Though certainly not every such case would have been motivated by racial hatred (often merely "thuggishness" and criminal propensity), one would think that, given that statistic, there would be more black hate crime that white hate crime (despite the substantially larger numbers of whites in the population).

[Hacksaw]

What? Another example of hate crime charges not being applied evenly again?

[jimt]

Silly article. Everybody knows only whites are capable of hate crimes. The other groups are merely reacting to years of racism and oppression.

< /barf >

[ApplegateRanch]

they were not acting out of antisocial racism, they were acting out of antisocial selfishness

And I still fail to understand why it matters. It is the antisocial ACTING that matters.

Either way, the victim is still beaten, kicked and choked unconscious. Adding insult to injury, literally, is still insult, whether racial or not. And it says they did that, too.

Only a (defense) lawyer or a Liberal gives a damn about 'why', as far as the crime's commission itself is concerned. Certainly the victim doesn't.

It should only be Hollywood that worries about, "What's the motivation?"

Now, if crime PREVENTION is being talked about, then motivation and causes obviously matter.

[neutrino]

"Clearly their self-control is lacking, and they appear to have an impulse to be violent before they have an impulse to be peacemakers," Evans said. "But they were not acting out of antisocial racism, they were acting out of antisocial selfishness."

When material like this is published, and accepted - I begin to think I've lived too long.

[Physicist]

Jeez, they can't even bring themselves to call it "thuggery". "Thuggishness" suggests that the perps themselves are not actual thugs, but--as it turned out--happened to behave like thugs, for a time, in this one isolated instance. They are good kids, but they remind us of bad people, in some abstract sense.

I have a word: savagery. Just let the savages try to call that word racist, after what they did and how they did it.