1. There should not be “hate crime” laws.
2. Even with that in mind any charge against Smollet would be as they are, for filing a false report (assault) to the police.
3. The media should wipe “hate crime” from the language of its reoorting. The hoax was not that it was not a “hate crime” but that the assualt was staged with the so-called victim a participant in it.
You are absolutely correct. A “hate crime” is a thought crime. They should not exist but l think every state has them at this point and l see no possibility of undoing it. This punk she have not been released. The judge sentenced him but he is a black twink so he gets out.