• Patapon Enjoyer
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    141 year ago

    If a book is important to one or more ethnic groups, burning it is a hate crime, period. Being mass produced has nothing to go with it.

    • R0cket_M00se
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      251 year ago

      Islam isn’t an ethnic group, and your logic is insane.

      Can’t burn a dictionary cause one or more ethnic groups consider it important. Or the Bible.

      Hate crime? Jesus get a grip.

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        To answer your rhetoric question: Because people believe in it for some reason. If millions of people were crazy enough to think Star Wars happened and molded their lives after it, and you started burning Star Wars DVDs because you despise Star Warite refugees, yes, people would be very upset at you for doing that.

        People are clearly burning religious text to demonstrate their contempt to a group of people, it’s the definition of a hate crime.

    • @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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      51 year ago

      Not really true, but I guess it depends on the country.

      In the United States at least, burning your own book, flag, or whatever is legally protected free speech. Just as long as you aren’t destroying someone else’s property.

      Context also matters. Burning bibles during a religious service is probably a thin line.

    • Franzia
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      11 year ago

      Hate speech, not a hate crime. In this case, the hate speech is criminal.