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Scotland’s hate crime law may be well intentioned, but the police should not stymie public debate | Simon Jenkins (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Streetlights to c/scotland
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If even the Guardian won't get behind your Hate Crime Act, maybe it's worth having a wee think about it?

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[–] ClockworkOtter 1 points 8 months ago

That's just deferring to authority; Kennedy doesn't present any evidence via reports, statistics or analysis so what he says is worthless.

Simon Jenkins' characteristics are entirely relevant to his lack of value in this conversation about hate crime against trans persons.