I mean, I'm really not a fan of punitive justice or the prison-industrial complex, but I think my attitude was sort of "Well, since we're not going to get rid of prisons anytime soon the punishment ought to reflect that a hate crime really can be worse than a crime with different motives."
Sometimes pragmatism is useful, but sometimes you can let slide some really bad stuff in the name of being pragmatic.
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I mean, I'm really not a fan of punitive justice or the prison-industrial complex, but I think my attitude was sort of "Well, since we're not going to get rid of prisons anytime soon the punishment ought to reflect that a hate crime really can be worse than a crime with different motives."
Sometimes pragmatism is useful, but sometimes you can let slide some really bad stuff in the name of being pragmatic.