I don’t know anything about it. My wild guess is that progressives wrote the law so it can be more inclusive and it’s easier to charge people. If my wild assumption is right - I assume the punishments are weak.
I said this in another comment but I’ll say it here too: It makes me feel less safe having people soften the language. I do not trust the people that came up with this at all, they wanted to soften the language and used some fringe situations where the language doesn’t apply as a means of softening the language for ALL situations under the guise of broadening or “including” other things.
I think it also feeds into the chud narrative “they’re criminalising everything that’s not woke” (à la Peterson and claiming that using incorrect pronouns would land you in jail)
Yeah there’s just no need to soften the language for the existing things when you can give a new word to the things that don’t fit into it.
The only reason to include them is to deliberately soften the existing language. It’s deeply sus behaviour and I don’t trust the people that did it. I categorically oppose any attempt to soften the description of hate crimes.
It’s an Oregon thing. - https://hexbear.net/comment/6884609
Feels like it softens the crime.
I don’t know anything about it. My wild guess is that progressives wrote the law so it can be more inclusive and it’s easier to charge people. If my wild assumption is right - I assume the punishments are weak.
I said this in another comment but I’ll say it here too: It makes me feel less safe having people soften the language. I do not trust the people that came up with this at all, they wanted to soften the language and used some fringe situations where the language doesn’t apply as a means of softening the language for ALL situations under the guise of broadening or “including” other things.
I think it also feeds into the chud narrative “they’re criminalising everything that’s not woke” (à la Peterson and claiming that using incorrect pronouns would land you in jail)
Yeah there’s just no need to soften the language for the existing things when you can give a new word to the things that don’t fit into it.
The only reason to include them is to deliberately soften the existing language. It’s deeply sus behaviour and I don’t trust the people that did it. I categorically oppose any attempt to soften the description of hate crimes.