"Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
>
> Judging a community from the behavior of drunk young punks who that
> community would just as soon put in jail (and likely has at least once
> or twice already) is even less statistically relevant. I saw the same
> behavior as you describe, in both directions, in the five years I lived
> in Seattle, but I wouldn't say that Seattle was a hotbed of hate crimes.
When I was growing up in the 50s and 60s in the Bible Belt, earnest
young men, not hoodlums were freely given the notion that it was ok to
go "roll a few gays". Of course I grew up in Klan country which had
even more ominous habits. When any of these people were caught in those
days that got little more than a slap on the wrist. It is better now
but various crimes of intolerance and beating on the "not us" are
certainly not unknown or limited to "drunk young punks".
- samantha
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