{"id":47692,"date":"2021-04-22T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47692"},"modified":"2021-04-22T22:47:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:47:17","slug":"anti-asian-hate-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47692","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Asian hate crimes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rc1ee349cf4b6f9668bf0027210ec54e3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47693\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rc1ee349cf4b6f9668bf0027210ec54e3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rc1ee349cf4b6f9668bf0027210ec54e3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rc1ee349cf4b6f9668bf0027210ec54e3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a bit confused.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate has just approved, in a stunning 94-1 vote, a bill that makes crimes against Asian-Americans a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to be clear I do not condone hate crimes of any form. What confuses me is why Congress feels the need to enact a bill that seeks to protect a single group of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>If crimes are directed at individuals because of hate, isn&#8217;t there a way to write an all-inclusive bill that covers all Americans?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/549752-senate-passes-hate-crimes-bill\">Senate passes anti-Asian hate crimes bill | TheHill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gay Americans are victims of hate crimes. Black Americans are, too. So are Latinos. Muslims have been targeted by criminals who hate them because of their religion. There once was a time when Catholics were hate crime victims. Now it&#8217;s Americans of Asian descent.<\/p>\n<p>Do we single out all these groups for specific levels of hate crime or do we wrap them all into a comprehensive piece of legislation that covers hate crimes of all types?<\/p>\n<p>If someone can explain why we have this need to enact bills that target hate crimes against certain categories of Americans, I am all ears.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the single vote against the Asian-American hate crime bill? None other than Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, the Republican who led the challenge to President Biden&#8217;s election in 2020.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I am a bit confused. The U.S. Senate has just approved, in a stunning 94-1 vote, a bill that makes crimes against Asian-Americans a hate crime. Now, to be clear I do not condone hate crimes of any form. What confuses me is why Congress feels the need to enact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-Asian hate crimes?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[2076],"class_list":["post-47692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-hate-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47694,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47692\/revisions\/47694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}