Hate crimes (was Re: muggle baiting vs. muggle torture)

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No: HPFGUIDX 155767

Magpie:
But how can they legislate based on motivation?  Willy Widdershins
could have said he didn't prank the Muggle because he was a Muggle,
but because he was annoyed by him, or disliked his hair.  It seems
like Muggle- baiting must be wrong by Wizard standards either
because they actually think it's wrong to Prank Muggles (like the
way they presumably disagree with the Black who likes to hunt
Muggles) or because it causes danger to Wizards.


Tinktonks - If i were to play a practical joke on a friend of a
friend and unknown to me he was gay, would that mean I was gay
baiting?

Ok so how about if I knew he was gay but I did it because he had
told nasty lies about my best friend? Would I be gay baiting then?

By your reasoning the twins aren't alowed to dislike Dudley, because
he is a muggle but if he was a wizard they could hate him as much as
they like! Do Harry and Draco wizard bait? No. They do what they do
because of a clash of personality.

The idea of being racist is not hating someone who is black, it is
hating someone BECAUSE they are black. By the same definition the
twins are not biggots, they play a trick on Dudley who happens to be
a muggle, not BECAUSE he is a muggle.

I think people are being utterly unfair to Fred and George. They
have shown no malicious intent towards any muggle because they are a
muggle, just played a trick, (which granted was dangerous, selfish
and badly thought through) but was NOT muggle baiting!

Tinktonks – Who says give Fred and George a break!