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On one hand, that's nice that there's another public holiday, but on the other hand this feels like such an empty gesture, almost like the political equivalent
by jdhn 5y ago
On one hand, that's nice that there's another public holiday, but on the other hand this feels like such an empty gesture, almost like the political equivalent of putting a filter on your selfie.
- always_left 5y agoAgree, but we’re also working with politicians that had discrepancies with a law protecting Asians from hate crimes[0] [0] https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/politics/republicans-voted-no-asian-hate-crime-bill/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/politics/republicans-voted-no...
- ralusek 5y agoHate crimes are already a redundancy over the fact that the underlying crimes are already crimes. Hate crimes against Asians, doubly so. You already can't assault somebody. We don't need laws that say that you can't assault somebody on the basis of their race, and we definitely don't need laws saying that you can't assault somebody because they're Asian.
- fighterpilot 5y agoIt's not all just redundancy since it imposes stiffer penalties on the strict subset of crimes deemed more important to punish or deter. I don't really like that one kind of assault is punished more than another even if the physical harm is identical, although I can see why some people would.
- yerwhat01010 5y agoWait till you hear about Senate Amendment No. 1456: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1G2lyeWYAYSQnn?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1G2lyeWYAYSQnn?format=jpg&name=...
- chaorace 5y agoHolidays may not all be holy days, but they certainly do occupy an important place in the cultural pantheon. Even the act of introducing the Holiday is significant -- Reagan was in office the last time this happened, I wasn't even alive back then! Even more importantly, however... children will now grow up having the day off and learning about it in class. That's where the real, permanent progress happens!