You're talking about different things: He's talking about sentence enhancements on already violent crimes. You're talking about something about talking. I find

You're talking about different things: He's talking about sentence enhancements on already violent crimes. You're talking about something about talking. I find the British reaction to this tweet appaling, that they jailed the racist twit. I however fully support the lengthening of sentences when a subgroup bias is determined to be likely. While nothing easy popped up via a google search, here is another reason: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/hate_crimes_study.html http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/hate_crimes_study... Apparently, victims of bias based crimes have more trouble getting over the crimes as well (as they can't very well stop being that thing).