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 -- JessicaCohen - 20 Apr 2010 Earlier today, a jury on Long Island convicted a 19-year-old of manslaughter in the killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant. According to media reports, he and four friends had been "beaner-hopping" - a shockingly crude term for cruising around looking for Mexicans and other Hispanics to target with violence - when the defendant stabbed Marcelo Lucero. The incident brought national attention to growing racism by whites (mainly) against Hispanic/Latinos, immigrants and non-.
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 Meanwhile, there is a growing wave of opposition to policies designed to benefit once under-privileged groups if these policies impact the upper/middle classes. People in these groups act on their racism in less obvious ways (sentencing discrimination for non-violent offenses and the death penalty, discriminating in hiring, white flight from inner city school districts) and remedying the effects of this discrimination requires a more complex solution that will require the upper/middle classes to give up something.

-- JonathanWaisnor - 20 Apr 2010

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@jessica I'm not sure how I'd come down on the issue, and I agree with most of what you wrote, but I don't think increasing sentencing as a means of "general deterrence" is all that logical. I mean, doesn't society want to deter all violent crime, regardless of who the victim is? Killing or hurting anyone is societally loathsome, as you put it.

-- JoshuaHochman - 20 Apr 2010


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