Warp wrote:
>   So if you publicly say racial slurs, and then later you beat a black guy,
> you will get a extra punishment even though the reason for beating him might
> not have been racist?

I wouldn't think so. I think if you beat up a black guy *while* screaming 
racial slurs, then (say) tie him to a fence, kick him to death, then paint 
racial slurs on the corpse, you'll be accused of a "hate crime".  (Yeah, 
real example, only with gays rather than blacks.)

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