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Top Japanese diplomat shoved to the ground, assaulted in bias crime in downtown Portland, records show (www.oregonlive.com)

submitted 1 year ago by const_void@lemmy.ml to c/portland@lemmy.ml

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[–] vogumvogum@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looked it up, it's just what hate crimes are legally referred to in Oregon apparently.

Which means yeah, probably at some point some lawyer defending some racist argued the actual term for it was politically incorrect and somehow people agreed with him

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