Timeline for Is it an offence if the target of racism only appears to be of/from a different race, colour or national or ethnic origin?
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| Mar 6, 2021 at 10:47 | vote | accept | TripeHound | ||
| Mar 6, 2021 at 1:08 | history | edited | user35069 |
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| Mar 6, 2021 at 0:46 | answer | added | user35069 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 10:46 | comment | added | Stuart F | Not sure if this answers the question but in the UK it's illegal to use words in public likely to incite racial hatred regardless of whether they're directed at somebody, so you could possibly be prosecuted for shouting racist abuse regardless of whom it is directed at. | |
| Oct 5, 2020 at 11:19 | comment | added | gnasher729 | Same in the U.K. In the USA the reasoning is that anti-discrimination laws are not there to protect one particular person, but that particular group, so we don’t want to allow any excuses. | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 19:19 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Some laws in some jurisdictions use phrasing like "actual or perceived race" to explicitly clarify this issue. For example, in the US, 18 USC 249. | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 11:12 | history | asked | TripeHound | CC BY-SA 4.0 |