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Message: [QUOTE="DoctorBombay, post: 4141216, member: 626"] Just curious, and I'm also not justifying the "hate crime" aspect of this situation, but what does her being an immigrant...or not, have ANY earthly thing to do with it? Heck, in his anger he could've called her a fat, good-for-nothing, smart-mouth little B, and probably gotten away with an apology, ie; "My son was in the ER. I was traumatized at nearly losing him, & I let my grief and anger take over. I apologize etc. etc...". But why immigrant? What did her immigration status have to do with the issue other than he chose to discriminately & verbally attack her, because of his own prejudices. Maybe it might not fall in a hate crime category, I don't know how the law is worded. But injecting race & ethnicity as a knee-jerk reaction to stress, is never cool. And maybe a-hol*es like this guy need to understand that fact, so that the next unabashed bigot doesn't get too comfortable attacking someone else, no? JMHO [/QUOTE]