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Hate Crime v Domestic Terrorism 101 Spicy Files
In depth legal terminology.
https://maddogpac.com/blogs/spicy-files/hate-crime-v-domestic-terrorism
In the coming days you will hear/see a lot of Cable News pundits using vernacular such as: hate crime, domestic terrorist/terrorism. The short answer is these two terms are not interchangeable nor should they be conflated. At all relevant times I will embed original data sources, as with standard practice I will primarily pull data from the DOJ, FBI, DHS, Congress and GPO (for federal statutes) and Congressional Reports.
The easiest way to explain a Federal Hate Crime - generally speaking it’s predicated by hatred and/or bigotry based on race, religion or sexual orientation.
I’ve taken the liberty of placing them in chronological order, starting with the first Federal Hate Crime statute, which President Lyndon Johnson signed into law in 1967. It’s colloquially known as the Civil Rights Act. Accordingly the following statues: