[mtrimpe]

You completely lost me here, but nothing in the SendGrid scandal even comes close to deserving the label hate crime.

A hate crime is when some of my gay friends get their face beaten in once again because they were holding hands.

[davidcelis]

I didn't know that massive amounts of death and/or rape threats didn't count as hate crime. Thanks for the enlightenment.

[theorique]

Are they personal attacks? Absolutely.

Are they a bad idea? No doubt.

Are they illegal in some jurisdictions? Possibly.

But they definitely aren't a hate crime - they are simply an internet mob action on their victim du jour. None of the attacks on Adria Richards were done because she was a woman. They were done because of the choice she made in needlessly tweeting and publicly shaming the jokers sitting near her, and triggering a social media firestorm. A man in the same situation would have been attacked just as vehemently - indeed, many men have been the victims of internet mob action.

[blocking_io]

None of the attacks on Adria Richards were done because she was a woman

Your naivety it adorable.

[theorique]

No need to be insulting about it, with misspelled words.

Do you have an actual argument, or just mud slinging?

[Dylan16807]

>hate crimes (also known as bias-motivated crimes)

Correct, certain groups on the internet saying the most vile things they can think of because of a perceived slight is not bias-motivated so it's not a hate crime. Congratulations on your enlightenment.

(And just to preempt an argument you might have, the fact that someone trying to be as offensive as possible uses discriminatory language against their target does not imply that discrimination is the reason they are verbally attacking. It only implies that such language is in fact offensive.)

[s_baby]

You mean the same people who've crusaded for the cause of female rape victims?(Anonymous)

Thanks for your exceptionally unbiased narrative.

[mtrimpe]

I didn't consider that he could have meant the retaliation by the internet trolls.

Yes those technically would be, although I still think using it in this context sullies the term hate crime.