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Democrats reintroduce Equality Act amid Pride Month The Hill

Democrats in both chambers of Congress on Wednesday resurrected a proposal to extend federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ Americans, vowing to pass the landmark civil rights legislation that in the past has failed to garner enough bipartisan support.

The Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, economic status, sex and national origin, to further prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.

House and Senate Democrats on Wednesday said the legislation is necessary to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination against the backdrop of rising anti-LGBTQ violence, rhetoric and policies.

“We are filing this bill during Pride Month, a time of celebration but also an opportunity to reflect on a time when being out was nearly impossible,” Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), the bill’s primary sponsor in the House and one of 12 openly LGBTQ lawmakers in Congress, said during a news conference.

“We cannot allow extremists in our country to once again normalize homophobia and attacks on LGBTQ people,” Takano said in a reference to hundreds of state-level bills filed this year that target the LGBTQ community. “We can’t turn away from the discrimination that still exists for so many LGBTQ people today.”

There is currently no federal law that explicitly prohibits anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and a majority of states do not explicitly protect LGBTQ residents from bias or inequity in key areas of life.

Laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation in areas such as housing and public accommodations exist in less than half of U.S. states, according to the Movement Advancement Project, which tracks state legislation and policies that impact the rights of LGBTQ Americans.

When it comes to employment, just 23 states and Washington, D.C., have adopted laws that prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBTQ civil rights group, and only 10 states have adopted policies that explicitly address anti-LGBTQ hate or bias crimes.

“There is a dizzying patchwork of protections for LGBTQ+ people across this country,” Kelley Robinson, HRC’s president, said Wednesday during a Senate hearing on LGBTQ rights. HRC earlier this month declared a national state of emergency for LGBTQ people for the time in its 40-year history, citing the passage of more than 75 laws that target the community.

“This bill is simple,” Takano said during Wednesday’s news conference. “It provides for full personhood under the law.”

House and Senate Democrats have pushed for the passage of the Equality Act during every Congress since 2015. While the bill passed the House in both 2019 and 2021, when the chamber was controlled by Democrats, success is less likely this year with a Republican majority.

But this year’s Equality Act may see its first victory in the Senate, where Democrats have a slim majority. A Senate companion bill was also introduced Wednesday, by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.).

Democrats on Wednesday pointed to last year’s Respect for Marriage Act, which passed both chambers with bipartisan support, as an indicator that Congress may finally get the Equality Act across the finish line this year.

“The fight for LGBTQ+ rights has been long, but we have made unmistakable progress in the fight towards true equality,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) said Wednesday. “Just a decade ago, passing marriage equality and the Respect for Marriage Act with a dozen Republican senators on our side would have been unthinkable.”

“We defied political gravity,” she said.
 
Lol. Another solution looking for a problem.

Translation: Everyone I don't like is faking it.

Seriously, you seem to have some serious deep seeded issues here.

Lets say your story is 100% authentic. This is a friendly reminder that somewhere between less than 1% up to 15% of hate crimes are faked. The 15% number comes from a lone right wing researcher - Wilfred Reilly. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino estimates it is less than 1%.

For the sake of argument--lets go with the right wing researcher's number just for this example. Even going with his numbers (which most in the field say are dubious) means 85% of hate crimes are real.

So much for "looking for a problem", eh?
 
Translation: Everyone I don't like is faking it.

Seriously, you seem to have some serious deep seeded issues here.

Lets say your story is 100% authentic. This is a friendly reminder that somewhere between less than 1% up to 15% of hate crimes are faked. The 15% number comes from a lone right wing researcher - Wilfred Reilly. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino estimates it is less than 1%.

For the sake of argument--lets go with the right wing researcher's number just for this example. Even going with his numbers (which most in the field say are dubious) means 85% of hate crimes are real.

So much for "looking for a problem", eh?
Don't we already have laws against beating people up?

Not so sure about your numbers?


Mr. Reilly eventually compiled a database of 346 hate-crime allegations and determined that less than a third were genuine. Turning his attention to the hoaxes, he put together a data set of more than 400 confirmed cases of fake allegations that were reported to authorities between 2010 and 2017. He allows that the exact number of false reports is probably unknowable, but what can be said “with absolute confidence is that the actual number of hate crime hoaxes is indisputably large,” he writes. “We are not speaking here of just a few bad apples.”
 
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Don't we already have laws against beating people up?
Do you hear that sound? Its moving goalposts after getting wrecked by the facts.
course diss GIF
 
Don't we already have laws against beating people up?

Not so sure about your numbers?


Mr. Reilly eventually compiled a database of 346 hate-crime allegations and determined that less than a third were genuine. Turning his attention to the hoaxes, he put together a data set of more than 400 confirmed cases of fake allegations that were reported to authorities between 2010 and 2017. He allows that the exact number of false reports is probably unknowable, but what can be said “with absolute confidence is that the actual number of hate crime hoaxes is indisputably large,” he writes. “We are not speaking here of just a few bad apples.”
Nice large edit after the fact.

"Wilfred Reilly, a political scientist at Kentucky State University and author of “Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War,” believes that fewer than 2 out of 10 reported hate crimes are fabricated. Where academics disagree is on just how many hoaxes take place. Reilly estimates that as much as 15 percent of the hate crimes reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation are falsified. Another researcher who has closely examined the subject — Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino — puts the hoax rate much lower, at less than half of 1 percent."

Actually, it gets worse for you and Mr Reilly's case. Those figures are based on his "belief". I dont have any interest in his cherry picked pool of 346 hate crimes when there are over 7000 a year all replete with data.

This holds as much water as the mass voter fraud claims. Fake news all around.
 
Do you hear that sound? Its moving goalposts after getting wrecked by the facts.
course diss GIF
Or just make up numbers 🤷‍♂️

"Wilfred Reilly, a political scientist at Kentucky State University and author of “Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War,” believes that fewer than 2 out of 10 reported hate crimes are fabricated.

Again from the man himself:

Mr. Reilly eventually compiled a database of 346 hate-crime allegations and determined that less than a third were genuine. Turning his attention to the hoaxes, he put together a data set of more than 400 confirmed cases of fake allegations that were reported to authorities between 2010 and 2017. He allows that the exact number of false reports is probably unknowable, but what can be said “with absolute confidence is that the actual number of hate crime hoaxes is indisputably large,” he writes. “We are not speaking here of just a few bad apples.”

“In the mainstream media we hear almost constant talk about scary new forms of racism: ‘white privilege,’ ‘cultural appropriation,’ and ‘subtle bigotry,’ ” Mr. Reilly writes, yet “a huge percentage of the horrific hate crimes cited as evidence of contemporary bigotry are fakes.”
 
Or just make up numbers 🤷‍♂️

"Wilfred Reilly, a political scientist at Kentucky State University and author of “Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War,” believes that fewer than 2 out of 10 reported hate crimes are fabricated.

Again from the man himself:

Mr. Reilly eventually compiled a database of 346 hate-crime allegations and determined that less than a third were genuine. Turning his attention to the hoaxes, he put together a data set of more than 400 confirmed cases of fake allegations that were reported to authorities between 2010 and 2017. He allows that the exact number of false reports is probably unknowable, but what can be said “with absolute confidence is that the actual number of hate crime hoaxes is indisputably large,” he writes. “We are not speaking here of just a few bad apples.”

“In the mainstream media we hear almost constant talk about scary new forms of racism: ‘white privilege,’ ‘cultural appropriation,’ and ‘subtle bigotry,’ ” Mr. Reilly writes, yet “a huge percentage of the horrific hate crimes cited as evidence of contemporary bigotry are fakes.”
I'm not sure how much clearer I can be:
1) Both statements are by the same person: Mr Reilly. At best he is unreliable and at worst he is purposfully misleading people based on his political convictions.
2) His review of 346 hate crimes between 2010-2017 is a completely cherry picked statistic. There were over 6,628 reported incidents to 7,314 PER YEAR from 2010-2019. (SOURCE) So out of ~49,000 hate crime incidents in that 2010-2017 time period he focuses on 349 or 7 tenths of one percent of hate crimes and draws a conclusion about all of them. Does that seem legit to you?

Your original assertion is based on pure fantasy, plain and simple.
 
I'm not sure how much clearer I can be:
1) Both statements are by the same person: Mr Reilly. At best he is unreliable and at worst he is purposfully misleading people based on his political convictions.
2) His review of 346 hate crimes between 2010-2017 is a completely cherry picked statistic. There were over 6,628 reported incidents to 7,314 PER YEAR from 2010-2019. (SOURCE) So out of ~49,000 hate crime incidents in that 2010-2017 time period he focuses on 349 or 7 tenths of one percent of hate crimes and draws a conclusion about all of them. Does that seem legit to you?

Your original assertion is based on pure fantasy, plain and simple.
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