The debate over a proposed hate-crime law in Arkansas is growing as confused and surreal as the concept of hate crime itself. Not all prejudices would be equal under this law. Nope, none of those prejudices are punishable under this bill. It would still be legal in Arkansas to hate Republicans. Like greed, revenge, envy, or just general cussedness.
Absurdities soon surface.
One hesitates to guess. This discussion is already sufficiently absurd. That is the risk one runs when one discusses an absurd law. Concealed speakers will also broadcast screams of torture victims. The owner even wants to construct a railway for the park so visitors can be transported around in cattle cars, just like the 30,000 Lithuanians Stalin shipped to Siberia and murdered.