You can disagree w/ the act of graffiti, but I think calling this an anti-Catholic hate crime is incorrect, at least conceptually, if not legally. Would people be so ready to label it as anti-Catholic hate if the graffiti had been drawn by white victims of child sexual assault?
https://twitter.com/magi_jay/status/1408849295537848327
Here, the protest is not against the Catholic faith. It's not targeting an ethnicity. It is against an institution that has power & inflicted harm. Importantly, the graffiti contains no stereotypes about Catholics; rather, it centers the victims.
Now, I'd hear arguments about graffiti on a specific church that had nothing to do with the murder of a thousand indigenous children. I might not agree, but I'd hear you out. However, even if you think such a thing is unjust, it's not the same as an anti-Catholic hate crime.
And, again, I don't think anyone would make this argument if it were about the Catholic Church's institutionalized abuse of white children. Indigenous children were sexually abused, too. As well as beaten and murdered and left by the hundreds in unmarked graves.
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