Harvard student taunted, chased, robbed

it must have been affleck

...is that it happened around the corner from the Harvard Police HQ, if I"m picturing Garden street properly. The assailants were stupid on more than one level.

Yes, hate speech and intimidation are real funny. *sigh*

No, hate crimes are not funny. The comments above are not really about the reported act so much as the kind of attitude that one can recognize in the assailants. I'd wager a big Bertuccis's tab that if there are any non-heterosexual individuals involved in this case, it's far more likely to be the assailants than the victim who was simply walking in one of the more presumably safer places around town (I mean Garden Street?...really?).

Having grown up around here as a male (still am), the whole "Hey you effin' fag what are you lookin at?" is something that I've seen and been the subject of more times than I can count. It's a hate crime in the sense that if the target is actually gay, then there you go. If you aren't, you're still a target of some pin-heads misplaced aggression and self-hatred. It's a whole lot more complicated than "he said disparaging things about homosexuals, it's a hate crime." It's more of a "he will say disparaging things about everyone because he's a dick." You will notice it was more than one dick ganging up on one victim walking alone. I'm sure these winners have a little bolus of hatred ready for any and every one that walks past them at night when they're drunk.

Any joking being done here is at the expense of the celebrities mentioned (known for playing characters or perhaps being characters of that sort) or the actual assailants in this case. It is not intended to perpetuate gender/orientation slurs much less violence against anyone for any reason. If this needs to be said everytime someone posts something on this blog that doesn't sound like it came out of Mother Teresa's mouth, we're in trouble.