Umm...exactly?

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

David Neiwert wrote a fantastic defense of hate crime legislation last week. Jesse from Pandagon weighs in this week.

Malkin, on the other hand, like many conservatives, has not been all that impressed. Here she links to a guy who thinks that all interracial crime should be considered a hate crime - because blacks commit more crimes against whites than vice versa. Here and here she took great joy in reporting that certain crimes had been mis- or fraudulently reported as hate crimes.

But in the sad case of the Armanious family murders in New Jersey...well, let's just hear from her:

[A] radical Islamist website has been tracking Christians on the online chat forum, Paltalk--which was frequented by Hossan Armanious...

In response to this, she quotes Robert Spencer:

If the Armanious family did in fact receive a death threat related to their proselytizing on Pal Talk, what are the implications for our free society? If the murders were indeed, as many Copts suspect, a warning to them not to proselytize among Muslims, what does that mean for the free exchange of ideas that has always been one of the central values -- perhaps the central value -- of the American polity?

Psst: That's precisely why liberals are in favor of hate crime legislation.

Just sayin'.