You're all missing the point.
We had all the laws in place to protect all minority groups here.
Massive amounts of legislation to make sure we aren't prejudiced towards them.
The jail sentences handed out for white on black crime, atheist v religious crime and homophobic crime are all quite rightly extremely high.
Whereas on the flip side it was almost impossible to charge someone from a minority of any sort with a hate crime.
They were all protected on the basis that they're a minority.
Now though, well once the bill comes into play, blacks, gays and religious people will face the same punishments the white, straight atheists get for stepping out of line.
The minorities have basically just removed all the things we put in place to protect them.
They will now be able to be prosecuted by the same laws we put in place to protect them from racists, bigots and homophobes.
That's what all this protesting has achieved here. Just made life harder for themselves because they went about it the wrong way.
Everyone's just doing what so many people here do. Running around screaming prejudice and hoping it sticks.
Instead of dealing with the actual issues.
So now because of that we've had to broaden the spectrum of hate crimes to include things that most minorities will see as suppression of free speech etc when in reality were just treating them the same as we do for the majority.
They're now getting " equality "