The introduction of this reading really caught my attention. Many people have been bullied and harassed because of their sexuality. McDonalds case is one of the Many cases that have been brought to light. Not only was this a hate crime towards McDonalds sexuality. but also to her race. McDonalds retaliated out of and her actions, unintentionally, killing Schmitz. The whole case and trial proceedings was unfair. Information about Schmitz was being withheld from the court in order to discredit McDonalds. “While there are any number of legal justifications for including or excluding information from court proceedings, it is meaningful that McDonald was subjected to strategies commonly used to discredit people of color, women, and/or people who are poor…”
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