United States Of Hate Case Study

In America Many people perceive people that commit hate crimes as crazed, hate-filled neo-Nazis or \\"skinheads\\". But in all actually these crimes are committed by people like you and me in some senses it could be your next door neighbor or your best friend but research by Dr. Edward Dunbar, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, reveals that of 1,459 hate crimes committed in the Los Angeles area in the period 1994 to

Since the election of Donald Trump, the country seems to be in a state of division. Protests against the president’s executive orders and movements like Black Lives Matter has caused many hate groups to make a reappearance into the main-stream media. White supremacist, white nationalists, and alt-right leaders are speaking their minds about the perceived discrimination against whites. These types of white advocacy groups have gone through an evolution since the times of the Ku Klux Klan and have created new techniques for recruiting members. These units can be a type of love/hate relationship, and once people have joined, they find it very difficult to leave. But hate can be overcome; through education, tolerance training, and even counter-protesting. Because of feelings of discontent, fear in the loss of white power, and a lack of experience with groups outside of their race, America is seeing a dangerous and unfortunate rise in these types of hate groups.

<br>Right now, there are many active hate groups in the United States such as the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi, Skinheads, Christian identity, Black Separatists, etc. These hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, which is one of America's oldest and more feared, use violence and move above the law to promote their different causes. Another example is a group called Christian Identity, who describes a religion that is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic; and other are the Black Separatist groups, who are organizations whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred. Because of the information gathered by the Intelligence Project from hate groups' publications, citizen's reports, law enforcement agencies, field

While hate crime is a fairly new label for a crime, the existence of hate crimes has been present since the early days of the United States. Throughout US history, murders, assaults, and destruction of property has occurred against African Americans, American Indians, Irish immigrants, Asian Americans, Latino’s, gays, the mentally handicapped, and all other groups of minorities. Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, there has been an increase in racial based attacks against those of Middle Eastern descent, whether they are Muslim or not. Of all of these, African Americans are subjected to the highest number of hate crimes (Martin 1996), with Muslims, homosexuals, and transgendered people on

In 2009, 6,604 hate crime incidents were reported to the FBI, 48.8% of which were motivated by race, 19.7% by religious prejudice, 18.5%by sexual orientation, 11.8% by ethnicity, and 1.5% by disability bias (Hate Crime Statistics, 2009). Recently, the FBI released the 2010 statistics that unfortunately reveal a slight increase in the number of hate crime incidents: 6,628 incidents were reported in 2010, 47.3% of which were motivated by race, 20% by religious prejudice, 19.3% by sexual orientation, 12.8% by ethnicity, and .6% by disability bias (Hate Crime Statistics, 2010). While racially-motivated and disability-motivated crimes appear to have decreased, hate crime motivated by religion, sexual orientation, and ethnicity has risen in the last year. Improvements in hate crime laws and punishments are necessary in order for these statistics to decrease.

In the book The Hate List by Jennifer Brown, the story is told from the point of view of Valerie Leftman, the girlfriend of Nick Levil. Nick shot multiple people in their school and injured more. Valerie unknowingly helped him create the list of victims. I think the book could have been as interesting if it was told from the point of view of Ginny Baker. Ginny Baker was shot by Nick in the face. She had to have multiple plastic surgeries to reconstruct something that even remotely resembled a face. “’I can’t sit here without thinking about… about…’ she sucked in a breath and then let it out with a stream an anguish that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. ‘Why did they let her come back?’” (Brown 69). Ginny is traumatized by the

Confucius once explain that, "An Oppressive government is to be feared more than a tiger". Ideally, a political system that has been formed on hatred and torment is a system that will be feared enough to be followed, but not forever. George Orwell 's 1984 was published in 1949 during the heated conflict of Word War II and consists of a government known as the Party which symbolizes the totalitarian governments of the war. This fictional novel depicts Orwell 's hypothesis of what the world would eventually be like if the totalitarianistic governments of his time we 're not abolished. The novel itself does not clarify the fall of the hate-driven Party, but the appendix describes the eventual death of this government. Much like Nazi Germany and Communist Russia of World War II, the Party is fictional proof that a government developed off of hate and fear would become painfully immoral and inhumane but would never infinitely survive.

Hate crimes are many different criminal acts such as vandalism, arson, assault, and even murder. Many hate crimes are based on an individual’s race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and disabilities. Everyone can be potential victims of hate crimes. Anyone from any social class can be considered targets for hate crimes. If you or a group believes in a different religion or speaks a different language and the offenders do not approve, then they will target you. No one can be really safe and overcome hate crimes if they are being targeted. It is a cruel and depressing world. With help as a community can stop hate crimes.

Critical preface: I choose to explore the hate crime problem in society. The reason I choose this topic is because hate crime is a brutal act against people, property, or society because of the group to which they are members or associate with. The hate crime is one of the most notorious crimes which leads to violent acts causing death and disaster. We need to stop these horrible acts and the solution would be to seek advice from an anti-hate organization which help us reduce hate crimes and factual information can then be spread to the society.

Second of all, hate groups exist in every aspect of the United States. For example, the Westboro Baptist Church is symbol of hate,

The group I decided to focus on was the Black Separatist. The ideology and “mission” for this group is that black separatists will deny integration and racially mixed marriages while wanting individual institutions and even nations for black individuals in the United States. They are usually anti-white and anti-Semitic. SPLC understands that racism should be made public in all forms. A reported hate incident is the Nation of Islam with the leader being Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan did not reject any of the ideas of anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-gay and anti-Catholic ideas that the leader Elijah Mohammed had before. Farrakhan believes that Jews and Catholics attack blacks. He wanted racial segregation and denounced against integrated affiliations.

Hate groups ruin the childhoods of many and ruin the lives of others with their ideas. We need to provide a better program for kids having family problems. Along with that, there should be more security in religious places like temples. Hate groups are

According to SPLC, a hate group is one which has “beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” CNN published a report featuring a map of hate groups that include Christian organizations, and a link to an explanation as to why those groups were included in the list.

The victims of hate crimes are usually based on minority’s, gays, different race, religion, gender, or disability. Hate crimes can take place in many places, “including schools and houses of worship, commercial and government buildings, restaurants and nightclubs, parking lots and garages, playgrounds and parks, and even medical facilities.”("2016 Hate Crime Statistics"). The perpetrators target the victims because they want to induce fear in the people. Hate crimes can be shown through, protests, graffiti, verbal contact between groups, and/ or

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