Seeing so many hate proud white people...What is Racism

KANEMAN

Saturday, September 4, 2010 1:28 AM

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Originally posted by Niki2:
NOTHING excuses ANY hate crime. However, if one were to bother to list all the hate crimes in America, anti-gay, anti-muslim and anti-black would so far outnumber any argument that could be made, that it's not even worth thinking about.

Oh, what the hell, it only takes a couple of minutes, the FBI keeps statistics:

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Racial bias]

4,704 offenses among single-bias hate crime incidents were racially motivated. Of these offenses:

■72.6 percent were motivated by anti-black bias.
■17.3 percent stemmed from anti-white bias.
■5.5 percent were a result of bias against groups of individuals consisting of more than one race (anti-multiple races, group).
■3.4 percent resulted from anti-Asian/Pacific Islander bias.
■1.3 percent were motivated by anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native bias.

Sexual-orientation bias

Of the single-bias incidents, 1,617 offenses were committed based on sexual-orientation bias. Of these offenses:

■58.6 percent were the result of anti-male homosexual bias.
■25.7 percent were motivated by anti-homosexual bias.
■12.0 percent were prompted by anti-female homosexual bias.
■2.0 percent were the result of anti-heterosexual bias.
■1.7 percent were motivated by anti-bisexual bias.

Religious bias

There were 1,606 hate crime offenses motivated by religious bias in 2008. A breakdown of these offenses shows:

■65.7 percent were anti-Jewish.
■13.2 percent were anti-other religion.
■7.7 percent were anti-Islamic.
■4.7 percent were anti-Catholic.
■4.2 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
■3.7 percent were anti-Protestant.
■0.9 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

Ethnicity/national origin bias

In 2008, law enforcement agencies reported 1,148 offenses were committed based on the perceived ethnicity or national origin of the victim. Of these offenses:

■64.0 percent were due to anti-Hispanic bias.
■36.0 percent were because of anti-other ethnicity/national origin bias.

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http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2008/incidents.html

Those are the most recent statistics available from the FBI, from 2008. That's, 82.8% against all other races, as opposed to 17.3 against Whites. Still wanna compare?

More recently, although there are no statistics:

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The heated debate over Cordoba House, the Islamic community center planned to be constructed two blocks away from Ground Zero, has now turned violent.

While many have voiced concerns that the project's leaders may have ties to terrorism, and that the mosque may be used in order to further a violent, oppressive agenda of Islamist domination, the recent crime wave has in actuality been directed from those opposed to the community center toward Muslims themselves.

This week, vandals have committed a string of hate crimes against a mosque in Madera, just about an hour away from my hometown. A brick was thrown at a window, and menacing signs were left that said "No temple for the god of terrorism" and "Wake up America, the enemy is here."

Fresno Bee

While the people behind these attacks ("The American Nationalist Brotherhood") are undeniably extremists, whom most of the anti-Cordoba crowd would condemn, this is not the only recent incident of anti-Muslim violence, nor is it the scariest.

Earlier this week, a college student slashed the throat and face of a New York cab driver after asking if he was a Muslim. The victim survived.

NYT

Back in May, a pipe bomb was set off at a Florida mosque during morning prayer, where about 60 people were in attendance. Luckily, no one was hurt.

aolnews

If only one of these crimes had occurred, it may have been fair to label it an "isolated incident." But the sheer number and frequency of these acts shut that idea down immediately. This is indicative of a larger trend of anti-Muslim sentiment. A sentiment that has been fostered, I would argue, by the right wing

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