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On "Hate" Crime
by Resisting Defamation
Hate crime is the theme at the beginning of the 21st century that is most
frequently used by the dominant media culture and corporate entertainment
culture to defame European Americans, and in particular to defame young
European American men between nineteen and twenty-six years of age.
To understand how hate crime discourse is used to defame European Americans,
it is important to understand that all complaint and arrest records
consistently show that European Americans perform a smaller share of hate
crimes than their population share. That is, European Americans are
under-represented as members of the class of actual hate crime perpetrators.
Publicity
Hate crime publicity in the print and electronic media, however,
repetitiously over-represents European Americans as hate crime perpetrators
by portraying them as committing a share of hate crimes that is far larger
than their true share of the class of hate crime perpetrators.
Publicity by the dominant media culture and films by the corporate
entertainment culture portray European Americans as performing at least 98%
of all hate crimes, a vastly larger share than the share of hate crimes that
European Americans actually perpetrate.
Hate crimes perpetrated by non-European Americans are almost never reported
by the national media and are certainly never made the subject of repeated
news stories, day after day, as is the case when the accused perpetrator is a
European American. The truth of this accusation is supported by the utter
lack of any national coverage of serial, race-based, hate crime murders and
assaults in December 2000 in Wichita, Kansas, which saw six European
Americans murdered and one assaulted survivor in three separate killing
sprees. This horrendous series of hate crimes was completely covered up by
national media.
Selective Prosecution
Selective prosecution is the order of the day with some local district
attorneys in California who illegally and unconstitutionally over-prosecute
European Americans in comparison to the share of hate crimes perpetrated by
European Americans.
In many jurisdictions, including Santa Clara County in California, European
Americans find themselves prosecuted at about a 90% rate of all prosecutions
for hate crimes which is much larger than the European American share of
actual hate crimes.
A good example of how this is done can be found in the office of the Santa
Clara County District Attorney. That office made the switch in late 1995 or
early 1996 from enforcing hate crime statutes even-handedly to processing
accusations according to race and gender.
In 1995, the DA's office prosecuted seven alleged hate crime incidents. The
eight defendants included two Hispanic Males, two Black Males, one Black
Female, and three White Males. Victims included two Vietnamese Females, one
East Indian Male, three White Males, and one Korean Male.
In 1996, however, the DA's office prosecuted nine alleged hate crime
incidents with all the defendants being either White Males or Hispanic Males,
and only one White Male victim. The same pattern continued through 1997, the
last year for which we have these statistics.
The publicity and prosecutions that over-represent European American hate
crime perpetrators are a powerful tool for the campaign of defamation against
European Americans, especially young European American men.
FBI Fraud
FBI fraudulently promotes an image of ordinary European Americans as hate
criminals by dishonestly manipulating hate crime statistics. FBI's dishonest
statistical collection and reporting program results in outcomes like these
two examples:
If a Mexican-American attacks a Jewish-American with hate, the victim is
counted in the Jewish victim category, because Jews are recognized as a
victim group. However, Hispanics or Latinos are not recognized as a group
whose members commit hate crimes, so their hate crimes are counted in the
White perpetrator category, thus pumping up the White perpetrator category
numbers.
If a Jewish-American attacks a Mexican-American with hate, the victim is
counted in the Hispanic victim category, because Hispanics are recognized as
a victim group. However, Jewish-Americans are not recognized as a group whose
members commit hate crimes, so their hate crimes are counted in the White
perpetrator category, thus pumping up the White perpetrator category numbers.
Another example of how FBI statistical manipulation works is to be found in
Los Angeles County hate crime records for 1997. There were two murders and
seven attempted murders that were considered hate crimes in that calendar
year. All nine of the perpetrators were Latino (or Hispanic), so FBI recorded
those nine perpetrators in the White perpetrator category. Remember that FBI
refuses to admit that Latinos (or Hispanics) can be perpetrators of hate
crimes for statistical purposes. This added nine very serious hate crimes to
the White perpetrator category statistics for 1997.
These and other conscious manipulations of hate crime statistics by FBI
dishonestly boost the hate crimes listed under the White perpetrator category
to a very considerable degree, but FBI still cannot show that the total share
of White perpetrators in FBI statistics equals the population share of
European Americans.
Besides manipulating hate crime statistics, FBI uses its Training Guide For
Hate Crime Data Collection as a way of portraying European Americans as
particularly guilty of hate crimes, and never as victims of hate crime. The
following discussion discloses information contained on pages 22 and 23 of
the Training Guide.
For example, the Training Guide provides no training exercise that portrays a
European American as a hate crime victim, but it does use the example of a
white male as a perpetrator of hate crimes. No other person is pictured by
ethnicity or gender as a potential perpetrator in the Training Guide's
training exercises.
In addition, the Training Guide falsely states the law to those it trains in
a particular way. The Guide correctly states that hate crimes are based on
the perception held by the perpetrators about the victim, not the actual
characteristics of the victim. But the Training Guide goes on to dishonestly
state in the fourth training exercise that the perception of the perpetrators
gives rise to a hate crime when the perception of the perpetrator is that the
victim is "a member of a minority against which they are biased."
That is a big lie, because anyone can be a victim of a hate crime whether or
not he or she is a member of a minority group, or is perceived to be a member
of a minority group. Hate crime laws do not attempt to distinguish between
European Americans and so-called minority group members as the victims or as
the perpetrators.
Besides pumping up the White perpetrator category numbers, FBI engages in
wholesale under-reporting of European American victims. An example is FBI
statistics for 1996 which claim that there was only one hate crime murder in
the White victim category that year. However, on 2/9/96, five European
Americans were murdered for racially-motivated reasons in Florida by a person
in another ethnic group. To date, FBI has refused to list these victims under
the White victim category. Similarly, the December 2000 race-based killing
spree in Kansas that killed six European Americans and assaulted another has
seen FBI refuse to list these victims under the White victim category.
To understand the callously vicious attitude of FBI toward European
Americans, reflect on the fact that FBI refuses to classify the violent hate
crime against Reginald Denny in 1992 in Los Angeles as a hate crime in the
White victim category.
For the serious student of FBI hate crime statistical manipulation, a lengthy
article that appeared in the 2/13/98 San Francisco Chronicle in the business
section is recommended. The article discussed the conviction of Richard
Machado, immigrant from El Salvador and one-time UC college student, for
sending threatening email messages to fifty-nine Asian American students at
UC in Irvine in 1996.
ADL, ACLU, and FBI spokespersons were prominently quoted in the article, but
maintained a provocative silence about how these fifty-nine hate crimes would
be reported and counted. They maliciously neglected to explain that the
fifty-nine hate crimes by a Latino (or Hispanic) immigrant were assigned to
the White perpetrator category, thus dishonestly pumping up the numbers in
the White perpetrator category by fifty-nine hate crimes in 1996.
RESISTING DEFAMATION
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