Hate groups are defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as groups with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people.
According to a new study by the SPLC, U.S. hate groups have grown in number by 54 percent since 2000, and in 2008 alone they grew in number by 4 percent.
According to CNN:
Tags: hate, Southern Poverty Law CenterDr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who studied the issue of hate crimes, said people in hate groups can feel paranoid about a specific group of people. This panic leads them to feel threatened, and they may react with violence, he said.
Alternately, individuals in a hate group may sometimes transplant their own personal rage onto a particular group that has no real connection to the cause of that rage, he said.
“Their thinking is very distorted,” Poussaint said.
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Feel very sorry for these kind of people. They can never live a peaceful life filled with such hatred. They will end up wasting their lives.. It’s too bad that they can’t let go of their hatred and turn a new leaf.. It’s a shame.. It’s too bad..
Comment by Joe — February 26, 2009 @ 4:58 pm
it hurts me so much to see that people actually, in this day in age, believe and support these distorted ideas of hate groups. it makes my blood boil! what do they think they’re going to accomplish by getting together and hating on people that are different from them? maybe if they start handing out bleach pills and baptist pills, we’ll all convert to their pigheaded thinking. ahh! this is just awful…
Comment by k — February 26, 2009 @ 5:03 pm
According to the article hate groups have been growing rapidly since 2000. If I look at that statistic then I would have to blame the Republican Administration for it. BUT, I am wiser than that.
Hate groups have always been here. Most have been silent and perhaps frightened by those who are different from them – afraid to speak their mind until they could latch onto a large enough group to protect them. If this group gets busted, the just joined will accuse the group of brainwashing them.
I, also, feel sorry for people who spew hate and wish others dead. They have to have been hurt a lot in their lives to feel so much anger and savage hatred as that. May I make one plea to them? Seek professional counseling so you can try to figure what when and where you grew to hate people you have never met before. I can see hating a person who have harmed you, but to hate an entire race of people is not logical. It is as illogical as the Taliban wanting to kill me (who they have never met) when they do not know my heart.
Comment by Delores — February 27, 2009 @ 1:33 am
when do we get white pride month, everyone else gets one.
Comment by jim — February 27, 2009 @ 3:48 am
In the US, every month is white pride month. When white hetero religious christian males are a powerless minority, oppressed and brutalized because of who they are, they will qualify as an oppressed group, and may then have a pride month.
Comment by DaveTheWave — February 27, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
I suppose that Jim opposes black and Hispanic pride events also.
Comment by Michael Airhart — February 27, 2009 @ 1:24 pm