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Hate Groups/Speech/Crimes. The Westboro Baptist Church are notorious for their racy signs and their picketing at the funerals of service men and women. It’s Cool to Hate…. Let The Offspring tell us all about it. There are some good connections with school!. Bell-Ringer.
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Hate Groups/Speech/Crimes The Westboro Baptist Church are notorious for their racy signs and their picketing at the funerals of service men and women.
It’s Cool to Hate… Let The Offspring tell us all about it. There are some good connections with school!
Bell-Ringer Can you honestly say that you “hate” somebody? Without mentioning a specific person/group, why do you have this particular hate?
Congress has defined a hate crime as a "criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.“ • Similarly, if you commit an offense against someone because you PERCEIVE them to belong to one of the above mentioned groups, this can also constitute a hate crime. • According to the FBI, hate groups are groups whose primary purpose is to promote animosity, hostility, and malice against persons belonging to a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin which differs from that of the members of the organization. • The Southern Poverty Law Center counted 1,002 active hate groups in the United States in 2010. In New Jersey, 47 hate groups have been identified. • In November of 2009, President Obama signed the most comprehensive hate crime law to date, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA). The law provides more partnerships between the feds and states to better address hate violence.
New Jersey has its own provisions for addressing hate violence. Our hate crimes statutes address bias-motivated violence and intimidation towards race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disability, political affiliation, age, and transgender/gender identity. • Our state’s statutes also provide that a court may enhance penalty for crimes committed "with a purpose to intimidate an individual or group because of race, color, gender, handicap, religion, sexual orientation or ethnicity.“ • This means that you can get a harsher punishment if it is discovered you committed a violent act against someone because of their belonging to one of the above mentioned groups. • In a 2010 study of the FBI, over 6,500 hate/bias crimes were reported. Hate crimes directed at individuals because of race, religion, sexual orientation, and national origin all increased slightly – with a significant increase in the number of reported anti-Islamic crimes. • These stats could be under-represented because not all law enforcement agencies are required to participate in this data collection process.
Activity • Log on to the computers, open the Internet browser, and type in http://www.splcenter.org • Click at the top where it says “Fighting Hate.” Read the short article located on this page. • Next, click on the right-hand side where it says “Hate Map.” Read the short article about Active U.S. hate groups and investigate the places on the map where there seem to be higher/lower numbers of hate groups. • Select the pull-down menu for the state of NJ. Examine the various hate groups located in our state and click on one of interest. • Click on the left hand side where it says “Hate Incidents.” Examine hate incidents in our state from 2012-2013 (newest are first).
