According to the FBI Crime Data Explorer, hate crime offenses with an anti-white bias have reached their highest levels in 20 years.
There were 1,072 such hate crime offenses last year — the most since 2000, when there were 1,088. These hate crimes tend to go under the radar because the media, politicians, pundits, academicians, and other “experts” tend to play up such stories only when they advance a leftist narrative about the ubiquity and danger of white supremacy.
The Left’s rhetoric has been replete with racialist, and just plain racist, anti-white rhetoric, which has really picked up in the last five years. This includes all the insinuations that whites living today are privileged and thus culpable for racist violence by other whites, both living and long dead.
Racism is properly defined as antipathy toward or discrimination against people on the basis of their race. Perhaps it’s easier to recognize when you see people apply the logic of resentment and stereotypes to blacks or other nonwhite groups, but collective resentment and punishment of entire groups of people for no reason other than their race are completely racist ideas, no matter what ethnic group they belong to.
In that context, the fact that more and more white people are being targeted for violence comes as no surprise. The popular woke message nowadays is that they deserve it.
Perhaps it seemed harmless in May when Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she would accept interview requests only from nonwhite journalists. Maybe no one was excessively afraid or appalled when psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani told an audience at the Yale School of Medicine that she fantasized about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step.”
Maybe people were not too concerned when Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper, a black woman, said that she thinks “white people are committed to being villains,” or said of whites that “we got to take these motherf***ers out.” But this sort of hate speech, while protected by the First Amendment, is deeply irresponsible and affects others’ behavior. It is also revisionist history, as Cooper failed to acknowledge the white people who started the abolitionist movement, died to end slavery, and fought for racial equality. But people hear hatred and discrimination toward whites being normalized, and they act out by committing hate crimes that they may feel are justified.
Liberals and Democrats style themselves as defenders of racial equality (or “equity,” if you must). But when they use their platforms to attack and denigrate white people because of their race, they are encouraging precisely the kind of hate crimes that FBI data show just hit a record high.
