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GENOCIDE & HATE. HATE GROUPS. Form of a gang Feel “Superior” Seek to exclude and harm. Hate Groups Target Societies. With a diverse Population With a struggling economy With a lack of connectedness With an insider/outsider mentality. Hate Groups Count On.
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HATE GROUPS • Form of a gang • Feel “Superior” • Seek to exclude and harm
Hate Groups Target Societies . . . • With a diverse Population • With a struggling economy • With a lack of connectedness • With an insider/outsider mentality
Hate Groups Count On . . . • A visible presence of hate • The silence of good people
Hate Groups Offer . . . • Protection • Prestige • Scapegoat • Family • Justification
SILENCE • Welcome Mat For Hate “All that is necessary for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke~
Active Hate Groups in U.S. 2009 • 932 Known Groups • 28 in Pennsylvania • 187 Ku Klux Klan • 161 Neo-Nazi • 132 White Nationalist • 122 Racist Skinhead • 121 Black Separatist
GENOCIDES • Mao Ze-Dong (China) 49 – 78 million • Stalin (Russia & Ukraine) 23 million • Hitler (Holocaust) 12 million • Armenia 1.2 million • Pol Pot (Cambodia) 1.7 million • Kim Il Sung (Korea) 1.6 million • Ethiopia 1. 5 million • Biafra 1 million • Rwanda 800,000 +
21st Century Genocide • DARFUR – 2003 – present • 400,000 dead • 2.5 million displaced • 100 die every month
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocides and for the same reason that psychologists study the mind of murderers and rapists . . .to understand how those evil things came about.” ~ Ali Aoun~