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From the SPLC’s Hatewatch:

A single benefactor made cryptocurrency donations worth more than $216,000 to extremists and hate groups between September 2021 and April 2022, according to an analysis provided to Hatewatch by the SPLC’s Data Lab.

Details at the link.

Going back to Philosophy 101, I’ll start by defining a term:

The FBI defines hate crimes as “criminal offense[s] against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.”

Romeo Vitelli, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, takes a look at the opposition of hate crime laws. Not surprisingly, he finds that those who oppose hate crime laws are motivated by (wait for it) hate. Here’s a tiny little bit from his much longer article:

. . . the researchers found an association between prejudice against Hispanic, Asian, and Black communities and opposition to hate-crime laws.

Follow the link for context.

Michael in Norfolk sees through the sham. Here’s a bit of his post:

. . . I long a go came to the conclusion that there is nothing Christian in the true sense about these people. Yes, there is lots of feigned piety and wearing of religion on one’s sleeve and self-labeling as “Christian”, but when it comes to witnessing Christ’s message of love, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, it simply is nowhere to be seen. Instead, there are daily displays of hatred towards others, overt racism by I would argue the vast majority of evangelicals, and the constant dehumanizing of anyone who does not adhere to a religion that boils down to a cherry picked selection of Old Testament passages with no concern for the New Testament message.

Driven to destruction.

Brownsville (Texas–ed.) police say seven people were killed Sunday morning and it appears they may have been intentionally run over by a motorist.

We are a broken society.

(With a broken link, which is now unbroken.)

Trials, not to mention convictions, on the charge of seditious conspiracy are rare, but four leaders of the they-call-themselves Proud Boys beat the odds and were found guilty.

At the Inky, Philadelphia activist Gwen Snyder details the years of harassment she has endured from the they-call-themselves Proud Boys. This was how it started; follow the link for full account.

The first time the Proud Boys came to my home to threaten me, I was out of state, traveling to attend a family function. It was June 2019, and they arrived at nearly midnight.

My downstairs neighbor was home, out on our building’s porch for a smoke break. The far-right gang members approached him, demanding to know if I was there.

He didn’t know, he told them. They demanded that he tell me to stop writing about their racist activities and posting members’ names on Twitter. Then they plastered a sticker with their logo onto my front door. They placed more around the neighborhood for good measure.

Image via Balloon-Juice, which has commentary.

Via Yellowdoggranny.

At NJ.com, Lisa Davis takes a deep look at the efforts of Republicans, particularly in the South, to pretend that history isn’t. A snippet.

Attacks on knowledge generally, and African-American history specifically, are an attempt to erase the gains of the 20th century and return this country to one of patriarchal white supremacist rule.

Read the whole piece for her reasoning.

Florida Man, in his own words . . . .

The Detroit Free Press’s Keith A. Owens decodes de code of de day: “anti-woke.” The short version: it’s a war against history and fact. Here’s a bit from his article:

. . . the attempt to protect the people from the threat of fact-based intelligence isn’t just going on in Florida, it’s a Hail Mary arcing across the entire country promoting the desperate MAGA belief that if they can just turn out the lights in America’s classrooms fast enough, maybe the kids won’t realize they’re sitting in a dark room. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll stop being woke and become convinced it was always that way.

The entire piece is worth your while.