Let me break this down to you. The term hate crime means a crime which was motivated by hate for someone’s race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, etc. So for example, if you attacked a person simply because you thought he was gay, and we can figure that you wouldn’t have attacked him otherwise, then you are guilty of a hate crime.

If someone writes an F-bomb on the side of the building, we can’t say that they wouldn’t have written that word otherwise. In fact if you look at most noticeable graffiti, it isn’t legible at all.

Are you aware that Jimmy Hoffa was involved in the mafia? There is no different between the mafia and right winged hate groups.

The SPLC should be ashamed of itself for allowing the F word be published. I guess it’s okay for liberals and leftists use the F word, but free speech by right winged activists is condemned by the likes of the SPLC. Go figure!

There has been furor within the right-wing echo chamber about International Brotherhood of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa Jr.’s speech. However, the right-wing propagandists have taken his comment totally out of context, and it’s clear to anyone who is slightly intelligent to know what Hoffa was saying. He did not mean “take the sons of bitches out” as in, give them cement shoes and kill them. Obviously, the sense in which he used the phrase was that of voting certain politicians (the ones waging a one-sided class war on the poor) out of political office. Hoffa was neither inciting violence, nor propagating “hate speech”, but encouraging people to vote. Of course, Fox dished out spin, as always, but Hoffa’s statement was completely removed from context in order to lay the foundation for Fox’s half-truths.

First of all, the reason why KKK and the F word aren’t the same is that KKK is a political symbol and suggests that the graffiti was painted because someone wanted to intimidate people typically targeted by the KKK. The F word does not make this connotation. People will write or paint words like that on walls for all sorts of non-malicious(albeit stupid) reasons.

Next, yes, you have asked about the Jimmy Hoffa comment, and I destroyed it by providing a link to his biography page. Hoffa was clearly talking about “taking them out of power” as he prefaced his comment with “Everyone’s gotta vote….” And no, some hypothetical scenario involving a conservative pundit saying that about Obama doesn’t refute the fact. Maybe the question YOU ought to be asking is why Fox news neglected to show the quote in full for so long.

As for the Berkeley threats, yes, you need to provide some evidence of this. What the Berkeley bake sale ignores, BTW, is that there are other forms of Affirmative action which benefit white students. For example, having a parent as an alumnus can earn points. Being from a particular area(usually a mostly white area in some states) can earn points, In fact many higher scoring white students are passed over for OTHER WHITE APPLICANTS who scored lower on the entrance exams.

I take it that you believe that SPLC knew about this incident, and willfully omitted it. Is that the case, and if so, what makes you believe it?

Or, was your post more of a protest against what you perceive as biased reporting on the part of SPLC?

Either way, it would serve you well to elaborate. For example, regarding what you mentioned in your post, did anyone report what happened to the campus police? If so, how did they respond? Did the campus papers say anything about it?