White Supremacist groups on the rise in U.S.

CorporateWhore wrote:

"In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens."
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html

"Hispanics are 3.3 times more likely to be in prison than whites; they are 4.2 times more likely to be in prison for murder, and 5.8 times more likely to be in prison for felony drug crimes.

Young Hispanics are 19 times more likely than young whites (and slightly more likely than young blacks) to be in youth gangs."

-amren.com

These are facts. Stop fooling yourself.

polaris wrote:

this is what happens when you live in a fundamentalist country where the gap between rich and poor is high and the value of oneself is measured in wealth

A Surprise Left wrote:

Hispanics might have a higher crime rate than the general population but there would be many ethinc groups that fit into that category. Australian Aboringes for instance have a much higher crime rate than the general population? Should we deport our first people? Obviously not.......

Restless Soul wrote:

"The illegal immigrant population is full of crime and lack of education.


That is such a massive generalisation! You've totally undermined any credibility you might have had with this comment, imo.

zstillings wrote:

Name for me one illegal immigrant who has not broken the law.

SundaySilence wrote:

I'm not sure, but has a child who has been taken across the border by his parents broken the law?

zstillings wrote:

Name for me one illegal immigrant who has not broken the law.

Restless Soul wrote:

It doesn't matter. It’s these kinds of poor sweeping generalisations about huge swathes of people that causes problems and influences far-right types who can’t think for themselves. These generalisations comes round over and over again, throughout history. Same crap different group.

Not long ago, (and still now in fact), black people were seen as "full of crime and lack of education" just because they were black. That was the reason, their colour. I’ve even seen that attitude on this board sometimes.

There's always a reason for more powerful or mainstream groups to pick on an outsider group, and if they don't have a reason they invent one. If the high numbers of Mexicans weren’t illegal they’d probably be slammed for something else: eg: for being on benefits or having low intelligence or something, which is what happened to the Irish. (remember the Englishman, Scottishman, Irishman jokes anyone?). It even happens to poor single mums for god’s sake!

It also creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, especially amongst younger generations who feel that they can’t do anything right because they are always targeted by the authorities with the attitude that they are bad. So they end up being “bad”, getting into drugs and gangs etc, just to survive. Which in turn reinforces the negative views of their critics and reaffirms their own beliefs that they are bad.

IMO sweeping negative generalisations of a particular group, regardless of any truth, is one of the reasons why there are disprortionately high numbers of Mexicans and blacks in the criminal justice system – not because they are both inherently “bad” ethnicities, but because some people choose to see them as such, such as the authorities, the establishment, mainsteam society etc, and target them as such over white groups. It’s easier to judge others, especially if they are different to you, than look at underlying factors, such as poverty, discrimination and inequality of opportunities. I agree with polaris on this aspect.