Who are the victims of hate crimes?
This is just a reminder that listening to the nightly news can be hazardous to your mind.
If you watch the news you would assume that every gay person is a victim of violent assault. However when you look at the statistics you realize that we are putting emphasis on the wrong area. What percentage of all aggravated assaults are hate crimes against gays? 0.02827578411446785%. Homosexuals make up about 2-3% of America’s population, so you would expect that an epidemic of hate crimes against homosexuals to be anything over 2% of the assaults.
The problem with political correctness is that it keeps you from looking at reality.
The current media template is Americans are profiling young Muslim men (not) and they are victims of hate crimes. Is that the big hate crimes problem? Nope, “hate crimes” against Catholics are statistically about the same as Muslims. People of Jewish faith are ten times more likely to be victims of violence than Islamic. (hmmm, who is leading the attacks against Jews in America?)
I don’t want to sound like I am advocating more assaults against any group, but we are putting limited government resources in areas that are statistically not the problem. Just because it is on the news, doesn’t mean it is really a problem.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/12721/naples-fla-kick-a-jew-day-jibes-w-fbi-hate-crimes-figs/
Tactics -- it's how you implement strategy. You use tactics all the time and they are being used against YOU too. You want to get out of the store quickly, so you make tactical judgments which line to get in, or to ask the manager to open another lane. Or it is bigger, like how you fire someone, or force them to quit. Some tactics you find ethical, others you may think are sleazy -- I'm not asking you to use a tactic, but being ignorant of a tactic doesn't make you virtuous; it just makes you a victim.