1. GENOCIDE & HATE

2. HATE GROUPS
Form of a gang
Feel “Superior”
Seek to exclude and harm

3. Hate Groups Target Societies . . .
With a diverse Population
With a struggling economy
With a lack of connectedness
With an insider/outsider mentality

4. Hate Groups Count On . . . A visible presence of hate
The silence of good people

5. Hate Groups Offer . . . Protection Prestige Scapegoat Family
Justification

6. SILENCE Welcome Mat For Hate
“All that is necessary for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.”
~ Edmund Burke~

7. 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

8. GENOCIDES Mao Ze-Dong (China) 49 – 78 million
Stalin (Russia & Ukraine) 23 million
Hitler (Holocaust) 12 million
Armenia million
Pol Pot (Cambodia) 1.7 million
Kim Il Sung (Korea) 1.6 million
Ethiopia million
Biafra 1 million
Rwanda 800,000 +

9. 21st Century Genocide
DARFUR – 2003 – present
400,000 dead
2.5 million displaced
100 die every month

10. Human life is the first casualty of genocide, whether it be in Rwanda, in Sudan, or in Europe some 60 years ago. But also at stake is our humanity, for a fundamental tenant of human decency is that we care for those around us, that we confront suffering and abuse, that we protect the vulnerable.
~ John Podesta ~