Hube spews his racist venom on the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committe’s report, Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab Americans. First off, Hube’s little racist rant is hat-tipped to News Busters which is basically run by Brent Bozell, one of the infamous smear-taticians of the Radical Right. The Times of India photo above was included in the hat-tipped story. Oh yeah, News Busters captioned the photo, Islamic Rage Boy. But I digress.
Hube quotes a Reuters story which he uses to back up his lame rants about the liberal media but, more importantly, tries to back up his falsifiability that the Radical Right is not racist. Hube writes:
Got that? Even though “many incidents did not begin with a clear motivation of bias,” since eventually a racial or ethnic slur was uttered, voilà —instant hate crime, according to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Utilizing this “definition,” my example from above has to be a “hate crime”: The initial motivation may be economic, but if a racial epithet is spewed in the process of the mugging, it’s now [also] a “hate crime.”
But as usual the Radical Right bloggers only tell you part of the story. Let me quote from the report which Hube has not read, since Hube was too lazy to do so.
First, the hate crimes did not always begin with a clear motivation of bias. Rather, they would develop in that direction as the altercation intensified. In numerous instances, racial, religious or ethnic slurs would be employed not at the outset but after a dispute leading to violence or threats of violence had already begun.
Hube instead of blogging about what your other Radical Right bloggers post about, you could have glanced at the report and actually read what the ADC wrote. They are saying, and I am typing very slowly for Hube right now, the ADC is saying that the crimes might not begin as a hate crime, but they would end that way. I am under no allusion illusion that Hube will understand the subtleties of their point.