the basic argument we ve been since this rise began in two thourk you have to understand in the 1990s, we cannot have that kind of sustain rise. the numbers bounced around. it is a pretty simple thing. our racial demographics in this country. right around 2000, you saw every major hate group in this country, klan groups, they decided their real number weren t african-americans but latinos. there was a simple reason for that. in 2000, the u.s. census bureau reported in 2042, whites would go into the minority. if you re a white supremacist, that scares the heck out of you. they began focusing all their efforts on latinos and latinos are the demographic threat from their perspective. that has been helping to build their ranks. and the anti-green back lash has been part of that, too. so when people who are not
of? well, i guess i have to dispute the notion of the question on its, on the premise. the fact of the matter is that we ve written about left wing domestic terrorism for almost a decade now coming from animal rights groups, for example. or eeko terrorist types. the criticism we get most heavily from the right wing are complaints about our listing of groups like the family research council or the american family association as anti-gay hate groups. and the fact of the matter is that those organizations are akin to many of the white supremacist organizations that we list in the sense that they lie about gay folks. white supremacist folks lie about african-americans. in the case of something like the family research council, they put out all kinds of defamatory information about how gays are child molesters at higher rates and so on with the intention of destroying that particular population and making them appear to be lesser. so for us, it is a no brainer to put groups like that on o