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Many of the recent shootings ... are linked to white supremacist hatred.

Only speciously, and mostly by the propaganda mill known as the (m)ass media.

And hate crimes have been on the rise nationwide for three consecutive years

Coinciding almost directly with the rise of the anti-Trump movement ...

This growing hatred seeps into our classrooms.

Honey, your anti-conservative hatred has been in your classroom for decades. It "seeped" in under the guise of "tolerance" and "multiculturalism" and "political correctness."

What can I do to help my students feel safe and ensure that the next generation no longer operates from a place of hatred and fear?

Try doing your job -- teaching -- instead of trite moralizing.

we can do anti-racist work.

Start by refusing to teach the lie of "white privilege." And explain to your students that "social justice" is actually socialIST, and anything but justice. And that most of the problems in ethnic minority communities are brought on by the members of those communities themselves.

It’s easy to decry the shooters as “crazy.”

... because they are. And it's just as easy to call everything you don't like "racist."

While this is critical work, research suggests that the majority of mass shootings are not attributable to mental illness. In fact, roughly 65 percent of the more than 350 mass killers counted by Columbia University forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone showed no evidence of a severe mental disorder.

Anybody who would shoot innocents has, by very definition, a "severe mental disorder." That shrink is nuts himself.

That brought to mind Catch 22...

"You mean there's a catch?"
"Sure there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

White privilege exists.
Not in the form all the silly people are on about, but as a sort of legacy of our ancestors.

The fact is that white Europeans effectively conquered the world, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, between all the European empires. Only a few places escaped the conquest, and even they were in one way or another dominated or culturally influenced profoundly by the rampaging conquerors all around them.

These empires were won by the sword.

Americans are Americans because their ancestors, part of that European explosion, took this continent through conquest. These people created a society that suited them. That they did not have to conform to the local society, becoming white Iroquois say, but to impose their own. That is the non-material spoils of conquest.

To conquer, be more powerful. As for the conquered, as always, vae victis.

The whining comes from people trying to conquer on the cheap, begging against the better nature of their conquerors, and particularly exploiting the cold civil war between white factions. Its both pathetic and dangerous.