There's political power in being designated a victim group. All sorts of government benefits, judges and media more likely to be lax with your misdeeds, colleges more likely to accept you, arts grants more likely to favor you. Etc.
As a result, ethnic and "gender" advocacy groups jostle for position.
Hate crime stats are never accurate.
* Some groups (gays, Jews) are politically sophisticated and well organized when it comes to reporting even minor incidents.
* Some groups (Asians, Latino immigrants) are less likely to report, in the latter case because they fear the police.
* Some groups (whites, Christians, straights, men) don't even bother, because it's not a hate crime if it happens to them.
Furthermore, hate crime stats often simply state the number of incidents, not the quality. A Latino gangsta murdering a black, a black beating up a gay, or a swastika painted on a sidewalk, all count as one incident.
But the real fun is when the victim groups fight each other.
* Are women transphobic for not wanting trannies in the ladies' room? Or are trannies sexist for invading a female space?
* Are Arabs anti-Semitic for denouncing Israel? Or are Jews Islamophobic for dismissing Muslim complaints?
* Are Asians racist for opposing college racial quotas? Or are blacks and Latinos anti-Asian for insisting on quotas?
When I was a kid in the 1970s, my father assured me that by the time I was old, we'd be past race. That affirmative action and ethnic grievance groups were just a temporary phase caused by past racism and anti-Semitism. That later generations, growing up in a post-discrimination America, would see all Americans as fellow equals.
Instead, it's gotten worse. The benefits of being a victim have increased. And new victim groups have mushroomed. Trannys? Really?
It's the new Class Warfare. Only instead of Rich vs. Poor, it's now Everyone vs. Straight, White, Christian Males.
Agreed. The entire CRT construct is just classic Marxism with race replacing capital. The goals are the same. This is the battle they’ve decided to go all in on, as the final push.