Was the Las Vegas shooting a hate crime against white people?

Yes. It was a planned attack on country music fans (a much hated minority) by a member of the well-known hate group “Old White ex-Florida Residents With Money and Private Planes Who Now Live in Rural Nevada”. read more

According to an analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center using FBI hate crime data and population estimates, LGBT Americans are targeted in hate crimes at 8.3 times the rate you’d expect based on the size of their population; that’s higher than the rate for both Jews (at 3.5) and black people (at 3.2). read more

A hate crime is any crime committed which is motivated by bias or based on the victim’s perceived membership in a specific group, such as race, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religious belief. read more