The hate divide: Hate crimes are up, up, up and Trump supporters want to deny, deny, deny

[spanone]

If a hate crime occurs in America and a Trump supporter doesn’t see it, did it even happen?

The evidence suggests that, denial by Trump and his fans notwithstanding, the answer is yes. In the first five days after last Tuesday’s election, the Southern Poverty Law Center received reports of 437 hate crimes across the country. Two hundred and fifty of those were reported in the first two days alone, which is more than the SPLC sees in an average six-month span.

In addition, the FBI announced Monday that it recorded 5,818 hate crimes in 2015, a six percent increase over the previous year. And this at a time when the overall crime rate in the country, despite what a majority of people might think, has actually decreased.

Given the angry tone and tenor of the election and the fact that the winning candidate did most of his campaigning by putting on rallies that even Leni Riefenstahl might have thought were a tad much, it seems a good bet that much of the inspiration for this wave of hate crimes can be laid at the feet of our new, orange obergruppenfuhrer, Donald Trump.

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/17/the-hate-divide-hate-crimes-are-up-up-up-and-trump-supporters-want-to-deny-deny-deny/

[heaven05]

1. their fuhrer told them

it's okay to hate. You can be open about it. It is "normal" again. No matter what concilliatory tone is taken by the New Nazi Party of AmeriKKKa, I will always know that even during the early tenure of the first fuhrer, he was concilliatory too. I expect much more open hatred, bloodshed andd human depravity committed in the name of the new trumpfuhrer.

[MotorCityMan]

2. Unfortunately, I expect it to continue and worsen also

n/t

[gollygee]

3. Nail. Head.

[herding cats]

4. Yep. Their hate has been legitimized and brought out into the mainstream.

Anyone with two functioning brain cells on the left saw this coming if Trump won.

[Mc Mike]

5. The swinish repuglinazis are really feeling their oats. But there are more of us than there are of

them.

And see how they're acting while the presidency is controlled by us?

That's exactly how we can and will act when their cowardly master is in the white house.

Every one of us will do everything we can, when we see their freaks try to pull something around us.

[dhol82]

6. I thought that was the orange obergropenfuhrer

No?