Trump's Election Led To A Surge In Hate Crime

[TomCADem]

Source: Forbes

In the ten days after Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, the country experienced a surge in hate crime. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a prominent U.S. civil rights group, released a report identifying 867 incidents of harassment and intimidation between November 09 and November 18. Many of those incidents involved harassers invoking Trump’s name, making it clear that the outbreak of hate was primarily due to his success in the election.

The highest number of hate incidents occurred on November 09, the day after the election, with 202 recorded. November 10 and 11 also experienced a high volume of hate crime with 166 and 138 incidents respectively. Broken down by motivation, anti-immigrant sentiment was involved in most of the incidents, followed by anti-black and anti-Semitic hate crimes. The SPLC called on Trump to take responsibility for his actions and repair the damage he caused, as well as for him to denounce racism and bigotry and reconsider key appointments.

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/11/30/report-trumps-election-led-to-a-surge-in-hate-crime-infographic/#77f5d0fd5f0d

[Feeling the Bern]

1. Don't worry. From what I've read here, it all depends on the group

Hate crimes against Muslims, Gays, Asian, Blacks, Native Americans, women - this is all wrong.

Hate crimes against Jews - acceptable. Especially if children do it.

[LanternWaste]

4. Creative (though self-serving) perspective you've created!

Creative (though self-serving) perspective you've created! Nice job. Especially if one advertises a desire to beat down two 14-year old girls.

[leftynyc]

5. Can you deny the

chart linked to the OP shows twice as many anti-semitic incidents as any other religion? Why isn't that being talked about more?

[Feeling the Bern]

6. Because in all of western civilization history, Jewish blood has been cheaper than garbage

[leftynyc]

9. Sure does seem that way

Even supposed liberals don't seem to want to confront the problem.

[Feeling the Bern]

7. 14 year old is old enough to be in Hitler Youth

but I guess you're okay with NAzi behavior.

Please stop stalking me.

[caraher]

2. I wish they made it clearer what the baseline rate had been

Also... the fact that the rate of incidents diminished within days is fascinating, and I'm not sure what it means.

[Feeling the Bern]

8. Wait until Jan. 21st. I figure Jan 20th night will be America's Krystallnacht

[LakeArenal]

3. Thanks Trump.