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Hate Crime
The prevalence of hate crime is growing at increasing rates, especially those crimes with a racial bias, and especially coincide with violent or reactionary rhetoric.
- PolitiFact: Xu 19
- The aftermath of the 2016 election (2016-17) saw an increase in religious and ethnicity-based hate crime
- The spike also corresponded with the election month of November
- Washington Post: Feinberg et al. 19 (non-paywall) (also cited here)
- Counties that had hosted a 2016 Trump campaign rally saw a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally.
- “A considerable number of these reported hate crimes reference Trump,” which suggests a connection between rhetoric and the incitation of violence
- Here’s a further breakdown of hate crimes:
- ADL 18
- White supremacist groups continued to escalate their propaganda campaign targeting U.S. college campuses, with incidents increasing by 77% during the 2017-2018 academic year
- “White supremacists’ propaganda campaign continues to accelerate, both on and off campus, online and on the ground”