Re: Empire' star Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime
You're not really going to blame this on Trump are you?
If you are, note that hate crimes rose from last year when Trump was also president.
The reason there has been a spike is because agencies were under-reporting prior to 2018.
Hate Crimes Increase for the Third Consecutive Year, F.B.I. Reports - The New York Times
That NY Times article gives people the very strong and unmistakable impression that an explosion of violence, racial hatred and intolerance by white people, inspired of course by Donald Trump, is directly responsible for the spike in reported hate crimes. The article recalled 6 different incidents over the last couple of years that were motivated by racism, hatred, or intolerance, and not only was a white person the perpetrator in every single one of them, but the author made sure for each incident to specifically point that out to his readers.
Well, I decided to do a little reading at the FBI website and you're not going to believe this, but it appears the NY Times mislead their (gullible) readers into believing something that simply isn't supported by the actual crime statistics.
For instance, if the increase in hate crimes was due to racist, intolerant white people motivated by Trump, then you would expect the percentage of them committed by white people to have significantly increased over the norm, while the percentage committed by other races, like for instance black people, to have significantly gone down... but that hasn't happened.
Over the last 8 years, since 2010 (as far back as I could find) white people, who make up 72% of the US population, have been responsible for committing 52.8% of the hate crimes. Black people, who make up less than 13% of the US population, have been responsible for 22.8% of those crimes. Now according to the 2017 crime report cited by the Times, white people were responsible for 50.7% of those crimes , while black people committed 21.3% of them. Not only is that
not a significant increase in the percentage of white hate crime offenders, it's actually 2.1% lower. Hell, back in 2010 and 2011 white offenders were responsible for committing nearly 60% of hate crimes.
Since there has been no significant change in the racial makeup of hate crime offenders over the last decade, it's not only ridiculous for the Times or anyone else to blame the increase on Trump and his invisible white army of racist supporters (that to this day I've never as much as one), it's a flat out lie.... Something that over the last decade, the left and their always faithful allies in the MSM have increasingly relied upon to maintain their political relevance.
Here's a thought... Ya think the increase in hate crimes might have something to do with the social divide that's taken place over the last decade due to the identity politics and race-card strategy adopted by the left? I mean who really thought that 10 years of the left labeling everyone they disagree with politically as racists, bigots, homophobes, nazis, etc... wasn't going to result in the societal up evil we are now experiencing?
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