U of North Texas Study: Counties that hosted a Trump rally saw a 226% increase in reported hate crimes

[Teh_Lurv]

Although this might be "no shit, Sherlock" to a lot of people on this forum, it's good that researchers are putting in the effort to quantify and document the negative effect Trump's rhetoric is having on the US.

Using the Anti-Defamation League's Hate, Extremism, Anti-Semitism, Terrorism map data (HEAT map), we examined whether there was a correlation between the counties that hosted one of Trump's 275 presidential campaign rallies in 2016 and increased incidents of hate crimes in subsequent months.
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We found that 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.

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Additionally, it is hard to discount a "Trump effect" when a considerable number of these reported hate crimes reference Trump. According to the ADL's 2016 data, these incidents included vandalism, intimidation and assault.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...pire-more-hate-crimes/?utm_term=.ab31a6d36850

 

[Inuhanyou]

Hateful rhetoric and attitudes by leadership figure, affect human behavior...? That's news to me.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

The filth brought out all the cockroaches.

 

[Grimm Fandango]

It's okay, I'm sure the victims were all illegal immigrants about to commit another crime.

 

[SoH]

Almost like this administration emboldens bigots and at best (at best) considers this a feature not a bug.

 

[Ryouji Gunblade]

I want this to become a textbook example of why you don't want to galvanize racists with large platforms or any platforms.

 

[oreomunsta]

Man, it's like if someone with only hate, racism, and misogyny to share is given a platform to spew that shit.... It emboldens others who share those shit characteristics to act out on them **thinking face**

 

[Damerman]

Remember the pre election rallies?

 

[rjinaz]

These tooootally aren't White Supremacists rallies. Nope.

 

[_ifigured]

I believe it. I work in a town that hosted a rally right around the corner from my office. POC who work here have talked about being followed around town. Most of us are at the master's or Ph.D level so its beyond stupid and creepy. Oh, and the township had to pay almost $20k in public funds for the rally and was never reimbursed. Fucking idiots.

 

[Torpedo Vegas]

 

[Slayven]

we tried to tell you.jpg

 

[sapien85]

I feel like this is a chicken and egg situation.

 

[WedgeX]

Just saw this in the other thread

It jives with the data on counties that voted Trump saw increases in school bullying.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ny...-is-up-in-regions-that-voted-for-trump.92800/

Trump has been a disastrous force in the US, and the rise in violence is both incredibly sad and disheartening.