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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:54 PM Dec 2016

Hate Crimes Are on the Rise in New York City

Source: New York Times

DEC. 5, 2016

On Monday morning, a man shoved a New York City Transit worker down a staircase at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, screaming that she was a terrorist. Two days earlier, in Brooklyn, another man threatened an off-duty police officer with his pit bull, telling her and her son to “go back to your country.” Both women were wearing hijabs.

Hate crimes in New York City have risen in the weeks since Donald J. Trump won the presidential election, a noticeable spike that encompasses ethnic minorities, Jews, whites and people for their sexual orientation. In New York City, 43 episodes have been deemed possible hate crimes by the Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force since Election Day, more than double the number reported for the same period last year.

To date, there has been a 35 percent increase over last year. The incidents range from vicious graffiti to physical violence.

Much of the hatred has shown in graffiti. Several swastikas were discovered Saturday on a No. 1 train. The scrawls followed the appearance of two swastikas, graffitied with the words “Go Trump,” in a Brooklyn Heights playground last month, prompting a communitywide demonstration.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/nyregion/hate-crimes-are-on-the-rise-in-new-york-city.html

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Initech

(99,909 posts)
1. Even the Germans are alarmed at our white supremacy.
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 12:09 AM
Dec 2016

When that happens, you know you fucked up somewhere.

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
2. When can we just literally beat the shit out of these people until they are so broken
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 12:35 AM
Dec 2016

they go back under their rock! Seriously, the only way to deal with a bigot, a racist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, or a sexist is to pound cake them into the ground.

Now I know a lot of you will flame me for saying that, because love conquers hate. . .but it's perfectly fine to hate these bigoted assholes. They deserve no sympathy and the second they pull this hate crime shit, they deserve no mercy!

I am tired of this. . .one thing I've noticed on 90% of these hate attacks is they do it at night and they either target women when alone or men when they are in groups. Which means they are fucking cowards.

So it's time for some real solutions to this hate crime shit. Sadly, I would assume the racists that have taken over police agencies and have no problems murdering unarmed black people would arrest us first and let the poor, innocent, oppressive white Christian bigot off the hook.

Yes, I am sick of this shit. My wife will be targeted because she is Chinese. My family will be targeted because they are Jewish. Three of my friends and a former student will be targeted because they are gay (including one of my fraternity brothers in Dallas). A lot of my friends will be targeted because they are black. One of my fraternity brothers is black, has had three open heart surgeries and almost physically incapable of defending. He is one of the sweetest men you will meet. Love you, "Cleveland." And I can't imagine what Muslims are going through, though I personally know no Muslims, except for the friends I made in my year in Malaysia.

 

Taitertots

(7,745 posts)
5. Your violence is worse than their hate
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 10:51 AM
Dec 2016

Wanting to use violence over speech/thoughts makes you worse than Trumpsters.

Now that you've launched an unprovoked threat of violence against them. Are they justified using violence against you to defend themselves?

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
7. Yadda, yadda, yadda. My people have been victimized or 3,000 years. My mother's people
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 08:02 PM
Dec 2016

were almost wiped out (Mohawk).

When can we stand up for ourselves and defend ourselves, or are we always supposed to roll over on our backs like a dog and take it?

As for you making me worse than a Trumpster. . .You know nothing about me.

Are they justified. . .I was beaten up for being the only Jew in a Christian town many times growing up. It isn't until I started taking the fight to the bigots I lived around that it stopped. Even my vice principal want to "take my Jew ass outside and show me up."

Now do what most people do. . .tell me I am making up my past and since no one can prove that what I say is right, I must be making it up. Come on. . .I've heard that line for years too!

 

Taitertots

(7,745 posts)
8. A long rambling obfuscation for your original call to violence
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 09:19 PM
Dec 2016

Nothing in your past justifies using violence over speech / thoughts. Nothing in human history justifies using violence over speech / thoughts.

Do you think people will read this and think "Feeling the Bern was beat up some time ago, that means FTB gets to use violence against people for having bad thoughts and saying bad things."

JudyM

(29,122 posts)
4. I hope tRump is aware of what he's wrought. "Make America great again." Ridiculous. Compare
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 10:48 AM
Dec 2016

to the end of the world that was predicted by the far right when gay marriage was legalized.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
6. Leave it to the
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 12:17 PM
Dec 2016

WORTHLESS NY Times to not include this bit of information:

There has been a 115 percent increase in bias crimes in New York City following Election Day, with Jews being targeted in 24 of the 43 incidents during that nearly monthlong period. The anti-Semitic incidents represented a threefold increase from November 2015, The New York Observer reported.

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/356194/nypd-sees-huge-spike-in-hate-crimes-post-election-%E2%80%94-jews-targeted-most/


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