Tue Aug 31, 2021, 06:34 AM

Trump's Legacy: Hate Crimes Surged To A 12 Year High In 2020

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Posted on Mon, Aug 30th, 2021 by Jason Easley
Trump’s Legacy: Hate Crimes Surged To A 12 Year High In 2020

One of the many bad legacies of the Donald Trump presidency was hate crimes reaching a 12 year high during his final year in office.

CNN reported:

The report, released on Monday, found more than 7,700 criminal hate crime incidents were reported to the FBI in 2020, an increase of about 450 incidents over 2019. The increase comes even as fewer agencies reported hate crime incidents in their jurisdictions to the FBI than in previous years.

Last year had the highest tally of reported hate crime incidents since 2008, when 7,783 incidents were reported to the FBI.

The data released on Monday showed that bias against African Americans overwhelmingly comprised the largest category of reported hate crime offenses pertaining to race, with a total of 56% of those crimes motivated by anti-Black or African American bias. Asians have been targeted during the Covid-19 pandemic amid online and political rhetoric stigmatizing them, though this category of hate crime is often underreported.

Trump’s legacy is not just vast amounts of crime and corruption or killing hundreds of thousands of Americans with pandemic management negligence. Trump also remade parts of America into his own bigoted and hateful image.

No president has been viscerally associated with hate more than Donald Trump. The former president didn’t invent hate. There has been bigotry and racism in the country long before it was the United States.
Trump took the hate out of the nation’s darkest corners, gave it a stamp of approval, and made it mainstream.

Hatred is who Trump is, and his mentality was reflected in the federal hate crime statistics.

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Trump's Legacy: Hate Crimes Surged To A 12 Year High In 2020 (Original post)	babylonsister	Aug 2021	OP
Some credit must go to Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.	no_hypocrisy	Aug 2021	#1
Trump appealed to the dark side of human nature.	Irish_Dem	Aug 2021	#2
I honestly thought the increase would be greater.	BobTheSubgenius	Aug 2021	#3
It's part of a grand strategy to sow discontent, fear, despair, anger, hatred	bucolic_frolic	Aug 2021	#4
Almost? n/t	Harker	Aug 2021	#7
POS is hands down the most toxic presence in U.S. history.	dalton99a	Aug 2021	#5
And he implored cops, "don't be too nice" when putting arrestees	Harker	Aug 2021	#6
So 12 years before that	ArizonaLib	Aug 2021	#8
Almost like Republicans (Bush, Trump) give haters permission to be publicly evil	NullTuples	Aug 2021	#9
The Slobfather's shame	Blue Owl	Aug 2021	#10

Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Aug 31, 2021, 06:51 AM

no_hypocrisy (41,813 posts)

1. Some credit must go to Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.

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Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Aug 31, 2021, 07:39 AM

Irish_Dem (33,774 posts)

2. Trump appealed to the dark side of human nature.

Hate, greed, corruption, criminal activities.

What a terrible human being he is.

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Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Aug 31, 2021, 11:41 AM

BobTheSubgenius (11,343 posts)

3. I honestly thought the increase would be greater.

That's not an endorsement, by ANY means, but I am a little surprised.

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Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Aug 31, 2021, 11:52 AM

bucolic_frolic (35,332 posts)

4. It's part of a grand strategy to sow discontent, fear, despair, anger, hatred

so the richest fascists can dismantle society and enslave the populace for their own financial gain.

Almost sounds Nazi-esque and Soviet Union-esque, or any other society ruled for the top echelon elites proclaiming to be for the people.

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Tue Aug 31, 2021, 12:27 PM

Harker (11,692 posts)