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Rmrd: please so not read

artappraiser — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 20:56:38 +0000

In reply to It’s easy to ignore this part

Rmrd: please do not read ideological intent into my choice of excerpts when I post articles "In the News", as I do so expecting people to click through and read the whole article. As a matter of fact, most ot the time, I try to pick something that will tempt people to click through and read the rest.

NCD: thanks for adding more excerpt for the nuance. In general it would be great if more people jumped in and did this to add nuance, we can do that as a team but one person cannot post full articles without Wolraich getting in trouble.

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It’s easy to ignore this part

rmrd0000 — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 18:31:42 +0000

In reply to The other part of the article

It’s easy to ignore this part of the article if you are not a possible target.

The other part of the article

NCD — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 04:08:43 +0000

In reply to Are Hate Crimes in US Peaking? Amid Increased Polarization, Hate Crimes Drop

The other part of the article you skipped:

....Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said it was too early to predict whether the multiyear uptrend in hate crimes would be reversed in 2018.

“The bottom line is we’re quite happy that in some cities hate crimes are down, but they’re not down in all of them and you can’t really make a full-year prediction, particularly at a time when we’re so polarized with only the half year in,” Levin said.

Levin said there is a “cyclicality” to hate crimes, with the latter quarters of the year showing a larger number of incidents. He also noted that while overall hate crimes fell in major cities, those involving violence, including assault and aggravated assault, rose.

Hate crime laws might be making a difference, at least in the sense that some of the more minor types of hate crimes are decreasing in certain areas, while the more hard, violent ones are going up,” he said.

If you are part of one of the

rmrd0000 — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 02:49:50 +0000

In reply to Are Hate Crimes in US Peaking? Amid Increased Polarization, Hate Crimes Drop

If you are part of one of the target groups of hate crimes, you focus on the fact that hate crimes are underreported and that violent hate crimes are increasing. There was a recent white supremacist march in Portland. A white supremacist march is scheduled for D.C. on the anniversary of the deadly white supremacy march in Charlottesville, Virginia. There is nothing that comforts you. The reports that come out in 2019 that analyze hate crimes in 2018 will be important. We may get a suggestion of the major ethnic targets of violent hate crimes, but we have to remember that the data is incomplete. We need better measurements.