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It'll be interesting to see whether you see many hate crimes with this - and whether they'll be different than the baseline before Trump was elected. My gut te
by binalpatel 10y ago
It'll be interesting to see whether you see many hate crimes with this - and whether they'll be different than the baseline before Trump was elected.
My gut tells me that there won't be a drastic upswing (in the belief of the basic decency of bulk of the American people), but let's see if that actually holds.
Edit: On a closer look - the data will be self reported, and the premise behind it is "there are serious consequences, and this is how we'll report them", which isn't necessarily the most fair way to go about things.
- rubyfan 10y agoThe fact that there is no baseline presented and it's some sort of reaction to a perceived increase in hate crimes post Trump is telling about the author. This is either naivety or ill intentioned. Frankly the reaction from CNN commentators, protesters and the armchair outrage on Facebook is a little over done. Because a small amount more people voted for Trump than Clinton doesn't mean we've suspended our constitution, individual rights or protections for protected classes. And for the record I am not a Trump vote, just an independent thinker.
- binalpatel 10y agoCompletely agree - I can't vote (yet!), but I was Democrat leaning. Trump winning was good for me - in that it opened my eyes to another half of America I had quite frankly been ignorant of, as a tech worker that's been doing quite well for the past few years.