Nope, it's because more hate crimes were committed. "The suspect in that [shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 and wounded six] has been charged w

Nope, it's because more hate crimes were committed. "The suspect in that [shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 and wounded six] has been charged with dozens of federal hate crimes, and that one incident alone accounted for nearly as many hate crime killings as were recorded all of last year in the United States: 15." >more people now consider certain opinions to be hate crimes Is there any reason to believe that? Your cherry-picked example was specifically refuted: "Anti-Islamic hate crimes declined 11 percent last year" SPLC did what you claim, but later removed the entire list of anti-Muslim extremists and issued an apology to Nawaz. [1] [1] https://www.splcenter.org/splc-statement https://www.splcenter.org/splc-statement