In 2021, hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level since the federal government began tracking the data more than 30 years ago, according to the FBI’s most recent Supplemental Hate Crimes Statistics report.
“In 2021, hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level since the federal government began tracking the data more than 30 years ago…”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
“64.5 percent of victims were targeted because of the offenders’ race/ethnicity/ancestry bias, 15.9 percent were targeted because of the offenders’ sexual-orientation bias, 14.1 percent were targeted because of the offenders’ religious bias, 3.2 percent were targeted because of the offenders’ gender identity bias, 1.4 percent were targeted because of the offenders’ disability bias, and 1.0 percent were targeted because of the offenders’ gender bias,” the report reads.
I assume that some of those percentage categories overlap.
Adds up to 100.1%, and I’m guessing the 0.1 is a rounding artifact. So it looks like they’re only going with one category per crime, regardless of how many boxes the defendant checked off in committing it.
I’m the first to admit that I’m not great at math, but I was looking at the numbers differently than you were.
To me, the 100% is the total number of hate crimes, not necessarily the total number of how they were classified.
For example - of the 64.5% who are victims targets due to their race, I assume that a substantial percentage of those also fall into another category as well. Sort of like a Venn diagram.
I too assume a lot of the individual crimes are multivalent, but they don’t seem to be counting any more than one particular hate per crime. Unless they’re counting the bashing of a gay Jew as two hate crimes?
This is certainly the least surprising headline of the day. Just last week someone in my daughter’s neighborhood came onto someone’s property to destroy a gay pride banner that was displayed by the front door. Not the end of the world, obviously, but subjectively we have been seeing more and more of this type of behavior. Really hateful T-shirt messages and stickers on people’s cars that would have been shocking 10 years ago.
I am proud to say that most of the surrounding homeowners, including my daughter, decided to display the banner by their door the following week.
When the so-called party of “law and order” and “personal responsibility” is headed by a person who spouts contempt for law and order and traffics in hate and divisive, incendiary rhetoric, this is to be expected. DJT and his enablers are THE WORST examples for our youth, most especially, but also for the entire nation. Authoritarians tap into hate to achieve their corrupt and criminal ends.
The FBI reporting a spike in hate crimes is the reason the House GOP wants to investigate the FBI, not the hate crimes.
And as for all these House GOP investigations, Josh Marshall’s latest post distills the essence:
“Take the Rosetta Stone of current GOP furor: Hunter Biden’s laptop. In theory, this is the key to the secrets of what Republicans now call “The Biden Crime Family.” But its contents have now been rummaged through for almost two and a half years. There’s not much more to say about it. And saying the same thing over again not surprisingly doesn’t get a huge amount of attention. But the real energy behind the Hunter Biden Laptopism isn’t about the thing itself. It’s about re-litigating the alleged unfairness of the fact that it didn’t turn the 2020 presidential campaign in Trump’s favor.”
What percentage of the offenders do you reckon watch Fox News for confirmation of their chosen bias?
