{"id":36215,"date":"2019-03-24T02:32:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T02:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36215"},"modified":"2019-03-24T02:32:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T02:32:32","slug":"study-shows-hate-crime-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36215","title":{"rendered":"Study shows hate crime spike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How are we supposed to interpret this study?<\/p>\n

Get a load of this: A University of North Texas analysis has disclosed that hate crimes increased 226 percent in those counties where Donald Trump staged political rallies during the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Huh? But . . . wait! Don’t the Trump allies say there’s no relationship between the president and the reported resurgence of white supremacist hate groups?<\/p>\n

Hmm. Well, I don’t know about that.<\/p>\n

The study was done by Ayal Feinberg, a political science doctoral student at UNT, along with Regina Branton and Valerie Martinez-Ebers, two UNT political science professors.<\/p>\n

They contend that the study reveals that the spike occurred in the months immediately after Trump held those rallies while he was campaigning for president of the United States.<\/p>\n

According to The Hill newspaper: “They said their research sought to explain how some of Trump’s rhetoric ‘may encourage hate crimes.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

How do you dismiss the findings, that such hate crimes spiked 226 percent in those counties were Trump fired ’em up with his red-hot rhetoric?<\/p>\n

It’s difficult to separate the findings from the president’s speech.<\/p>\n

The Hill’s story explains how the researchers collected their data. Read it\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I have resisted suggesting that Trump’s rhetoric was directly responsible for horrific acts, such as — for example — the Christchurch, New Zealand, massacre of 50 people at two mosques the other day. The white supremacist\/moron arrested, though, reportedly had been inspired by something Trump had said.<\/p>\n

And, yes, the president did equate neo-Nazis, Klansmen and white supremacists with counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 by referring to “very fine people on both sides”<\/em> participating in that deadly riot.<\/p>\n

This is the individual who serves as president of the Land of Opportunity.<\/p>\n

Oh . . . my.<\/p>\n\n

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How are we supposed to interpret this study? Get a load of this: A University of North Texas analysis has disclosed that hate crimes increased 226 percent in those counties where Donald Trump staged political rallies during the 2016 presidential campaign. Huh? But . . . wait! Don’t the Trump allies say there’s no relationship … Continue reading Study shows hate crime spike<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7240,1424,2076,2692,7244,8471,8506,6686,5255],"class_list":["post-36215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charlottesville-riot","tag-donald-trump","tag-hate-crimes","tag-kkk","tag-neo-nazis","tag-new-zealand-massacre","tag-university-of-north-texas","tag-white-nationalists","tag-white-supremacists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36217,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215\/revisions\/36217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}