Newsweek:
In 2017, hate crimes in the U.S. increased 17 percent, rising for the third year in a row. Forty-nine percent of race-based incidents were “motivated by anti-Black or African American bias," while 17.5 targeted white individuals, according to the 2017 FBI Hate Crime report. More than 58 percent of religiously motivated attacks targeted Jewish individuals, the report stated.
The piece lists, as examples, 9 reported attacks on Red Hats in the 47 days since January 18 this year.
So let's just fuck around with it a little.
If those 9 incidents represent the 17.5% of attacks that went against MAGA dopes, let's make a radical assumption and say the other 82.5% were against people not stupid enough to continue supporting a guy who is so obviously ill-suited to be POTUS.
If 9 attacks = 17.5%, then 82.5% = 51 attacks.
9 attacks in 47 days = 0.2 attacks per day.
51 attacks in 47 days = 1.1 attacks per day.
I don't think anyone should be physically attacked because of their political views - that's not the fucking point here.
The fucking point here is that we're still getting a shitload of what sounds a lot like False Equivalence from the Press Poodles.
If those 9 incidents represent the 17.5% of attacks that went against MAGA dopes, let's make a radical assumption and say the other 82.5% were against people not stupid enough to continue supporting a guy who is so obviously ill-suited to be POTUS.
If 9 attacks = 17.5%, then 82.5% = 51 attacks.
9 attacks in 47 days = 0.2 attacks per day.
51 attacks in 47 days = 1.1 attacks per day.
I don't think anyone should be physically attacked because of their political views - that's not the fucking point here.
The fucking point here is that we're still getting a shitload of what sounds a lot like False Equivalence from the Press Poodles.
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