Yeah fake news (once considered Yellow Journalism) is what started the Spanish-American War and gave hero status to Teddy Roosevelt, yet it seems there’s always a new reason for the rise in hate crimes. Confederate Battle Flag, Police Shooting, Economics, etc… Why is so hard to state hate crimes are caused by ignorant stupid (&*^^*&% people – PB/TK
After Dylann Roof Shooting, Hate Crime Rates Are Soaring Because of Fake News – By Chris Riotta / June 17 2017
President Donald Trump announced he was running for office on June 16, 2015. The following day, white supremacist Dylann Roof opened fire in a historically black church located in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people in the hopes of launching an all-out race war.
Of course, those two events aren’t directly linked. “But it’s certainly symbolic,” Heidi Beirich, director of Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, tells Newsweek.
“There doesn’t seem to be a single marginalized population that was left out of the emboldened reaction to this election,” she said. “There has been a massive explosion of violence across the country, and an increase in the number of hate crimes against virtually all minority groups. The numbers are definitely going up in 2017.”
Two years after Roof sat in on a bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, before taking out his gun and shooting the local parishioners, reports of hate crimes against black, Muslim, LGBTI, Sikh, Jewish and Hispanic communities have only continued to surge. Meanwhile, groups like SPLC and the Human Rights Campaign say battling the rise in hate-based violence will largely take place online in the coming years, where racists and those prone to committing attacks against minorities feed off of radicalized content and fake news.
Continue to newsweek.com article: http://www.newsweek.com/dylan-roof-massacre-racist-fake-news-sites-causing-rise-hate-crimes-626922
