• nugmeister64@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        unbiased proof? I don’t see how people will just magically decide their aggression level based on the arbitrarily chosen political figurehead in power

        • Gnome Kat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          11 months ago

          Here is the hate crime incident count as reported from the FBI data explorer website. As you can see the count had been falling after 2001 up until 2016 where it then starts rising again.

          • 2000 8,219
          • 2001 9,730
          • 2002 7,485
          • 2003 7,545
          • 2004 7,684
          • 2005 7,411
          • 2006 7,715
          • 2007 7,624
          • 2008 8,039
          • 2009 6,612
          • 2010 6,628
          • 2011 6,299
          • 2012 6,593
          • 2013 6,044
          • 2014 5,597
          • 2015 5,843
          • 2016 6,270
          • 2017 7,329
          • 2018 7,180
          • 2019 7,875
          • 2020 9,952
          • 2021 10,891
          • 2022 11,643
          • freeindv@monyet.cc
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            11 months ago

            Damn, Biden shot it through the roof. Guy is very dangerous. Get him out of there

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      11 months ago

      Spoken like someone who has never been targeted based on the political climate, and hasn’t cared for anyone who has.