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FBI: US Hate Crimes Increased Nearly 12% in 2021

MAR 14 2023·Updated MAR 31 2023

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FBI: US Hate Crimes Increased Nearly 12% in 2021

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The Facts

According to an FBI report released Monday, hate crimes in the US rose by nearly 12% in 2021 with 9,065 reported incidents, compared to 8,120 the year before.
NPR
The agency noted that approximately 12,411 individuals were reported to have been hate crime victims in 2021, with the majority believed to have been targeted due to their race or ethnicity.
NPR
The FBI said 64.5% of reported events were due to race or ethnicity, about 16% due to sexual orientation, and 14.1% due to religion. The agency noted that intimidation and assault were the largest portion of crimes, with 18 murders also reported.
FOX News
The hate crime categories were reportedly anti-black, anti-white, anti-gay male, anti-Jewish, and anti-Asian. The agency revealed that 43.2% of crimes against persons were intimidation, 35.5% were simple assault and 20.1% were aggravated assault.
Al Jazeera
According to the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, the year-on-year increase in hate crimes between 2020 and 2021 was the largest in over three decades.
VOA

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The Spin

Democratic narrative

As far back as 2015, Donald Trump has been connected to documented acts of white supremacy violence and individuals even claiming he was their inspiration. While he refuses to recognize the problem, Trump has helped cultivate a tense national climate fuelled by hate. Trump's shameless exploitation of racial tensions within the US for his own political gains has inflicted true societal damage.

Vox

Republican narrative

The hysteria around the rise of white supremacy in the US is no longer reserved for those who genuinely believe in such a reality, nor only the favorite insult of left-wing politicians. The term is now applied so broadly that it has infiltrated the decision-making of the Biden administration. The woke left continues to attempt to push a narrative that does not exist, condemning the majority of the American population when in reality cases of hate crimes by white supremacists are incredibly rare.

The Federalist

Establishment-critical narrative

The US will only end hate attacks at home when it decides to end hate attacks internationally. The US' repeated attempts to scapegoat nations such as China are indicative of the storm of xenophobia that only continues to make Americans think such behavior is acceptable. Such rhetoric has made the lives of populations such as Asian Americans and Muslim Americans unacceptably dangerous.