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Studies have shown that influencers and communities can de-legitimize violence.
Intimidation and harassment have spiked
throughout the country following the recent election. Women, people of
color, immigrants, Muslims, Jews and LGBTQ folks, including many of our
own students, report palpable fear.
On Nov. 13, a man threatened to set fire to a University of Michigan student if she did not remove her hijab.
On Nov. 16, a man in Sarasota, Florida reported
being physically attacked by a person who said, “You know my new
president says we can kill all you f-ggots now.” On Nov. 17, a Puerto
Rican family’s car was vandalized
in West Springfield, Mass., with the words “Trump” and “Go home”
scratched into the car, and there have been multiple reports of
immigrants being told to “go back where you came from.” The Southern
Poverty Law Center collected more than 400 reports of “hateful intimidation and harassment in less than a week following election day.
How do we stop this violence? Looking in
from the outside and reporting events after they occur is not enough. We
must understand the perpetrators’ motivations.
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Source: TIME Magazine
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