Thursday, May 24, 2018

How Trump’s Nativist Tweets Overlap with anti-Muslim and anti-Latino Hate Crimes


The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently spoke with two researchers in the United Kingdom who have been studying the relationship between hate speech and hate crime. They concluded that hate crimes against Muslims and Latinos occurred shortly after President Trump made disparaging tweets about those groups. Words matter, and when political leaders use bigoted rhetoric, the consequences can be particularly harmful to the groups targeted.

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Source: SPLC

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