Forty percent of post-election hate crimes explicitly invoked Trump’s name or slogans
Evidence
In a study by the Southern Poverty Law Center, out of the nine hundred hate crime incidents in the first ten days following Donald Trump’s election, it was found that people explicitly invoked Donald Trump’s name or his campaign slogans in at least four-in-ten (40 percent) of these crimes. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 227
Categorization
- XREF: A concrete data point linking political rhetoric to mobilized violence — feeds the causal chain between elite Islamophobic discourse and street-level attacks. — connects to: Trumpism predates Trump and will outlast his presidency — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 509; Islamophobia predates Trump by centuries as a state-backed system — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 79
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 227
Related
- Trump’s election triggered a 300-percent spike in anti-Muslim hate group membership (similarity 0.84)
- Trumpism predates Trump and will outlast his presidency (similarity 0.83)
- Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric increased American hostility toward Muslims. (similarity 0.80)
- Trump’s presidency legitimated overt anti-Muslim racism and drove a spike in hate crimes. (similarity 0.80)
- Trump legitimated overt anti-Muslim racism that post-civil-rights Republicans only dog-whistled (similarity 0.79)
- Explicit Islamophobia has become an effective electoral strategy (similarity 0.78)