• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    Here’s the report, and an interesting excerpt:

    A total of 1,590 incidents related to religion were reported; the largest categories of religion included:

    • Anti-Jewish incidents: 51.4% of religion-related incidents
    • Anti-Sikh incidents: 11.6%
    • Anti-Islamic incidents: 9.6%
    • Anti-Catholic incidents: 6.1%
    • Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other): 3.1%

    Here is 2020 data, and a relevant excerpt:

    Incidents related to religion decreased 18% from 2019, with 1,244 total incidents reported. The largest category included:

    • 683 anti-Jewish incidents, down 28% since 2019;
    • 110 anti-Muslim incidents, down 38%;
    • 15 anti-Buddhist incidents, up 200%; and
    • 89 anti-Sikh incidents, up 82%.

    And 2019 data:

    Incidents related to religion increased 7% from 2018, with 1,521 total incidents reported. The largest single category was anti-Semitic incidents. There were 953 anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, up 14% since 2018. Anti-Muslim incidents were the second-largest category, with 176 incidents reported. Reports of anti-Muslim incidents have decreased over the past two years, however, from 273 in 2017. Anti-Sikh incidents increased significantly over the same period, up 145% from 20 in 2017 to 49 in 2019.

    So I don’t see a rising trend at least over those three years for anti-semitic hate crimes, if anything it’s an average decrease from 2019 (953 vs 817). It just seems 2020 was an especially low year for religion-based hate crime.

    I do think it’s concerning and we should absolutely do something about it, I just wanted to cut through some of the alarmism and note that this isn’t likely some new wave of Nazism, it’s just a typical year. That absolutely sucks for those impacted, but I don’t see a trend or anything.

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      1 year ago

      Colleges, 2020

      I assume this data is affected by the fact that it is harder to commit a hate crime against another over zoom, too.

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        Perhaps. It’s important to note that the data here isn’t specific to college crimes though, but crimes across the whole country. COVID likely had a big impact, but murders were up in 2020, so presumably that would impact hate crimes too.

        But I’m not a statistician, so I’m not sure how to interpret the data. I just personally don’t see a trend here, just an unfortunate status quo.