You sound like those white boys who argue until their blue in the face that there are no hate crimes against black people in 2019. People out here planning how they will kill all kinds of people just because they ain't like them. What I really wanna know is why is that reality so hard for you to accept. When did facts become "agenda"? That's some shyt an alt-right person would say about us when we talk about police brutality. That's it's all a lib or BLM agenda to promote the anti-white agenda. Y'all need to stop borrowing these nazi talking points.
Anti-gay hate crimes on the rise, FBI says, and they likely undercount
Anti-LGBT hate crimes are rising, the FBI says. But it gets worse
Grace Hauck, USA TODAYPublished 3:35 p.m. ET June 28, 2019 | Updated 7:59 a.m. ET July 1, 2019
Martin Boyce was at the Stonewall Inn in New York when riots broke out in June 1969, a moment seen as the birth of the LGBTQ rights movement. Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY
Friday marked 50 years since protesters fought back against a
police raid of New York's Stonewall Inn and catalyzed the modern gay rights movement. But despite decades of progress, members of the LGBTQ community across the country are experiencing targeted acts of violence.
Hate crimes against LGBTQ people have been on a slight rise over the past three years,
according to FBI data. While most hate crimes in the U.S. are motivated by bias toward race and religion, the number of crimes based on sexual orientation rose each year from 2014 to 2017, when 1,130 incidents were reported. Of those crimes, a
majority targeted gay men.
Crimes motivated by a bias toward gender identity – against transgender and non-binary individuals – have generally risen since 2013, when the FBI
first began recording them. At least 11 transgender people have been fatally shot or killed by other violent means in 2019,
according to the Human Rights Campaign. Recent media reports suggest that crimes against black transgender women, in particular, have spiked this year.
The FBI data, however, likely
dramatically underestimates the true number of hate crimes against the LGBTQ community, experts, say, given flaws in the current data collection process and massive discrepancies with the much larger number of self-reported incidents.
A
better gauge of hate crime trends in the U.S. may be the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), a household-based survey administered by the U.S. Census Bureau. This self-reported data suggests that Americans experience
closer to 200,000 hate crimes each year – a far cry from the FBI’s
estimate of approximately 7,500.
The NCVS data also suggests that
a greater percentage of all hate crimes are motivated by a bias against sexual orientation than the FBI data.
Many people who experience hate crimes
do not report the incidents to law enforcement, for
various reasons.
“To the extent that we
don’t have universal protections from discrimination on the basis of employment, housing, and public accommodations, if someone comes forward to report a hate crime, they could also be officially outing themselves as LGBTQ. In a smaller or rural community, that outing could result in an eviction or loss of a job,” said
Robin Maril, Human Rights Campaign Associate Legal Director.
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Results of this LGBTQ survey are 'alarming'
Some advocates point to the
Trump administration’s policies and rhetoric as potential catalysts for the increasing violence in recent years.
After Trumps' election, the Southern Poverty Law Center
counted 201 incidents of election-related harassment and intimidation across the country, including incidents targeting the LGBTQ community and people of color.
In 2017, the president
announced on Twitter that he would be banning transgender people from the military. At an
annual National Prayer Breakfast this past February, Trump defended a state-funded Michigan adoption agency’s
efforts to ban gay and lesbian couples from adopting children.
“The level of discourse that we are getting from the Trump administration and leadership only hurts our community, only hurts trans people,” Maril said. “It gives a sense of impunity and a license to harm folks.”
Under the Obama administration, the average number of anti-gay hate crime incidents reported to the FBI each year was higher than the number of incidents
reported in 2017. In 2008, the FBI
reported 1,297 anti-gay hate crime. That number fluctuated but eventually fell to
1,135 in 2012 and
1076 in 2016.
One comment of the homophobia scene was a bit over the top with the herpes face kid and people start dropping graphs. Never seen you post FBI graphs for..."others"
still got 4 out of 5 stars
more of that especially when each loser went on there own more pennywise trolling instead of jus flashbacks
