"A steady decline in hate crimes from 1990 till 2015. Then Trump comes down an escalator and begins campaign of hate"
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TH: Now hate has always been part of the American landscape. But interestingly 1990 or 91 was the year that the FBI began compiling statistics on hate crimes; it was a brand new thing this was during the George Herbert Walker Bush Administration. And looking at hate and hate crime seemed like a good
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idea and so the FBI began compiling those statistics and
with the exception of 1995 when for the first couple months after the Oklahoma
city bombing every everybody in America thought it was Muslim, terrorists, and
2001 when 911 happened with the exception of those two years there has been a
steady decline in hate crimes from 1990 till 2015 a steady decline a rather
dramatic one in fact in two little bumps in the middle.
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And then Donald Trump jumps on the scene in 2015 in the republican primary comes down an
escalator and begins his campaign with hate, hating on Mexicans calling them
murderers and rapists and all this kind of thing. The fact of the the the
simple reality is that communities that have the highest number of undocumented
immigrants in them are the safest communities in America whether they're border
towns along the southern border they have a lower crime rate than the
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Rest of America or whether they big cities where where
southern governors have shipped all kinds of migrants they now have the lowest
crime rates in America too. Why, well of course because migrants are not coming
to this country to commit crime. If they want to commit crime if they want to
rob people or rape people they can do that in Mexico they can do that in Guatemala.
They don't have to come here to do it, they come here looking for jobs and for
freedom freedom from fear
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Freedom from gangs freedom from violence. And they're
looking looking to work they're not so quote illegal immigrants are more than
30% less likely to commit crimes in America than native born Americans. It's
pretty amazing. But don't tell that to fox news don't tell that to to Donald
trump don't tell that to the right- wingers the politics of of hate are cheap
easy and effective which is why by and large
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Since world war ii most of our politicians have not engaged
in this. We had George Wallace back in the 60s and and Donald trump in 2015.
And what happened in 2015 when Donald trump came came along well just that year
the FBI reported that hate crimes in 2015 for the first time since 1990 with
again with the exception of 95 and 2001 but basically for the first time since
1990 hate crimes went up 6.8% over 2014 the following year when trump became
the
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The republican party's nominee 2016 hate crimes went up
another 5%. This is an explosion in hate violence. After trump declared he was
going to ban all Muslim immigration after he became president anti-Muslimism hate
crimes went up 67% and the fall winter of 2016 saw a 25.6% increase in
documented hate crimes over the fourth quarter of 2015
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A university of north Texas study found that counties that
hosted a trump rally in 2016 saw a 126% increase in reported hate crimes when
compared to counties in the same state that didn't have a trump rally. The
simple reality is that hatred is contagious. It's every bit as contagious as a
bacteria or a virus and when it infects a host and begins to grow to live and
grow inside
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That host it not only damages them psychologically and
emotionally, it even damages them physically, this guy called into my program
yesterday and was all bent out of shape about some illegal immigrant had raped
some girl someplace, some teenage girl
right. And fox news had just pounded on it for days as has right-wing hate
media, because hey any little excuse to promote hate, this
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This is what the this is what the rightwing is all about
these days. Let's find somebody to hate on let's hate on queer people let's
hate on Muslims let's hate on black people let's hate out of Hispanics. This it's
what they do. The Murdoch family has made billions pedaling hate in the united
states England and the former prime minister of Australia Kevin Rudd wrote an
op-ed for the Sydney Morning Herald, the kind of New York Times of Australia,
that was headlined Rupert Murdoch is the cancer in Australian
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Politics it's true. Trump's most recent hate filled
abomination he was in front of a Christian conservative audience. And he said,
let's throw immigrants into locked cages with professional cage fighters and
see who wins. He said, I think the migrant guy might win that's how tough they
are these are tough people these people are tough they're nasty they're mean
it's incredible they come here to America totally- right sell that fear sell
that hate there is truly no bottom.
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* Watch video of the program here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egge5wuSk6Y&t=2s
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