How Americans Hate Each Other

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32 7 12 years ago

waps• 12 years ago

One thing's for certain : clearly IVR designers hate the rest of America.

On a serious note, at least in Western Europe religious hate crimes go ever more unreported because the larger portion is muslim-on-jews violence in the larger cities. Any investigation of these, often serious, incidents results in violence on the police, and complaints about racism against muslims.

So they just let everything go and every now and then they set themselves up at the border between muslim and jewish territory in Antwerp and Brussels, like the railway bridge in Antwerp. They the police gets assaulted by muslims, usually right after prayer, and arrest a few dozen of them, throw them in jail for a day or so, and life goes on. Then there's complain about not being able to find a decent job because of a scary arrest record (not that there are many people who make it through higher education in the inner city, outside of the Jewish population. But it is kind of true that an orthodox Jew is unlikely to find employment outside of Jewish businesses. There's plenty of those though. One reason for this is that if the company employs muslims, such a hire is sure to result in violence).

The police is slowly losing control of the situation, jews fortify their houses and well, that's it. They of course find an administrative solution : classify the hate crimes as "misfiled" if there is the slightest error by anyone. If necessary inserting such errors.

boards2x• 12 years ago

And you're an expert on this topic because... It was on Fox News?

bolaft• 12 years ago

"On a serious note", this post is nonsense.

mindslight• 12 years ago

Aww. Based on the title and domain, I was really hoping for an analysis of the political industry.

ds9• 12 years ago

The numbers here are actually not alarming, even positive.

In every human population there is a small percentage of people with some ideology that makes them inclined to do harm to others. 3700 anti-black incidents, 1100 anti-semitic, in the US - the population is about 300+ million. The hater-attacker percentage is something like 1 to 3 x 10^-5. That is tiny!

Of course it is deplorable that we have this much, and undoubtedly it implies a larger percentage who are hateful but not crazy enough to attack people. Still it does not seem a crisis. The situation has improved greatly in the US, I think other places have worse problems of this kind (e.g. see waps on this page).

hackhackin• 12 years ago

Agree - not super alarming numbers, when gauged as a percentage of population. Still, depressing to think that no matter how much we progress, bigoted subcultures will always be there to make life hell for minorities.

goodcanadian• 12 years ago

What this article lacks is any per capita context. For example, it says 54.6% of hate crimes are perpetrated by white people. According to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...

however, 72.4% of the population is white, so white people are, on average, less likely to commit hate crimes. Likewise, only 22.4% of racial hate crimes are targeted against white, so white people are far less likely than average to be the target of a racially motivated hate crime.

There is a lot of missing context required to understand this data.

How Americans Hate Each Other

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