>>" As reports of racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic harassment and attacks poured in after the election of Donald Trump, many Americans wondered whether they represented a nationwide increase in hate crime. "
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>"Many Americans?"
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>Sounds like a couple of editors at the New York Times.
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>This is unadulterated anti-Trump hogwash.
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>As I've said here before, when I studied journalism the NY Times was the gold standard.
>If I had ever submitted a paper containing claptrap like this, I'd have been thrown out of the class.

Is it the language that bothered you, or is it the initiative? I think it's a fact that people have this perception, and I think that if it's a myth then it should be debunked.
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