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US Election 2016/ Are hate crimes spiking after Trump’s victory?

In the aftermath of Tuesday's election there have been a number of credible reports of hate crimes:

In Philadelphia, a number of swastikas were painted onto buildings along with pro-Trump graffiti. In one case "Trump Rules" and a racial slur were painted onto a car

In the small village of Wellsville in New York State, a swastika was painted onto a building on a softball field along with the words "MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN"

In San Diego, a university student was robbed by two men who police say "made comments about President-elect Trump and Muslims" before grabbing her purse and stealing her car. Police say they are investigating the case as a hate crime

Violence and threats against Trump supporters have also been reported.
In California a girl who expressed support for Trump on Instagram was attacked at school the next day. Her parents say the attack was politically motivated.

In Chicago, a white man involved in a traffic accident was beaten and robbed by a group of black people. In a video of the incident circulating widely on Facebook, bystanders are heard shouting "Don't vote Trump!"

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism.

It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety.

There are, inevitably, miseries to come: an increasingly reactionary Supreme Court; an emboldened right-wing Congress; a President whose disdain for women and minorities, civil liberties and scientific fact, to say nothing of simple decency, has been repeatedly demonstrated.

will strike fear into the hearts of the vulnerable, the weak, and, above all, the many varieties of Other whom he has so deeply insulted. The African- American Other. The Hispanic Other. The female Other. The Jewish and Muslim Other.

That he has prevailed, that he has won this election, is a crushing blow to the spirit;

Trump began his campaign declaring Mexican immigrants to be “rapists”; he closed it with an anti-Semitic ad evoking “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”; his own behavior made a mockery of the dignity of women and women’s bodies. And, when criticized for any of it, he batted it all away as “political correctness.”

But despair is no answer. To combat authoritarianism, to call out lies, to struggle honorably and fiercely in the name of American ideals—that is what is left to do. That is all there is to do.

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“We stand together. We stick up for the vulnerable. We challenge bigots. We don’t let hate speech become normalised. We hold the line.” – J.K. Rowling

If my kids were little, I'd tell them: Life isn't fair. Sometimes bullies win. It means you have to dust yourself off & fight harder. – Jodi Picoult

HATE ON THE RISE AFTER TRUMP’S ELECTION

Since Donald Trump won the Presidential election, there has been a dramatic uptick in incidents of racist and xenophobic harassment across the country. The Southern Poverty Law Center has reported that there were four hundred and thirty-seven incidents of intimidation between the election, on November 8th, and November 14th, targeting blacks and other people of color, Muslims, immigrants, the L.G.B.T. community, and women.

Such harassment occurred throughout Trump’s campaign, but now appears to have taken on a new boldness, empowered by the election of a Ku Klux Klan-endorsed candidate who has denigrated women and racial and religious minorities. “This represents a big increase in what we’ve seen since the campaign, and these incidents are far and wide: we’re seeing them in schools, we’re seeing them in places of business, we’re seeing them in museums and gas stations,” Richard Cohen, the president of the S.P.L.C., said. “White supremacists are celebrating, and it’s their time, the way they see it.” Cohen said that an online survey of teachers found that more than half had seen an increase in hostile speech during the campaign.

“We’ve seen a great deal of really troubling stuff in the last week, a spike in harassment, a spike in vandalism, physical assaults. Something is happening that was not happening before,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti- Defamation League, said.

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“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

“I just start kissing them. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.” He added: “Grab them by the p-ssy. You can do anything.”

To Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during a presidential debate  “Such a nasty woman.”

After Trump’s victory, the world is left to wonder: What happened to America?

Through it all on Wednesday was a palpable sense that Trump’s stunning victory could fundamentally transform the global order — though in this endlessly unpredictable year, no one dared forecast exactly how.

“We have no idea what this American president is going to do, when this voice of anger will be the most powerful man in the world,” Norbert Röttgen, chairman of the German Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, told public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. “Whether he knows his allies and friends, how he is going to approach Vladimir Putin, an authoritarian ruler, how he is going to act when it comes to the question of nuclear armament, all these questions are completely open.”

“The North American electorate broke open the shell of the serpent’s egg that Donald Trump incubated during the campaign this Tuesday,” wrote Clóvis Rossi, a columnist for Brazil’s Folha de S.Paulo newspaper. “Therefore all of the demons that the politically correct had buried or at least eased in United States society are loose.”

On Wednesday, the terms “shock” and “nightmare” were trending on Twitter in Germany.

In South Africa, as well, many were angered by the election of a man who had called their nation “a crime-ridden mess that is just waiting to explode.”

A Trump victory “is a victory for right-wing‚ racist politics. It doesn’t bode well for the world,” Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille told the country’s Business Day newspaper.

“The U.S. is known as a country for immigrants, as the land of the free, but he wants to build a wall,” said Carlos Llamas, a 19-year-old college junior studying consular and diplomatic affairs.

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Gerard Araud, the French ambassador to Washington and a social media institution, tweeted his dismay at a collapsing world order, then appeared to delete his tweet.

"Après Brexit et cette élection, tout est désormais possible. Un monde s'effondre devant nos yeux. Un vertige," he wrote, which translates as "After Brexit and this election, anything is now possible. A world is collapsing before our eyes. Dizziness" in English.

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"calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".

dismissed climate change science as a "hoax"

Trump once said that he wanted to deport all of the approximately 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the US, the BBC estimates a cost of $114bn.