This is why I left my old job in data journalism. When people explain their experiences of abuse and discrimination, you don& #39;t reply with a bar chart (especially when that bar chart is such a crap one). https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1305234617952337929">https://twitter.com/paulkrugm...
So so so many things wrong with this but one of the most obvious ones is that Muslims made up about 1% of the US population, Black people made up 12%. You don& #39;t just throw those bars down side by side (this is truly some math 101 shit).
And if what you& #39;re trying to show is *change* then er, why not show change? Even a glance at this shows that anti-muslim crimes went from less than 50 to more than 500. That& #39;s a fucking huge increase.
Why play a game of "who& #39;s more discriminated against" here?? Do you know that there are Black Queer Muslims? Seriously, this whole thing is just a mess.
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