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Via @antihateca: a pipeline recruiting youth into hate discourse, hate groups, and political violence.
It& #39;s worth a reminder that Canada has a growing hate problem. https://www.antihate.ca/transnational_network_young_white_nationalists_selling_fascism_kids_canada?utm_campaign=newsletter_march_30&utm_medium=email&utm_source=antihate">https://www.antihate.ca/transnati...
It& #39;s worth a reminder that Canada has a growing hate problem. https://www.antihate.ca/transnational_network_young_white_nationalists_selling_fascism_kids_canada?utm_campaign=newsletter_march_30&utm_medium=email&utm_source=antihate">https://www.antihate.ca/transnati...
Ohhh jeeezzeeee. Police data on hate crimes only account for 1-5 % of actual potential hate instances. This is why Canada& #39;s growing hate problem kind of disappears from the public imagination. It& #39;s largely institutionally invisible. https://www.antihate.ca/hate_crime_data_problem?utm_campaign=newsletter_march_30&utm_medium=email&utm_source=antihate">https://www.antihate.ca/hate_crim...
I wrote this in 2019 after the hate crime data from Stats Canada was released to the public. Turns out it& #39;s incredibly complicated to compile this data. https://xtramagazine.com/power/why-hate-crimes-against-trans-and-non-binary-canadians-go-underreported-162760">https://xtramagazine.com/power/why...
Aside from under reporting to police, every police department collects and aggregates data differently. So when they send along their data to Stats Can, they are all collected together as a collage of very diverse data collection methods. Like, every archive sent is different.
This means that Stats Can is putting together a wider database of data that doesn& #39;t always fit together. And beyond that, not every department actually collects that data or records them reliably.
In other words, it& #39;s all a hot mess. It& #39;s usually public orgs that do data collection on hate in the void of reliable institutional data. Honestly, I applaud and support @antihateca for wanting to take up survey research on this stuff.
Actually, one more FYI: Police don& #39;t tend to report harassment against marginalized people as hate crimes (or crimes for that matter). I& #39;ve been violently harassed in the streets of Ottawa several times. It& #39;s scary, it& #39;s horrible. And there is very little recourse.
I don& #39;t generally believe in carceral/punitive solutions to hate. But it& #39;s a glaring omission. Some of the most common instances of hate we face as trans women is street harassment and it& #39;s the least likely to be recorded or reported.
This sheds light into another flawed aspect of collating hate crime data. A lot of hate instances don& #39;t even count as hate crime and are often reported elsewhere in other categories. And again, how those data points are categorized differs across police departments.
