UncleKG wrote:I'll give you the point about legal immigrants. I believe she's ranting on the fact that Trump's rhetoric has helped to embolden a few white Americans to attack and persecute people of color (and there have been dozens of valid complaints of that, as well as a few where those of color have falsely accused others). I'm pretty sure they're not stopping to ask, "are you legal or illegal?" before doing so.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/man-rips-off-muslim-woman-hijab_us_5736214fe4b060aa781a48b9
Confirmed Hate Hoaxesthe Texas family whose car and motorcycle were burned, and whose garage was spray-painted with "n----r lover", only to have the wife later reveal that her husband had hoaxed the community by doing it himself:
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/20 ... fe-saysthe black, "white supremacist" arrested for the infamous burned-down black church which had "Vote Trump" written on it:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fire ... n-44341228South Philly graffiti -- "Black Bitch", "Trump Rules" -- arrest made, turns out to be black "white supremacist":
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real ... ?mobi=trueyoung lady who was arrested for fabricating a story about an attack by racists on a NYC subway while yelling "Donald Trump":
http://ijr.com/2016/12/757186-muslim-te ... unishment/the young lady from Ann Arbor who fabricated a terrifying tale of a Trump supporter threatening that he'd burn the hijab off of her if she didn't take it off:
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/ann- ... -not-occurthe University of Louisiana at Lafayette student who now admits she fabricated her claim that men wearing Trump hats attacked her, knocked her down, and stole her headscarf:
http://klfy.com/2016/11/10/lafayette-pd ... len-hijab/the brown "white supremacist" arrested for writing KKK and swastikas at Nassau community college:
http://patch.com/new-york/gardencity/ma ... ted-policethe Bowling Green student who was arrested after falsely claiming she was attacked and taunted with racial slurs by MAGA-gear wearing Trump supporters:
http://www.wtol.com/story/33736486/bgsu ... ke-assaultanother student at BGSU who fabricated a story about a robbery and derogatory slur :
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/ ... e-too.htmla black man in Malden (Boston area) who claimed he was forced to run for his life after being threatened with lynching, chased, and told that "It's Trump country now", but then admitted he fabricated the story:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_ ... _in_maldenthe man who hung a nazi flag in SF (incidentally, across the street from his neighbors whose family members were Holocaust victims), only to later explain he was making an anti-Trump political statement:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/San- ... 605083.phpthe "courageous" throat-punching, racist-stomping woman who claimed to have bashed the fash only to be inexplicably handcuffed for her trouble, but who police say fabricated the incident:
http://www.mndaily.com/article/2016/11/ ... ty-studentWilliams College students who admitted they wrote KKK graffiti and dumped fake blood in a church to "bring attention to the effects of the presidential election":
http://williamsrecord.com/2016/11/16/tw ... -saturday/bisexual North Park University student whose school says fabricated hateful pro-Trump messages:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/no ... 56366.htmlan Elon University hate message that received national attention "Bye bye latinos hasta la vista" but was later revealed to be written by a Latino student who was upset about the results of the election and wrote the message as a "satirical commentary":
http://www.elonnewsnetwork.com/article/ ... ye-latinosthese Wellesley college kids, accused of screaming racist and homophobic slurs, but were cleared of charges when it was determined they were only yelling "Make America Great Again":
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/1 ... story.htmlthe woman who was supposedly threatened at a gas station with a gun by Trump supporters, but who never contacted police and has now deleted her accusation:
http://www.phillyvoice.com/police-no-of ... s-station/the Pittsburg, CA black, "white supremacist" whose sign reading "You can hang a n----r from a tree, equal rights he'll never see" went viral, only to be later revealed that he was protesting his mistreatment in probate court.:
http://kron4.com/2016/11/13/only-on-kro ... ghborhood/