You can get prosecuted for a racist hate crime for so much as blinking the wrong way now. So I’d take that headline with a rather large pinch of salt.
Interesting. Obviously it’s not actually the worst time for this stuff, but it’s reported more (probably still not reported most of the time) and the bar to be called a hate crime is lower than before.
That’s a bizarrely high number…. 270 a day, everyday? Really?
I could paint my living room white and I could have BLM at my front door, so I’ll take that figure with a pinch of salt.
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Love it when they don’t bother to link to the full report
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022
Much better depth.
When [posting the lyrics to rap songs on Facebook](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/woman-who-posted-rap-lyrics-14543694) or [teaching your dog to raise its paw when you say ‘Heil Hitler’](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925) can get you prosecuted for committing a hate crime, I question what those numbers really mean.
You can get prosecuted for a racist hate crime for so much as blinking the wrong way now. So I’d take that headline with a rather large pinch of salt.
Interesting. Obviously it’s not actually the worst time for this stuff, but it’s reported more (probably still not reported most of the time) and the bar to be called a hate crime is lower than before.
That’s a bizarrely high number…. 270 a day, everyday? Really?
I could paint my living room white and I could have BLM at my front door, so I’ll take that figure with a pinch of salt.
What an incredible country I live in.
I really should fuck off sometime.