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Why Hate Crimes Are on the Rise

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Many have placed blame for the rise in hate crimes at the foot of political leaders and specifically President Trump for emboldening anti-Semites and white supremacists—very fine people, he’s called them—but yet, there’s another, equally troubling side to the story—one that calls into question the validity of the FBI’s own hate crime statistics and gives us more questions than answers. Full transcript available on the Harvard Divinity School website: https://bit.ly/2IDS5Hw HDS social and e-newsletter: https://bit.ly/2XMxxAb

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