Many media outlets, including university student newspapers, have touted the Southern Poverty Law Center’s report on the alleged rise in “hate crimes” since the election of Donald Trump.
According to this report, some 4,000 educators claimed to “have heard derogatory language directed at students of color, Muslims, immigrants and people based on gender or sexual orientation.”
However, Paul Sperry of the New York Post points out that the SPLC failed to mention 2,000 instances of educators reporting anti-white hate incidents (presumably of an anti-Trump nature).
The Center had (also) asked in its questionnaire to agree or disagree with the statement “I have heard derogatory language or slurs about white students” … but did not include these results..
“Asked last week to provide the data, SPLC initially said it was having a hard time getting the information ‘from the researchers.’ Pressed, SPLC spokeswoman Kirsten Bokenkamp finally revealed that ‘about 20 percent answered affirmatively to that question.’”