Could you site some sources for this? I just assumed the news was covering it more heavily because money and there are no big wars going on right now.
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Its my aggregate impression from a number of different sources. This covers 2016 and differs in some details from my description:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/...
Well, I'm not going to read that whole thing. If you want to pull out an excerpt I'd read it.
The reason I think it's dangerous for the masses to decide things are facts based on "aggregate impressions" is that the media is not an objective sampling. For example, perhaps hatecrimes under Obama weren't newsworthy, but under Trump they are more-so because it hits all the emotional buttons.
This would lead to increased reporting, leading to an belief of increased prevalence.
I don't remember people getting as angry about Neonazi-marches in 2010, 2005, etc, but that's anecdotal.