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David Neiwert
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You keep holding up black unemployment's historically low levels as though black people should just be eternally grateful for the work you've given them. But there's a catch to those numbers -- including the reality that hate crimes are through the roof. Thread follows. 1)
2) First of all, while black unemployment is indeed at a record low, it's _still_ more than double the rate of white unemployment.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
3) More here.

epi.org/publication/20…
4) And even if there are more jobs, is life better for black people? Well, not if hate crimes, which have traditionally been used to terrorize minority communities, are factored in.

nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/…
5) Another study found that much of the hate being unleashed was increasingly connected to Trump's rhetoric and his policies.

washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…
6) Chief among the Trump administration's economic effects, of course, is aggravated income inequality, thanks in no small part to his recent tax cuts. Guess how that affects life for minoritie

fivethirtyeight.com/features/highe…
7) How does this affect black people specifically? Well, one study found that anti-black crimes were the top category of hate crime in five of the eight cities that reported them.

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8) What Spike Lee spoke was the truth. You have made the lives of every person of color -- black, Latino, Asian, Native American, Pacific Islander -- materially worse during your tenure in office. Hate crimes are being committed in your name, Mr. Trump.

washingtonpost.com/news/postevery…
9) And frankly, no sane person has even a wisp of hope that you might ever reverse course. Your presidency has been built on stoking hate. Now live with the consequences. #30

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Thank you, as always, @KevinMKruse. An appended thread, if you don't mind.

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@fred_guttenberg There's one major reason: Far-right culture (especially neo-Nazis, who often have fetishes for collecting genuine WWII German memorabilia) often revolves around gun shows. As someone who covers the radical right, I have been attending gun shows for years for this reason.
@fred_guttenberg Neo-Nazi/white nationalist/nativist ideologies are also well known for their embrace of violence as essential to their ethos, an extension of their innate authoritarianism. Gun shows are a sublimated version of this violence.
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