I entirely agree. It isn't. Further, I don't think the Brexit vote caused hate crimes. I think an increase in racist arseholes caused Brexit
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So people like me who voted Brexit are racist?
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You're certainly an arsehole..
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I think we should be able to disagree without resorting to name-calling. With the exception of Farage, of course. he IS an arsehole.
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In areas that voted to leave the EU the spike in hate crime is huge. In areas that voted to stay in the EU the spike is almost no existent.
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just one of those pesky coincidences...;)
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Oh come on. The notion the two are unrelated is absurdly far fetched.
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Met Police hate crime 98 days bef+aft Brexit: AntiSemitic up 20%, Islam up 13%, Racist up 34%. But, you know, facts https://www.met.police.uk/globalassets/foi-media/disclosure_2016/november_2016/information-rights-unit---statistics-in-regards-to-the-number-of-hate-crimes-committed-from-before-and-after-the-brexit-vote …
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Tobacco companies used that argument for years against the link between smoking and lung cancer. Your ignorance is that bad.
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True. Xenophobic attacks in the wake of a successful xenophobic campaign may well have had nothing to do with each other.
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You are genuinely stupid
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Your repeating that the
#HomeOffice is wrong or lying. Black-eyes are not causes by punches to the face; according to@JuliaHB1 .
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So what else might've caused such a direct correlation? Any suggestions? Because denial isn't the same as rebuttal.
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Correlation does not *necessarily* imply causation, but it absolutely can. In this case, it seems the most likely explaination.
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