Based on public surveys, there are around 250,000 hate crimes in the US each year. A media outlet could easily pick out a dozen of these on any given year and hype them up like it's a new trend, even if it's not at all.
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Here's the survey data. https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hcv0415.pdf …
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This stops 6 years ago. Feel like the period after this might have seen a surge of white supremacist violence for some reason, but what do I know?
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