{"id":3822,"date":"2017-02-01T06:58:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/staceydash\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2017-02-01T06:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:59:48","slug":"boston-sets-hate-crime-hotline-trumps-election-surprised-learn-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/staceydash\/2017\/02\/boston-sets-hate-crime-hotline-trumps-election-surprised-learn-abused\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston sets up a \u201chate crime hotline\u201d after Trump\u2019s election, but they were surprised to learn who was being abused"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/622274674\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/622274674?et=rdqhyYoSRNV2m0APEZv-jA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=zyfUa8XoBWe0F1x2bcJw2HRY7o2lhGnMr2lYo0dQ3Bk=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anticipating a deluge of hate crimes after the election of Donald Trump, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey set up a hotline to receive complaints. Much to her surprise, there were almost as many reports from Trump supporters as there were from Hillary Clinton fans.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/local_coverage\/2017\/01\/logs_trump_supporters_targeted_nearly_as_much_as_hillary_clinton_backers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Boston Herald<\/em><\/a> said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Records for the first two weeks, released in response to a Herald request, show 21 complaints from people reporting threats or harassment from Trump supporters, while 15 people called to report incidents targeting Trump supporters, a review showed\u2026<\/p>\n<p>From Nov. 14 to Nov. 28, 941 calls were logged, according to office logs and call descriptions from its first two weeks, and 186 of them were logged as complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Of those, 29 alleged threats or harassment were based on ethnicity or religion, eight were homophobic, six referenced white power or swastikas, and three were gender-based.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Several nationally reported incidents against the Make America Great Again crowd turned out to be fake, which leads to some doubt as to whether the reports are true. What has more proof of occurrence is Trump supporters being harassed for their political leanings which caused most of them to remain silent at work or out in public. That\u2019s something State Rep. Geoff Diehl noticed, as well, when he worked as co-chairman of the state\u2019s Trump campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was on a regular basis being informed about people having lawn signs stolen, so I would have to go deliver new ones. People were afraid to even talk about it at work or at social settings because of the harassment they were feeling they got back.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though\u00a0the hotline was assured to be \u201cfor everyone\u201d the results went against all expectations, namely, that Trump supporters were going to come out fighting. Of course, we all saw who it was that lost their minds over the election.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few complaints logged by Trump supporters on the hotline:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>A Woburn woman voting with her daughter, who was clad in a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d shirt, said her girl was \u201cverbally assaulted\u201d and \u201cpoll workers refused to help.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A Lakeville man claiming someone wrote \u201cRacist\u201d on his Trump signs in his yard, then took the signs days later.<\/li>\n<li>A woman with a Trump sticker on her car reported being harassed by drivers as she commuted to work each day, and she \u201cwanted to make sure that \u2026 it\u2019s happening to both sides.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, there were complaints reported to the hotline from Democrats, including allegations that Hispanic children were told to pack their bags by other students, and the random crazy who phoned in their complaints about the AG\u2019s gun control efforts, but it is also assumed that many hateful incidents weren\u2019t reported because the hotline wasn\u2019t promoted as bipartisan.<\/p>\n<p>As Rep. Diehl stated, \u201c[There was] little in the way of that hotline being promoted that would encourage Trump supporters to call in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tolerance is a one-way street for the Left.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doh! Well, that plan backfired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2277,"featured_media":3823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boston sets up a \u201chate crime hotline\u201d after Trump\u2019s election, but they were surprised to learn who was being abused<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Doh! 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