Following the election of Donald Trump on November 9, incidents of “hateful intimidation and harassment” have occurred in record numbers, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). As of November 14 the group has collected 437 reports just since the election.
“Since Donald Trump won the election we’ve seen an alarming number of hate-based incidents occur throughout the nation, some of which are no doubt stemming from Trump’s hate-filled campaign,” the SPLC said in a statement to ThinkProgress, calling the number of reports a “truly frightening number.”
This number of hate incidents is often seen over a period of five to six months, rather than less than one week. The SPLC also reported that “many incidents involved direct references to the Trump campaign and its slogans.”
