Hate crime is a meaningless and dangerous myth
by Leo McKinstry, Daily Express:
Britain is a land of remarkable tolerance but that is not how the politically correct brigade regards us.
On the contrary, self-righteous social engineers see our nation as a boiling cauldron of bigotry.
According to this narrative, vicious prejudice has increased dramatically because of the vote for Brexit, which supposedly unleashed a tidal wave of xenophobia and intimidation.
There was more ammunition for such hysteria this week with the publication of the latest so-called “hate crime” figures by the Home Office.
In solemn, guilt-tripping tones, most of the media seized on the report as evidence that our country is gripped by a growing epidemic of brutish discrimination.
With ill-disguised glee the BBC noted “a spike in hate crime around the time of the EU referendum”.
Inevitably the political establishment and campaigners united in manufactured outrage at these findings.
Typical was the reaction of shadow home secretary Diane Abbott who called the report’s conclusions “unacceptable” and demanded action to tackle this “great injustice”.
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