School hate crimes targeting LGBTQ+ people have sharply risen in recent years, climbing fastest in states that have passed laws restricting LGBTQ student rights and education, a Washington Post analysis of FBI data finds.

In states with restrictive laws, the number of hate crimes on K-12 campuses has more than quadrupled since the onset of a divisive culture war that has often centered on the rights of LGBTQ+ youth.

This makes it pretty clear that the effect of those laws is to encourage teens to beat up classmates suspected of being gay.

    • Dojan
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      78 months ago

      Yeah. It’s absolutely the goal.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      Why pledge your future to all those time consuming hate crimes when you can just indoctrinate kids to do it for you!

    • @shalafi
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      18 months ago

      The framers of these laws don’t give two shits what happens to LGBT kids. They write these laws for votes, no more, no less.

  • @[email protected]
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    108 months ago

    Motivating the brown shirts to commit acts of terrorism has never not been the goal of that sort of fucking rhetoric.