The V O I D wrote:Carl Yastrzemski wrote:
I would love to see your sources for those statistics, because I'm willing to bet the money in my pocket against the money in your pocket that those statistics aren't true at all.
Hope you're ready to pay up. The Williams Institute published this report on hate crimes per 100,000 people in the US. Currently, anti-LGBT crimes combined trump even anti-Semitic and anti-Black crimes by a huge margin. To say they weren't equal at one time is false; perhaps they were equally bad at one time, but now it is much worse. In fact, anti-LGBT crimes are at the point where I think it is safe to say that blacks are no longer the most discriminated against minority, and therefor LGBT discrimination is now the top concern.
Uh, good sir, your stats are largely 2001-present, perhaps inclusive only back to 1995. When you provide tangible evidence to disprove that LGBT were targeted for murder/assault/rape at a higher level than blacks in or before the 1800s, I'll "pay up". Until then, you haven't proven anything.