Trumpland, MA: A little cyberbullying at East Boston High School

Even if I voted for Johnson ;-)

If you don't think that bullying women wearing scarves and spraying swastikas on temples and houses of jews is a crime, I guess you would think that.

Two recent hoaxes in MA.
http://redmassgroup.com/2016/11/hoaxland-ma/

No one has said there is a crime wave. What is reported is the increase in the number of incidents which are based upon animus against specific groups, especially anyone considered an immigrant (legal or not). An interesting example of these incidents being against immigrants was the verbal abuse of a Puerto Rican person who was told to go back their country. The person is told to go back to their country because they appeared to be an immigrant. It didn't matter that the person was born in the United States, specifically Puerto Rico. What mattered is that they appeared to be an immigrant.

The attacks based on place of origin are an honored tradition for diverting attention away from the economic structural problems and social problems of the nation. Attacks against immigrants as the nation endured the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, or was absorbing the millions of European immigrants during the early 20th century, were accepted methods of avoiding understanding and dealing with major issues. Examples were the problems created by overburdened cities, recessions and depressions (e.g., the Depression of the 1870s), the wave of family violence caused by cheap alcohol (leading to the 18th Amendment), the assumption that Americans of German ancestry were automatically untrustworthy during WWI and worst, violating Japanese-Americans of their rights by imprisoning them for no reason other than being Japanese during WWII. This list of course does not include the greatest sins of the United States, slavery, and the near genocide of first and native Americans, and how those sins fit into the of the pattern of a nation ruled by people who want a society that is only white, Protestant, heterosexual, capitalist (e.g., puts greed above the common good), where men are in charge and women are subservient, etc.

To apply the term crime wave follows a similar tradition of diverting a discussion by using a term that is tangentially and indirectly related to the discussion but in reality diverts the discussion to a non-existent problem. These incidents of bigotry are not characterized as a crime wave of the sort that Mafia of old or gangs of the present would engage in, what otherwise would known as a war among criminals. Rather they are identified as the behaviors of individuals, not organized as in organized crime, who feel emboldened to express in irrational, purposely offensive, sometimes threatening and even illegal actions. Individuals acting on their own, not organized criminals causing a crime wave.

Good try at railroading the discussion but the attempt failed.

Racially-targeted sentiments which tell students to kill themselves isn't bullying? Well then, carry on..