Is the rise in hate crimes here to stay?

That claim has been thrown around, but I don't know if it's a true claim. It might just be paranoia. There's always hate crime. It's probably just people are focusing on it now. I'd have to see stats, before I really made a comment on it. But I do think things are getting very unstable. First with Black Lives Matter stirring up a bunch of bullshit, now with a racist and sexist as President. It really feels like the upper echelons *want* to start a race war or stir around racial relations and fuck them up. I've never seen anything like this level of racial tension in my life.

As for this lone Muslim attacker, I don't know why he did it, but there is always the possibility that it was mental illness instead of religious or racial fervor. As to whether or not I expect more lone wolf attacks, this has been going on for awhile now. Yes. I expect more attacks, because we have 400 mass shootings a year in the U.S. where mass shooting is defined as 4 or more casualties in a public place. Just statistically speaking, some of them are going to be Muslims.

The thing is. Most of these attackers show signs that they are dangerous before actually doing anything. Like the Boston bombing. The government was actually warned about the guy by some other government. But they just didn't do shit. Probably because they're too busy scanning billions of e-mails and spying on the American populace. That's way too much info to sift through. We could do a lot better job if we focused on tips and shit, like we always used to, instead of relying on the Patriot Act and spying on perfectly innocent U.S. citizens.