The Problem With Tracking Hate

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Southern Poverty Law Center rushed to track the surge in reported hate incidents after the election—a surge that appears to have died down. Heidi Beirich explains the SPLC's plans to weed any hoaxes out of its data and why it's a bad idea to minimize incidents of hate just because they don't rise to the level of a crime. For the Spiel, getting acquainted with Canada's Trump(s). Today's sponsor: Points of Courage, a podcast from Hiscox Insurance about the adventure of starting up a business. Check out Points of Courage wherever you get your podcasts, and learn more about how Hiscox Insurance can help protect your business by going to Hiscox.com. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	It's Tuesday, January 24, 2017 from Slated's Digestive Mike Pesca and Sean Spicer's Enumeracy
0:13.8	has reared its head again.
0:15.9	He was asked in today's press conference about President Trump's claims that but for
0:20.1	the votes of millions of illegals, he'd have won the popular election.
0:24.9	The president does believe that.
0:26.4	He has stated that before.
0:27.4	I think he stated his concerns voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign.
0:32.9	And he continues to maintain that belief based on studies and evidence that people have
0:36.6	presented to him.
0:38.1	Beliefs.
0:39.1	You can't fault a guy for his belief system.
0:40.9	It's his faith.
0:42.2	I believe the children of the future.
0:44.6	Trump believes that children of Hondurans are stuffing ballot boxes.
0:48.4	Totally unprovable.
0:50.1	Then Sean Spicer was pressed again and here's where the enumeracy reared its head.
0:54.5	I think there's been studies that came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14% of people who
1:00.9	voted were non-citizens.
1:02.6	There's other studies that have been presented to him.
1:05.1	So there was no Pew study attached to 14%.
1:07.8	But anyway, that original talking point is still all wrong.
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