Right-Wing Extremists Committed All of the Hate-Crime Killings in 2018
3 min readJul 11, 2019
It would be easy to chalk up an increased public wariness about hate crimes and extremism in the United States to media-fueled scaremongering, but the unfortunate truth is that 2018 saw a significant spike in hate-motivated murders. In fact, 2018 was the fourth worst year on record since 1970, with at least 50 such murders — a big leap from the 37 killings in 2017.
