It mentioned that there was an increase in hate crimes against Blacks and Asians.
And those were the only groups mentioned.
Here is the list of hate crime incidents by number of victims per defined groups:
|
Anti-Black or African American |
2,755 |
|
Anti-White |
773 |
|
Anti-Jewish |
676 |
|
Anti-Gay (Male) |
649 |
|
Anti-Hispanic or Latino
|
507 |
|
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender
(Mixed Group) |
279 |
|
Anti-Asian |
274 |
|
Anti-Transgender |
196 |
|
Anti-Islamic (Muslim) |
104 |
Certainly the anti-Asian attacks deserve to be mentioned because they increased so dramatically. But there were six paragraphs about that topic in the CNN report - and not even one mention of anti-Jewish hate crimes, which outnumbered anti-Asian hate crimes by 246%!
It seems like antisemitism is not mentioned because it is not news - the number of incidents was slightly lower than the previous year. But the decision to say that 274 incidents against Asians was worth highlighting while incidents against Jews is not worth mentioning, when anti-Jewish attacks are the lions' share of anti-religious attacks, was made by reporters and editors.
