To add to that, even if any of the these threats, either the ones that have happened or the ones we know are coming, are the work of people that consider themselves pranksters, even if we, too, choose to call them pranks, they’re certainly NOT harmless.
Any one of these crimes both increases fear in the targeted community, and emboldens the bigots who hate said community. To any civilized member of the national community, that ain’t funny.
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