Why is racism so normalized on social media in 2025?

[sundin13]

KLXVER said:

sundin13 said:

I grabbed hate crime data from the UK because it was fairly easy to find and found that if you exclude cases where there is no ethnicity data on file, about 15% of hate crimes in the UK have a non-white perpetrator, which is roughly equal to the proportion of non-white individuals in the country.

Why would there be no ethnicity data on some and not on others?

In virtually every data set, there will be some data missing. It is extremely common in police data due to different reporting requirements across jurisdictions, incomplete data entry and human error.

As a non-ethnicity related example: I found that for youth crime sentencing, age group data was not available in 8% of cases in the UK in 2024.