Salt Lake Tribune reporter Taylor Stevens just published on article on the hate being thrown at refugees in Utah since President Trump was elected. Turns out their fears about Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric were justified. People who may have felt embarrassed about expressing anti-immigrant views prior to Trump taking office seem to now feel justified in verbalizing their racist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant views.
It’s not a view that Utahns should have. Whether you are LDS, Catholic, Muslim or atheist, whether you are Republican, Democrat, libertarian or unaffiliated, basic human decency requires that we not be hateful jerks to people who are different than us.