Not sure how you can say this when a literal white supremacist just literally murdered a random black man in New York because he was black. Is that a hoax in your view?
The suggestion that we shouldn't worry about hate crimes until they're a leading cause of death for members of minority groups presumably doesn't deserve a response. Even in the Jim Crow south, it's not as if a majority of black people died from being lynched.
It's quite silly to suggest that I'm 'fearmongering' merely by referencing something that's already all over the news. I don't think my mention of this incident deep within an HN thread is likely to cause anyone to be more frightened than they already are.
As I said, statistically this event is irrelevant and doesn't add anything to discussion.
I hope that you are not being sincere.
In any case, as I already addressed your point about "statistical significance", it appears that you have nothing further to contribute to the discussion.
"Not sure how you can say that when this one guy sold his iPhone"
It sounds like a counter argument and fails to be one.