[Kipp]

The exact same sentence applied to people convicted of rape.
Because the false accusation of rape is the rape of a person.

Spot on.

[rlmorel]

The lack of actual punishment encourages this behavior in these people. If I call them mentally ill, that lets them off the hook. They are uniformly leftists who do this kind of thing.

There have been dozens and dozens of these fake rapes and “hate crime” hoaxes, and I will bet less than 1% get prosecuted, and even fewer actually have the sentence carried out.