Occams Razor is a decision making and determinative tool, it is not to be confused with evidence.
Again, you may be right.
I simply disagree with espousing opinion, regardless of validity (or invalidity for that matter), as fact.
I don’t like it from ACC/AGW crowd or that BLM/HUDS hucksters, and I don’t like it here. Call it a pet peeve.
I don’t disagree with being suspicious of such claims. I just like actual evidence to debunk them.
At the risk of continuing this well-intentioned (by both of us) dialog well into the wee hours, here's why I labeled it with the bracketed term of "[HOAX!]", admittedly editorial judgement on my part. And, yes, I think we may end us agreeing only to civilly and respectfully disagree. To be upfront, I'm not denying that
some incident actually happened. Maybe that was ambiguous in the headline I chose. There was indeed blood and evidence of violence. The "hoax" is attributing this to anti-homosexual hatred not the criminal act itself.
- The source for this is SeeBS, a manufacturer of lie after lie for decades.
- As I noted upthread, the Oak Lawn part of Dallas is heavily populated by sodomites. They do tend to be the type to fly off the handle.
- We here in the Dallas area had another hoax perpetrated recently with the hoax bomb in Irving. So hoaxes are top-of-mind hereabouts.
- In the late '90s, a number of black churches were burned in the region and the lamestream media was quick to jump on the "hate crime" angle. They were wrong.
- The Alliance Defending Freedom declared Matthew Shepard's murder as a hoax to advance the homosexual agenda. This hits home here in Texas since majority of the state opposes same-sex marriage. What better way to elicit sympathy than to claim a hate crime?
- And finally, there's Alec Torres' excellent article, Eleven Hate-Crime Hoaxes.
In short, since the overwhelming majority of these "hate crimes" have turned out to anything but, I opted to go with the "[HOAX!]" since it's by far the most likely case. All that said, I am a reasonable person and in the event that I turn out to be wrong, I'll admit it. I doubt that will happen but we'll see.