i grew up in MD. a very liberal place. lots of liberal black folks and lots of liberal jewish folks. one thing i learned while growing up there (because it happened so damned often) was that liberals love the attention of being victims and would often report that they’d been victims of hate-inspired crimes, only to have it come out months later that they had faked it all. the local news media would rush to cover stories of crosses being burned into the lawns of black folks, or swastikas being spray painted on synagogue doors, but they rarely ever followed up with stories 6 months later when the police had concluded that the “crimes” had been hoaxes. this happened not once or twice while i was growing up there... but more like once or twice per year. it got to the point where any such story on the news was dismissed by observant people as a likely hoax. i’m not sure if there is a term for this phenomenon. there must be. but it’s very common in 1-party liberal states. i’m not surprised that the LBGTQWGFHYTREAZIOWERT crowd has jumped onto the bandwagon.
What do you mean by "jumped onto the bandwagon"?
Munchausen syndrome.
In Utah, a moron middle-easterner with a failing hotel business tried the same thing right after Sept. 11th. He claimed that people were driving past his hotel giving him “hard” looks, yelling insults, and vandalizing things (dude had cameras but they mysteriously never captured anything). When he burned the place down and claimed it was anti-muslim haters, it wasn’t too hard to catch him in repeated lies and get him to confess that he did it to get out of his financial problems.