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Professor: Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than People Think
Hot Air ^ | February 22, 2019 | JOHN SEXTON

Posted on 02/23/2019 8:03:59 AM PST by Hojczyk

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor at Kentucky State University where he teaches political science. Reilly has a piece at USA Today which is based on a forthcoming book he is writing on hoax hate crimes. His conclusion is that these crimes happen far more often than people think:

Doing research for a book, Hate Crime Hoax, I was able to easily put together a data set of 409 confirmed hate hoaxes. An overlapping but substantially different list of 348 hoaxes exists at fakehatecrimes.org, and researcher Laird Wilcox put together another list of at least 300 in his still-contemporary book Crying Wolf. To put these numbers in context, a little over 7,000 hate crimes were reported by the FBI in 2017 and perhaps 8-10% of these are widely reported enough to catch the eye of a national researcher

Still, the total number of violent crimes in the U.S. in 2017 was 1,247,321 (that doesn’t include 7,694,086 property crimes). So in the scheme of things 7,100 hate crimes is not a huge number, which is obviously a good thing.

It would be interesting to know what span of time the 409 cases Prof. Reilly identified covers. The most interesting part of this piece is the suggestion that only about 10% of reported hate crimes generate much news.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: chicago; cryingwolf; hatecrimehoax; illinois; jussiesmollett; kentucky; lairdwilcox; smollett; wilfredreilly
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1 posted on 02/23/2019 8:03:59 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Does a hate crime have to have racial slurs or signs???


2 posted on 02/23/2019 8:06:59 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Does anyone know if their are more ‘hate’ crimes or black on white crimes?


3 posted on 02/23/2019 8:09:49 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Hojczyk

Hoax is how the Left monetize a lie.


4 posted on 02/23/2019 8:16:47 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Hojczyk

Yup, and why? Because we don’t prosecute the hoaxes as hate crimes.


5 posted on 02/23/2019 8:18:16 AM PST by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Hoax is how the Left monetize a lie.

And what is monetized is propagated.

6 posted on 02/23/2019 8:19:55 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: All
HEATHER MACDONALD: The Left demands utter credence toward any claim of racism and sexism;
the merest act of questioning these claims, or trying to pin down details, the Left regards as hateful.

7 posted on 02/23/2019 8:24:08 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Hojczyk

If you read the Matthew Shepherd hate crime legislation, which ironically was passed based on a fake hate crime, you’d be amazed at what constitutes a hate crime. It’s a pretty broad definition.


8 posted on 02/23/2019 8:34:44 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Hojczyk
The black community has been faking their pity parties for decades.

Last year there were less than 70 hate crimes in the State of California.

Real hate crimes in the United States are few and far between...

There's lots of ‘hate complaints, micro aggressions and dog whistles" - - which are little more than ‘chip on the shoulder’ BS...

But as far as real HATE CRIMES? Charged, prosecuted, proved in are court of law??? - almost none. Tucker had the numbers on his show last night. Facts are going to be a game changer.

The black community has been faking their pity parties for decades.

9 posted on 02/23/2019 8:37:31 AM PST by GOPJ (The Jussie Smollett Media Hoax is a hate crime against Trump Supporters - - John Nolte)
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To: TheZMan

What abut the hoaxes that WERE prosecuted as “hate crimes”, and the hoax was not revealed until much later, if ever?

Would there ever be any redress for those accused and prosecuted under “hate crime” statutes, when in fact they were innocent but railroaded?


10 posted on 02/23/2019 8:45:52 AM PST by alloysteel (History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill)
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To: alloysteel; Libloather; Sooth2222; atc23; Bloody Sam Roberts; CptnObvious; Ouderkirk; LibWhacker; ..
The black community has been faking pity parties for decades.

Last year there were less than 70 hate crimes in the State of California.

Real hate crimes in the United States are few and far between...

There's lots of ‘hate complaints, micro aggressions and dog whistles" - - which are little more than ‘chip on the shoulder’ BS...

But as far as real HATE CRIMES? Charged, prosecuted, proved in are court of law??? - almost none. Tucker had the numbers on his show last night. Facts are going to be a game changer.

The black community has been faking their pity parties for decades. PING

11 posted on 02/23/2019 8:58:53 AM PST by GOPJ (The Jussie Smollett Media Hoax is a hate crime against Trump Supporters - - John Nolte)
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Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than People know

By now most of us think these things are pretty common. Most are never reported so we don't know how extensive they are but we suspect and believe.

12 posted on 02/23/2019 9:00:17 AM PST by arthurus (yu444)
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To: Hojczyk

Did you add Michael Brown and Travon to the list of great racial hoaxes.


13 posted on 02/23/2019 9:12:40 AM PST by maddogtiger
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To: fhayek

black on white crimes are astronomical and dwarf the so-called Hate-Crimes. Interestingly enough, few of the black on white crimes are ever considered “hate-crimes”.


14 posted on 02/23/2019 9:13:40 AM PST by euram
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The Hartford Distributors shooting in 2012 was preceded by a hate crime hoax.

In that shooting, ex-employee Omar Sheriff Thornton killed eight innocents plus himself with a Ruger pistol.

The attack commenced as Thornton was being escorted from the property after having been fired for stealing beer; the thefts had been recorded by a video surveillance system.

Thornton claimed he had "seen" a picture of a noose drawn on a bathroom wall, along with a racial epithet. Most of the employees at the Hartford Distributors warehouse were white, although there were several African-American employees also. Two of the A-A employees stated that they had not experienced racism on the job, and knew of no noose or other racist pictures or words in the bathroom or elsewhere.

15 posted on 02/23/2019 9:19:42 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: maddogtiger

at Claremont college in soCal a woman professor spray painted racial epithets on her car. That was about 4 years ago. Fake hate crime.


16 posted on 02/23/2019 9:20:44 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Hojczyk

Another, larger, list of fake Hate Crimes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/aag2yh/fake_hate_crimes_official/


17 posted on 02/23/2019 9:30:21 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: euram
Yeah, kind of my point. White on black crimes are more or less assumed to be hate crimes. Black on white barely are news anymore.

Now white on white, black on black, white/black, black/white should all be decried. When we make distinctions about the inherent hatred of the cases, it almost begs for these hoaxes to be perpetrated.

18 posted on 02/23/2019 9:33:55 AM PST by fhayek
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Thanks Hojczyk. Good rule of thumb is, if the media covers something as a hate crime, it's a hoax. If the media smears kids participating in March for Life, the smear is an actual hate crime.

19 posted on 02/23/2019 9:45:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: fhayek

Try to find out how many whites are raped, injured, or killed by blacks in a week.

You’d better pack a lunch if you’re going to try.


20 posted on 02/23/2019 9:48:04 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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