Smollett just the latest in trendy hoax-hate-crime industry

News Tribune ^ | 2 March 2019 | Bill Thompson

[BlackVeil]

... Indefatigable truth seekers -- such as independent journalist Andy Ngo, Glenn Beck’s The Blaze network and the Daily Caller news website -- have chronicled a list of roughly 20 prominent “hate crimes” that enthralled the media but, after further review by the booth, were phonier than a used car salesman’s smile.

Mostly, said cases involved black, Muslim or LGBT folks claiming an assault by the MAGA brigades. ...

[BlackVeil]

A reflection on recent events, and the industry that has grown up around hate crimes.

[BlackVeil]

p> FAKE! Fake Hate Crimes List

http://www.fakehatecrimes.org

Ping me to Fake Hate Crime stories. Everyone is welcome to join the list. PM me and be informed of the latest fake hate crimes.

[FrankR]

[TigersEye]

Two sites with extensive lists of #FakeHateCrimes

http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/

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

[left that other site]

Flip’s Prettier.

[LegendHasIt]

Maybe the highest profile, but hardly the latest:

Just yesterday was a guy in San Fransisco who claimed he was attacked by a MAGA hat wearing sword wielder.

[Fungi]

In any respect, Reddit is impossible to navigate.

[TigersEye]

Is it? The page I linked to seems easy enough. Just click on a link to a given hate crime hoax and the article opens in a new tab.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Its the trendy thing to do. Watch as Beto is “attacked” by Trump loving white men with skate boards.

[GOPJ]

There's a stronger need for pity parties than there are ‘racists or homophobes, or supremacists’ to fill those needs... I suspect almost all ‘hate crimes’ are hoaxes.

[BlackVeil]

I agree. There are so many hoaxes, and logic suggests that there are many more, undetected. Also, although there are genuine “hate crimes”, most of the perpetrators seem to be mental cases.

[equaviator]

For me, this kind of BS came to light in the 1990’s. Young women lying to the police about being scared of their boyfriends, husbands, ex-boyfriends and their girlfriends, ex-husbands and their wives, girlfriends, etc., could get away with at least making their enemies’ lives miserable having nothing but their word and the alleged appearance of something having happened. Back then I just chalked it up to some cops being fools for pretty faces, and then some of those faces appeared to have been beaten, but it was their own fists that gave them their black eyes...They hit themselves to make it look like assault. There’s no stopping a cop who believes a damsel in distress is telling the truth and the b*tches know it. Where do they learn this crap?

[GOPJ]

Tucker has some of the statistics on his show a while ago - turned out California had less than 80 hate crimes the year before. And that's a big state with lots of people. (Tucker explained the difference between 'complaints' and actual proven hate crimes - big difference)