Professor: Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than People Think

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Professor: Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than People Think​

Professor: Hate crime hoaxes are more common than people think
By John Sex ~~ 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.



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HEATHER MACDONALD say's:

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.​

There are people and organizations on the Progressive Left who will manufacture something whole cloth to sway public opinion to achieve political goals?
Beginning with Al Sharpton's hoax with Tawana Brawley, then there's that phony rape or vandalism professor -- no, she was never fired -- at that So Cal college (law school) and ending WHERE? Hands Up Don't Shoot? Then again we also had the Duke La Crosse team hoax with Crystal Magnum. Let's all remember the out and out Black on White horrible double murder hate crime of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
"Hate crime", the dumbest thing the left ever thought up. Seems straight forward, until you realize that only "minorities" can be victims. Those elderly white people, sucker punched by Black youths isn't a "hate crime". Two young college students tortured and murdered not considered hate crimes no matter how gruesome. Go figure. Many times, minorities will claim a 'hate crime' was committed against them because that's how they "feel".