A Trend In Faked Hate
It seems we see more and more fake "hate crimes" these days, and I've been wondering why.
A way to get attention? A way to get revenge? A way to get some money from sympathetic crowd-funders? A way to throw a little weight on whomever you perceive as your opponent? Or just a way to feel you're somebody and part of something?
I do think social media has a lot to do with it -- people seeing that other people get attention, sympathy, and money from being victims -- or perhaps "victims."
Well, the latest apparent faked hate crime, according to a couple's lawyer, is the claim by a waitress that she was stiffed out of a tip by a couple who wrote at the bottom of the check that they "don't tip Black people."
From WTOP:
Daniel Hebda, of the law firm Simms Showers, said in a statement that he represents the couple who ate at Anita's New Mexico Style Café, in Ashburn, on Jan. 7. The bill came to $30.52, and as NBC Washington first reported, waitress Kelly Carter said that while the couple paid the bill, they left without tipping, writing instead on the bottom of the check, "great service don't tip Black people."Hebda said that their client actually tipped Carter -- a penny -- and that the amount had nothing to do with Carter's race but her service. Hebda says his client claims that Carter's service was "poor," and that the note he wrote on the bottom of the bill was "terrible service."
Hebda claims that someone reprinted the receipt, forged his client's signature and lack of tip, then wrote the racist note on the bottom.
"Our client did not nor would he ever write anything about refusing to tip African Americans because of their race," Hebda said in the statement. "Our client has no ill feelings towards African Americans. Our client did not leave e $0.00 tip. Our client tipped $0.01 out of his own conviction against tipping well for poor service."
Hebda adds that they have contacted the lawyers for Anita's "and demanded that they set the story straight and find out who is responsible."
There was an almost identical hoax a few years ago. A lesbian waitress claimed that a customer left no tip and wrote something nasty about lesbians on the receipt. The customer had paid with a card, and they produced their credit card bill showing that they had in fact left a fairly generous tip.
As to why people fake hate crimes: it's an easy method of virtue-signaling and getting lots of fawning press and social media attention, and their is very little downside risk. We don't know how many hoaxes are or aren't exposed, but we know that when they are, the only place where the info appears is on conservative web sites that most people don't know exist, or don't pay any attention to. It's very rare for a hate-crime hoaxer to be called out and suffer any harm from their acts.
Cousin Dave at February 27, 2017 7:47 AM
Of course social media don't fact check anything and the most absurd stuff goes viral, but "real" media also pass this cr*p along without doing the slightest checking. There have been lots of racial hoaxes, from fake assaults to threats written on dorm room doors to fake nooses hanging on campus. Quick to report, never to retract seems to be the new media's motto. And they wonder why they aren't trusted.
cc at February 27, 2017 8:15 AM
Quick to report, never to retract seems to be the new media's motto. And they wonder why they aren't trusted.
But when they do retract, the story that appeared above the fold on page A1 is retracted or apologized for is on page C27.
In really small print. Next to the county notices.
I R A Darth Aggie at February 27, 2017 8:32 AM
Our generous hostess wrote:
"It seems we see more and more fake "hate crimes" these days, and I've been wondering why."
Hoaxes of the kind described, that have an income aspect - 'they didn't leave a tip because I'm gay/black/overweight/whatever' - almost-always seem to have a crowdfunding appeal associated with them. There's your answer.
As Cousin Dave remarks, most of the other kinds of 'hate crime' hoaxes are some combination of virtue-signaling and attention-seeking. Victimhood has become a sort of social currency and value-system, and it's easy to acquire, with virtually no risk or downside. Being a victim appears to be almost a perquisite for entry into the 'right' social-justice circles.
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llamas at February 27, 2017 9:22 AM
What I'd like to know is, why don't we hear about false accusations against priests, as a rule?
Btw, if I recall correctly, in the 2015 book "Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church: The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight," it was said that the main reason we didn't hear much about girls being victimized by priests was that even parents who thought priests could walk on water had a gut aversion to leaving their young daughters alone with adult male non-relatives for long periods of time - so the abusers had little opportunity.
lenona at February 27, 2017 12:44 PM
I would say it's a way to advance the false narrative. I do research for my various projects on social justice warriors, and if I got nothing else from that, I learned this: never, ever accept anything you hear as a given, no matter how plausible it sounds.
Black Lives Matter tells you that the police are targeting black people. Which sounds completely plausible if you're of the liberal persuasion.
I wanted to see the evidence, myself. And it turns out, according to research by Peter Moskos, assistant professor in the criminal justice department at John Jay University, former Baltimore cop and author of the book, "Cop In the Hood," in cases of arrest for homicide, cops are 1.7 times more likely to fire upon white suspects than black ones. And in cases where cops are killed, cops are 1.3 times more likely to fire upon white suspects than black ones.
Harvard professor and economist (who is also black) Roland G. Fryer, Jr., in what he called "the most surprising result of my career," after evaluating several of the largest police departments in the country, discovered that police are over 20% more likely to fire upon white suspects than black ones.
So, fake hate crimes exist because the facts do not support the narrative.
Patrick at February 27, 2017 1:37 PM
Isab hasn't commented on this thread, so I will point something out.
Even if this incident were true, it's not a hate crime. The operative word in "hate crime" is "crime."
It is not a crime to stiff a waitress. A hate crime or bias crime is a crime in which the offender reveals a bias against the demographic of which the victim is a part.
The murder of James Byrd is a hate crime because at least two of this three murderers were revealed to be white supremacists and the evidence supporting that their motivation was due to anti-black bias.
It should be self-evident, but a hate crime has to include some sort of crime. Usually it involves violence or damage to the victim's property.
Hate to be such a stickler, but I'm tired of the phrase "hate crime" being overused. And I reached my limit when that ignorant, redneck, horse's ass Pamela Ramsey Taylor insisted she was the victim of a hate crime due to the backlash she received after describing Michelle Obama as "a [sic] Ape [sic] in heels."
Patrick at February 27, 2017 1:56 PM
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