America The Hateful -- Or America, The Hoax-Filled?
In the Detroit News, Nolan Finley writes that America's supposed hate crime surge is a hoax, according to Kentucky State U prof Wilfred Reilly, who extensively researched hate-fueled violence in America for his book "Hate Crime Hoax":
Reilly's research finds that most high-profile hate crimes over the past few years have turned out to be hoaxes.Reilly studied 409 reported hate crimes over the past five years that received media attention. They include incidents such as the racist graffiti at Eastern Michigan University and the minority woman in Grand Rapids who claimed a group of white men urinated on her.
"In major cases, almost all of them have been hoaxes," Reilly says. "The number of hate crime hoaxes actually exceeds the number of convictions. The majority of these high-profile incidents never happened."
...Americans may be politically divided. But they aren't taking their disagreements to the streets. Nor have they created a dangerous environment for certain groups of their fellow citizens.
"Portraying America as a hate-filled country is wildly inaccurate," Reilly says.
Reilly writes at Commentary:
I take no position on what exact percentage of all hate crimes are hoaxes. Such a conclusion would be nearly impossible to calculate. It would be necessary, just for starters, to determine the percentage of all cases of alleged interracial fist fights that were classified as hate crimes across every county-level police precinct in the United States, the conviction versus dismissal rate for those crimes, and the percentage of prosecutorial dismissals or nolle prosequi decisions that were motivated by a belief that the allegation in question was a false one.
As for the harm and the potential profit from alleging a hate crime where none actually exists, Reilly continues:
False hate crimes inflict a heavy cost on society. People--even decent people, people of good will--cannot be completely unaffected when they are continually told that their fellow citizens are targeting their own race for crimes. The hoaxes are bound to increase hostility between blacks and whites. The wonder is that, very much to the credit of the American people, these fake hate crimes have not (yet) fomented more real hate crimes. But if the fake crimes continue unabated and unexposed, it is only a matter of time before the racial divisions they fuel will inspire actual violence.Why would anyone fake a hate crime? The basic answers are fame, profit, and the advancement of a political ideology.
It's no secret that there exists a large and well-entrenched grievance industry in the United States. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which labels organizations such as the Family Research Council and Jewish Political Action Committee "hate groups," pulls in $51.8 million per year and has a well-invested endowment of $432 million. While perhaps a bit more cash-poor, the great black advocacy organizations are no slouches when it comes to rallying the troops: The official Facebook page for Black Lives Matter boasted 326,993 likes and 332,368 followers when I accessed it in November 2018.
Civil-rights groups such as the NAACP, the Urban League, and indeed some of the very organizations mentioned above all did considerable good in the past, notably during the civil-rights movement of the 1940s to 1960s. But today these organizations have a deep-rooted interest in presenting the sort of bigotry they fight as a serious ongoing problem in the United States in order to continue receiving donations and funding. More broadly, it would not be wild speculation to say that one in every 10 dollars spent in business interacts in some way with an affirmative-action or minority set-aside program. These programs too have advocates, who welcome evidence of their own necessity in society. Especially in a liberal environment, such as a college campus, the false report of a hate crime brings both predictable support from a preset group of allies and a chance to strike back at perceived oppressors.
The BBC opines that there's no point in rewriting fairy tales for they are only one of a myriad of evils keeping womyn in their place.
Proving again that any Web article headline that ends in a question mark can be answered 'No'.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at April 15, 2019 11:13 PM
Hate crime is a hoax category. Either you violate someone-- and if so your "reasons" are irrelevant-- or you don't.
Kent McManigal at April 16, 2019 7:32 AM
My uncle used to joke that the cat's job in the house was keeping it safe from elephants and rhinos; the fact that you didn't see one was proof the cat was on the job.
Most "civil rights" groups these days strike me that way. They're not really there to protect us from a real danger (not a real danger anymore), but to protect us from phantom dangers; things that our ancestors had to worry about, but we no longer do - monsters under the bed et al.
Conan the Grammarian at April 16, 2019 7:54 AM
The BBC is being silly again. Children identify with heroes and heroines in fairy tales because those heroes and heroines usually start out powerless, as do children.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." ~ G.K. Chesterton
Conan the Grammarian at April 16, 2019 8:02 AM
I know from conversations that many blacks in chicago feel "uncomfortable" in the white suburbs and might even get a traffic stop. It is even true that a person now in their 60s was told as kids not to cross into the white neighborhoods. BUT they are currently in much more real danger on the south side where they do feel comfortable than in a white suburb. Such sensitivity can play out as paranoia and imputing racism to things that are not. I heard an older black man who lives in the suburbs claim that people always look at him, but perhaps it has been (if it even happens) because he is built like a bear and walks with a limp. In my experience, most people ignore everyone around them, whatever their color.
cc at April 16, 2019 9:02 AM
My sister is in a similar mode. She sees sexism in everything. It's not quite to the level of seeing tangled christmas lights and blaming sexist men for it, but she is getting close. She tells us all of the horrible sexist things that happen at her workplace and is frustrated that none of us (both male and female) have ever had to deal with what she has to go through. She get especially mad when we tell her to find a better job somewhere else, preferably without a union.
Ben at April 16, 2019 1:22 PM
Reilly's got it mostly right, but not this part: "...Americans may be politically divided. But they aren't taking their disagreements to the streets. Nor have they created a dangerous environment for certain groups of their fellow citizens."
Prosecutions (and movements to cause prosecution) of these fake hate crimes certainly do create that dangerous environment by misusing law enforcement.
And conservative speakers still can't be heard in places like Portland and Berkeley because Antifa terrorists take their disagreements to the streets ... with help from corrupt police who deliberately disarm only the victims before they meet.
Civil War II has already begun. The only question is when, or if, the victims are going to have the balls to start shooting back.
jdgalt at April 18, 2019 11:08 AM
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