He's the 'gay Tupac'.

This is a classic example of how the left causes racism and division in our society.

A leftist Hollywood actor concocts a story that he was attacked for being black and gay with so many holes it's embarrassing.

The leftist media LAP IT UP because it fits with their narrative that the US is a deeply racist country, that's full of nazis, full of white supremacist Trump voters, and it's got even worse with him as president. Wrong.

This is how the fake news BBC have reported the whole bulls*** story as fact – despite incredibly sketchy/no evidence to corroborate his claims. You read the headlines and believe it's true, right? [Link]

We'll see if the BBC and Sky News write an amended story on how it was all a hoax and if it makes the home page!

Meanwhile, the Democrats have deleted their tweets of outrage on this so called 'racist' incident.

It also underlines how much 'hate crime' is often actually fabricated.

Let's hope this Smollett gets dropped by his employers and convicted for wasting police time. And forever be known as a racist.

Edited by Penge Eagle (20 Feb 2019 3.56pm)

There are numerous other examples.

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Sigh.

Ok, to be recorded as a 'hate crime' you don't need the 'hate crime' proven....So for one, the number of 'hate crimes' you have just referred to doesn't have the legitimacy you seem to give it.

Secondly, there is a significant difference between the 'hate' crime of verbally upsetting someone and violently physically attacking someone......Yet they are recorded the same way as one statistic.

Now, lets look at your claim that only 0.3 are fabricated (I'm fine with the different geographical nature of the stats because this is just a general point) The crimes that were investigated would take significant Police resources in investigating. So we can straight away ignore the majority of recorded 'hate crime' which is of an 'insult' or perception nature because they don't get an investigation. How many of those are fabricated? Or even are bad enough to really qualify? We don't know.

As only serious 'hate crime' is investigated to discover the culprit...How often do they reach a conclusion where they just don't know? Again, that's also unknown. We can safely say that the true stats on how many are fabricated isn't know.

However, we can say that hoax hate crimes are common because we have databases of these attacks kept by some forces and that you can see here.

You want to argue over the word, 'often' which to me is pedantic because it depends upon how you take the context of 'often'. Regardless when we measure the metric we find that the measurement isn't really knowable.

What we can definitely say is that we know that hoax hate crimes are a category of crime. It seems...at least to some.... to be more common than it once was.

Edited by Stirlingsays (20 Feb 2019 6.28pm)

Right, so we've gone from, (in reference to a single hoax incident): "this underlines how much hate crime is often actually fabricated" which belittles it, implies it isn't a big deal and that loads of people are actually just making it up, to "what we do know is hoax hate crimes are a category of crime". Sterling, I 100% agree with you, they are a category of crime, it does exist and it's a despicable crime as it takes away from the very real hate crimes that happen.

Edited by IMpalace (20 Feb 2019 7.52pm)

If I was attacked in the street, it's a crime.

If I was attacked in the street as gay or black man, it's a hate crime.

hmmmmm!