As LBJ and others have pointed out - If you’re denying, you’re losing.
Fake hate crimes are normal; it’s the real ones that are rare.
Fake hate crimes are not pranks. They are a serious problem for a fair and just society society.
If we had any representation in congress, there would be a bill pending to make staging a hate crime a very serious federal offense. Instead, republican legislators sit on their fat butts, collect big donor money, and let us common folk get rolled on a daily basis.
Change “fake hate” to “fake news” and then we can change “rare” to “almost certain”.
The prime diff between prostitution and journalism is that prostitutes have more respect.
Right after the election last year, an “Asian” woman in Minneapolis reported that she had been harassed and then attacked by four Trump supporting “white men” on the Washington Ave bridge by the University. She went on to claim that she had fought them off with her mastery of martial arts. Naturally, that area has several video cameras, and she is seen walking the entire length of the bridge without any such incident.
That is just one of dozens of fake “hate crimes” reported in Minnesota over the years.
Anybody hear about a black woman at IHOP who received a receipt with N*** written on it? IHOP fired the woman who supposedly wrote it: a black woman.
What did the reporter do? When he told Rachel Maddow?