What is fueling fake hate crimes across the U.S.?

[SVPete]

What is fueling fake hate crimes across the U.S.?
By Doug McKelway
Published April 20, 2017
FoxNews.com

WASHINGTON –  Last week, an Indian-owned store in Charlotte, N.C. was set afire, a rock thrown through the window and a racist note left behind. It read, in part: "We need to get rid of Muslims, Indians and all immigrants." It was signed, "White America."

Days later, police arrested a suspect. He was not a white supremacist, nor a Donald Trump supporter, nor Caucasian. He was an African-American man, 32-year-old Curtis Flournoy. Surveillance video showed him lighting the fire.

The FBI does not track fake hate or false flag crimes, making them nearly impossible to quantify. ...
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"The motivations are, first of all, they're usually trying to solve some personal problem. The way they try to solve it typically involves their seeking attention for themselves or their appearing to be the victim, because they want the benefits of the victim role," he said.

Exacerbating the prevalence of fake hate crimes – the victimology industry has found favor in contemporary society, especially  on college campuses, where safe spaces, micro-aggressions, and  the demonization of "dominant while male culture" has become common place.

A question on Fox News would dare ask. I'm glad the article author doesn't fall into the one-size-fits-all trap of offering just one explanation for a rather diverse phenomenon.

I'd offer a couple more. Some/many/most fake "Hate Crimes" whose "victims are Muslims are done for the purpose of labeling/libeling critics of real problems among Muslims as bigots. Another kind of fake "Hate Crime" has the purpose of slandering someone or some group - e.g. Trump supporters.

[Ptarmigan]

From the article.

The FBI does not track fake hate or false flag crimes, making them nearly impossible to quantify. But noted forensic psychiatrist, Park Dietz, an expert witness in one of the most infamous fake-hate crimes of modern times, the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, said they are common

A psychological undercurrent runs through most fake hate crimes, Dietz said.

"The motivations are, first of all, they're usually trying to solve some personal problem. The way they try to solve it typically involves their seeking attention for themselves or their appearing to be the victim, because they want the benefits of the victim role," he said.

Exacerbating the prevalence of fake hate crimes – the victimology industry has found favor in contemporary society, especially  on college campuses, where safe spaces, micro-aggressions, and  the demonization of "dominant while male culture" has become common place.

People who like to play victim.

[freedumb2003b]

From the article.
People who like to play victim.

Munchhausen's by proxy.

[Adam Wood]

It's hardly something new.  The Left has been faking hate crimes for ages.  Jena 6, anyone?  Duke Lacrosse?  Tawana Brawley?

Yes, there is the occasional right-wing fake hate crime (the girl who carved a W into her forehead immediately leaps to mind), but overwhelmingly, these hoaxes are committed by the Left.  And it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out why: the entire premise of Leftist thought is victimization. Everyone (other than white Christian males) is a "victim" of something, and if the Left can't find cases of actual victimization, they'll simply make something up.  Either they'll pick some sympathetic person and create a victimization of them (Tawana Brawley, Charlene Dill), or, more commonly (in my observation), they'll create some new and exciting way in which someone can be a victim ("environmental racism" or someone not getting a tip and that suddenly is because they are a lesbian or creating people who allegedly couldn't vote because of ID laws when literally not a single person has ever been wrongly denied a vote due to such laws).

Ultimately, it's part and parcel of Leftist dogma: any time something that a Leftist doesn't like happens, no matter whether real or imagined, it's the fault of some bogeyman who inevitably turns out to fit one or more bigoted Leftist stereotypes: white, rich, male, Christian, patriotic, etc.  And if that means manufacturing some sort of "controversy" to bring that "victimization" to life, then so be it: the ends justify the means, no matter who it hurts.  If it means destroying an entire sports team over some "crime" that never happened, then that's justified because they're rich and white.  If that means that some cop ultimately commits suicide at least largely in part because he was falsely accused of abducting and raping a Black girl, then it's OK because you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, and the pig probably had it coming anyway. If blaming all Republicans for the death of some young lady in Florida who was almost certainly actually murdered by her SEIU lobbyist "friend," it's worth the ink in Leftist media because it "highlights the cause," the murdered woman be damned, and the narrative is good, even if it's utterly and completely false.  The list goes on and on and on.  The Left excuses the dogmatic lying, because they believe that there is some "greater truth" in their lies.  "Fake but accurate" becomes something that is actually considered valid by these deluded fools.

[sneakypete]

What is fueling fake hate crimes across the U.S.?

Raw political opportunism.

[sneakypete]

"What is fueling fake hate crimes across the U.S.?"

That's easy. It's the desire to create anarchy,riots,and widespread civil and racial wars in the streets so the citizens start screaming the Constitution be suspended from the "emergergency" in order to restore order.

And "order" is what we will get. Oh,BOY will we get order!

[thundley4]

"What is fueling fake hate crimes across the U.S.?"

That's easy. It's the desire to create anarchy,riots,and widespread civil and racial wars in the streets so the citizens start screaming the Constitution be suspended from the "emergergency" in order to restore order.

And "order" is what we will get. Oh,BOY will we get order!

Once again the left is not thinking things through. Trump is president and he likely would remain in power until order was restored. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

I'd offer a couple more. Some/many/most fake "Hate Crimes" whose "victims are Muslims are done for the purpose of labeling/libeling critics of real problems among Muslims as bigots. Another kind of fake "Hate Crime" has the purpose of slandering someone or some group - e.g. Trump supporters.

There is a second-order effect, which is a mass media that thirsts for any sensational event that will embarrass the Trump administration (Or, in their worldview, anyone who supported it), and falls eagerly on any such stories whether they prove to be fake or not.

[Wineslob]

Fake but accurate:  the Dumbocrap way.

[SVPete]

There is a second-order effect, which is a mass media that thirsts for any sensational event that will embarrass the Trump administration (Or, in their worldview, anyone who supported it), and falls eagerly on any such stories whether they prove to be fake or not.

When there's Trump-bashing in prospect, MSM credulity is near total. They're almost as blinded by their Trump-Hatred as Crayzee Buggee Laydee or other DU Trump-Hating worthies.

[Ptarmigan]

It's hardly something new.  The Left has been faking hate crimes for ages.  Jena 6, anyone?  Duke Lacrosse?  Tawana Brawley?

Yes, there is the occasional right-wing fake hate crime (the girl who carved a W into her forehead immediately leaps to mind), but overwhelmingly, these hoaxes are committed by the Left.  And it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out why: the entire premise of Leftist thought is victimization. Everyone (other than white Christian males) is a "victim" of something, and if the Left can't find cases of actual victimization, they'll simply make something up.  Either they'll pick some sympathetic person and create a victimization of them (Tawana Brawley, Charlene Dill), or, more commonly (in my observation), they'll create some new and exciting way in which someone can be a victim ("environmental racism" or someone not getting a tip and that suddenly is because they are a lesbian or creating people who allegedly couldn't vote because of ID laws when literally not a single person has ever been wrongly denied a vote due to such laws).

Ultimately, it's part and parcel of Leftist dogma: any time something that a Leftist doesn't like happens, no matter whether real or imagined, it's the fault of some bogeyman who inevitably turns out to fit one or more bigoted Leftist stereotypes: white, rich, male, Christian, patriotic, etc.  And if that means manufacturing some sort of "controversy" to bring that "victimization" to life, then so be it: the ends justify the means, no matter who it hurts.  If it means destroying an entire sports team over some "crime" that never happened, then that's justified because they're rich and white.  If that means that some cop ultimately commits suicide at least largely in part because he was falsely accused of abducting and raping a Black girl, then it's OK because you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, and the pig probably had it coming anyway. If blaming all Republicans for the death of some young lady in Florida who was almost certainly actually murdered by her SEIU lobbyist "friend," it's worth the ink in Leftist media because it "highlights the cause," the murdered woman be damned, and the narrative is good, even if it's utterly and completely false.  The list goes on and on and on.  The Left excuses the dogmatic lying, because they believe that there is some "greater truth" in their lies.  "Fake but accurate" becomes something that is actually considered valid by these deluded fools.

Tawana Brawley made Al Sharpton infamous. I wonder if there were fake hate crimes before Tawana Brawley. I am sure there were. That is the first I know of.

There is Donald Sterling and the Los Angeles Clippers, who was kicked out from the NBA. His mistress, V. Stiviano, brought him down.