There Have Been Over 100 Hate Crime Hoaxes In The Past Decade

There Have Been Over 100 Hate Crime Hoaxes In The Past Decade, by Milo Yiannopoulos.

Victimhood is profitable. On the internet, it can get you thousands of dollars in crowdfunding donations. In the media, it can win you national prominence and a cooing audience of credulous sycophants. On campus, it can get you attention and plaudits from fellow grievance-mongers.

Given the large incentives, presumably there were a lot of hate crime hoaxes over, say, the last decade:

We found over a hundred, spread across race, gender, sexuality and religion.

Perhaps thanks to the effect of social media and citizen-led sleuthing, reports of hate-crime hoaxes undergo a massive surge in the years after 2011. 2015 seems to have been a high point — our search found over 20 incidents in that year alone.

Then again, we’re only a quarter of the way through 2016. There have already been four major hate crime hoaxes this year.

The economics of bigotry:

As  British journalist Douglas Murray likes to say, the Left has a supply-and-demand problem with bigotry. There simply isn’t enough of it to go around, so reporters have to go “rape shopping” like Sabrina Erdely did for Rolling Stone, or they have to enlarge the definitions of “racism” and “homophobia” to include minuscule perceived infractions, called “microaggressions.” …

Despite the scaremongering, bigotry in western nations is in terminal decline. Soon, only the hoaxes will remain.

The article then lists, with links, the 100 hate crime hoaxes they discovered.