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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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Hate crime hoaxes, like Jussie Smollett's alleged attack, are more common than you think
In writing a book about hate crime hoaxes, I found more than 400. Such frauds damage good race relations.

...Doing research for a book, Hate Crime Hoax, I was able to easily put together a data set of 409 confirmed hate hoaxes. An overlapping but substantially different list of 348 hoaxes exists at fakehatecrimes.org, and researcher Laird Wilcox put together another list of at least 300 in his still-contemporary book Crying Wolf. To put these numbers in context, a little over 7,000 hate crimes were reported by the FBI in 2017 and perhaps 8-10% of these are widely reported enough to catch the eye of a national researcher...

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