This is a good time to discuss the history of hate crime hoaxes - Crying Wolf Book

We are starting to see the hate hoaxes pop up again. I’m sure everyone remembers when this started popping off hard in 2016 as well.

What many may not know is that this has a very long history, going back to the 1960s.

There’s a gentleman who is now deceased named Laird Wilcox who was an underworld journalist that studied primarily right wing extremist groups. He was a left wing person at heart, but in his studies uncovered that a massive proportion of hate crimes are hoaxes.

He wrote a book documenting all of these he could find in 1994 called Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America, which documents all the cases he could find in detail, and lists all the organizations (such as the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center) who are often behind coordinating them, or covering them up, and how the financial and publicity incentives make these so lucrative.

The book is extremely difficult to find these days for obvious reasons, but you can read a transcript of it online Here. I may bump this thread from time to time later and quote excerpts from it.

There’s a dude who did a podcast reading of the book too if anyone would be interested. Spotify

I guess the point of the thread is most here instinctively know most of these things are hoaxes, but I think few understand how deep it goes, and how long it’s been going on. Also this text provides many valuable tools if you happen to be arguing with leftists.