fakehatecrimes.org

fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the usa



The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are also recommended.

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256. Students had been invited to express their feelings about the election by writing them on Post-it no... 2016-11-20 Madison WI

title
Pro-Trump message investigated as hate crime

name
Minding the Campus

authors
Hans Bader

url
http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2016/11/pro-trump-message-investigted-as-hate-crime-on-this-campus/

summary
At Edgewood College in Wisconsin, administrators are investigating a message telling the losers in the recent presidential election to "suck it up, pussies" as a hate crime. It's actually protected speech.

date read
2016-11-27

date published
2016-11-27


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