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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354. Inside the suspicious rise of gay hate crimes in Portland - In the past, as documented on this site... 2019-02-01 Portland Oregon

title
Inside the suspicious rise of gay hate crimes in Portland

name
New York Post

authors
Andy Ngo

url
https://archive.is/a9hOb

summary
Last month, Sophia Gabrielle Stanford was at the center of a fundraising campaign. The GoFundMe page described the trans activist as a victim of a “brutal and aggressively blatant hate crime” in which assailants had beaten her unconscious with a bat in southeast Portland. The campaign and shocking story went viral. However, the police reports raise questions about what happened that night. Etc., etc..

date read
2019-03-30

date published
2019-03-30


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