fakehatecrimes.org
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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 recommended.


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title
Hate fliers inflame mayoral race in New Orleans

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New York Times

authors
Ronald Smothers

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summary
Anti Defamation League National Commission member and candidate for New Orleans mayor Donald Mintz was accused of creating a distributing racist and anti-Semitic flyers to raise sympathy. "An investigation by the New Orleans Human Relations Committee issued a preliminary report concluding that at least two of the fliers 'originated in the Mintz campaign'".

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date published
1994-02-27