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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156. A gay man, Joseph Baken, injured himself doing a backflip outside a bar, then claimed he'd been targ... 2012-08-04 Missoula MT

title
Eleven Hate Crime Hoaxes

name
National Review

authors
Alec Torres

url
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/374096/eleven-hate-crime-hoaxes-alec-torres

summary
A list of fake crimes, some of them fake hate crimes

date read
2015-07-02

date published
2015-03-24


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