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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Saller and Martinez speak on Israel-Gaza at Faculty Senate meeting https://archive.ph/2tuT8 online article 2023-11-03
Conservative white professor falsely accused of harassing black student in viral video https://www.thecollegefix.com/conservative-white-pr... online article 2023-10-19
VA State U's claim of racial slurs unfounded https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/g... online article 2023-10-04
Hasan Minhaj admits to making up stories of racial discrimination https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12525763/H... online article 2023-09-16
New York cop accused colleagues of menacing her with text messages, arrested for sending them herself https://nypost.com/2023/07/02/new-york-police-offic... online article 2023-07-02
School suspends black students for anti-black racism: 'This is the third time we’ve had perpetrators of a racially motivated incident identified as African-Americans' https://www.theblaze.com/news/school-suspends-black... online article 2023-03-20
LGBTQ slurs found at MIT done by students protesting school’s new pro-free speech efforts https://www.thecollegefix.com/lgbtq-slurs-found-at-... online article 2023-03-03
Hate crime hoax: Idaho police say 'White Power' graffiti on high school created by 'rival' Hispanic gangs https://www.foxnews.com/us/hate-crime-hoax-idaho-po... online article 2023-01-24
Here are 14 times campus hate crimes turned out to be hoaxes in 2022 https://www.thecollegefix.com/here-are-14-times-hat... online article 2022-12-19
Juvenile bomb-threat caller never posed credible danger to HBCUs, but FBI refused to say so until after midterms https://www.thecollegefix.com/juvenile-bomb-threat-... online article 2022-12-01
Narrative Busted: Man Throwing Bricks At NYC Gay Bar Was Actually A Gay Man Enacting ‘Revenge,’ Police Say https://www.dailywire.com/news/narrative-busted-man... online article 2022-11-25
Vegan food truck owner charged with arson and insurance fraud https://www.kusi.com/vegan-food-truck-owner-charged... online article 2022-11-16
Reward Offered After Noose Found at Obama Center in Chicago https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/13/rewar... online article 2022-11-13
Ashland city leaders respond to reports of death threats against Oregon Shakespeare Festival director https://www.opb.org/article/2022/10/28/ashland-city... online article 2022-10-29
Voter-suppression claim collapses after black man arrested for burning churches https://www.wnd.com/2022/11/vote-suppression-claim-... online article 2022-11-11
Man believed to have vandalized Rainbow Crosswalk arrested after barricade https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2022/08/19/vandal-... online article 2022-08-19
Black Teen Makes White Power Death Threat https://moonbattery.com/black-teen-makes-white-powe... online article 2022-10-19
Northeastern Lab Manager Charged With Staging Zuckerberg-Inspired Explosion https://www.thedailybeast.com/northeastern-universi... online article 2022-10-04
Exclusive: Racist Comments at BYU Volleyball Game Never Happened, Sources Suggest https://www.byucougarchronicle.org/post/exclusive-r... online article 2022-08-30
Quillette Podcast #186: Frances Widdowson on the Questions Canadians Aren’t Supposed to Ask About Unmarked Graves https://quillette.com/2022/04/13/frances-widdowson-... online article 2022-04-13
Portland journalist who reported on the 'alt- right' for liberal papers arrested over attacks on synagogues, mosque https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-journalist-w... online article 2022-05-08
U California pushes ethnic studies mandate that Newsom called 'offensive' against Jews https://campusreform.org/article?id=19514 online article 2022-05-07
Police dispute claim of ‘racially motivated’ vandalism against black Michigan student https://www.thecollegefix.com/police-dispute-claim-... online article 2022-04-27
Bomb Threats Against HBCUs — Another Hoax? https://rkeefe57.wordpress.com/2022/03/19/bomb-thre... online article 2022-04-15
Two black girls wrote ‘All [n-words] should die’ graffiti in latest hate-crime hoax https://www.thecollegefix.com/two-black-girls-wrote... online article 2022-03-30
BLM, Antifa activists convicted of arson after attempting to frame Proud Boys for their own crimes https://thepostmillennial.com/blm-antifa-activists-... online article 2022-03-04
Russian news network highlights College Fix hate crime hoax reporting https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/russia... movie or documentary 2022-02-14
Student admits to racist graffiti at Sacramento school: ‘A prank that went sideways’ https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article258524378.... online article 2022-02-18
District Identifies Person Responsible For Racist Graffiti Found At McClatchy High https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2022/02/17/person-i... online article 2022-02-17
Hoax? Racial slur victim stops talking, cops close investigation https://www.thecollegefix.com/hoax-racial-slur-vict... online article 2022-02-16

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