Hoax Choked

What’s with the cartoon picture of the tied up innocent black man surrounded by white mob with the vicious dog ready to attack?!!!

Bernie’s running again. Is America ready to feel the Bern 2.0?

Take them for everything they’ve got:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-covington-suit/teen-in-lincoln-memorial-protest-sues-washington-post-for-250-million-idUSKCN1Q82SW

Speaking of Shaggy:
https://georgetownvoice.com/2019/02/15/the-meme-files-powerful-shaggy/

What happens in the dungeon, doesn’t stay in the dungeon:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/7967413/mp-cut-bondage-session-sex-dungeon/

False reports of hate crimes are exceedingly rare. Between 2016 and 2018, there were approximately two dozen false reports, either confirmed or suspected, according to figures compiled by the Center on Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. That’s a fraction of the several thousand hate crimes documented by the federal government over the same period.

The day before the president tweeted at Smollett, the Southern Poverty Law Center released its annual Year in Hate report, a snapshot of the long-term trends of hate crimes in America. The report found that, for the fourth year in a row, the number of hate groups in the United States grew in 2018. The SPLC counted 1,020 of them, the most the organization has seen since it began keeping track in 1999.

The number of hate groups it counted represents a 30 percent increase from 2014; a rise, the watchdog notes, that coincides with Trump’s ascent to the national stage. “The trend is unmistakable,” says Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s intelligence project, in a video released with the report. “Trump has energized the radical right by fanning the flames of racial resentment over immigration and the country’s changing demographics.”

SPLC notes that white nationalist groups have grown 50 percent in the last year alone; there are now 148 chapters scattered around the country. Efforts to spread their message increased at the same time. There were 746 “flyering” incidents on campuses around the country this year, compared to 263 reported last year. The death toll from hate attacks more than doubled over the last year: 40 people were killed by white supremacists in North America, compared to 17 in 2017.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jussie-smollett-hate-crimes-rise-united-states-796977/

False reporting should definitely be a serious offence though, totally agree.

Another reason why Smollett must be destroyed for this.

Just as well he didn’t take out a full page advert in four city newspapers calling for them to be executed, that might really have created divisiveness.

Roger Stone has been banned from shooting his big mouth off about his case:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6729819/Roger-Stone-beg-bail-posting-image-rifle-crosshairs.html

North Carolina gets a do-over:
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/it-all-comes-down-to-relationships-harris-explains-why-he-chose-dowless-despite-warnings/923777033

Also it snowed in L.A. (not the kind of snow they’re used to). I guess this means the Climate Change Apocalypse is now upon us.

The day before the president tweeted at Smollett, the Southern Poverty Law Center released its annual Year in Hate report

Oh man. Sometimes you’re a riot, CM. Trying to support a position with the SPLC. You might as well say, “Hey guys, ignore everything after this…”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty-law-center-has-lost-all-credibility/2018/06/21/22ab7d60-756d-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.eb10685afa0f

Well done.

Well done.

Ah ok, NONE of those events actually happened then. All hoaxes. PHEW!

So according to the SPLC and their statistics, POC are much safer in white nationalist areas than say, Chicago.

Deaths spiked in Obama’s last year in Chicago – gangs increased etc. I guess that’s his fault?

Terrible deflection – you’re not putting your full heart into this CM. I’ve seen you do much better at derailing the topic at hand.

A different perspective:

Hate Crime Hoaxes are More Common than You Think

Real hate crimes happen, of course. We’re not arguing that all or even most alleged hate crimes are hoaxes. But the ones dominating the headlines in recent years have often been false or misleading, possibly because fake cases are better designed to push the buttons of drama and partisanship. Real hate crimes don’t necessarily have offenders who conveniently announce themselves to be members of your political outgroup, or display a stylized iconography of evil, like nooses and swastikas. The hoaxes, by contrast, often read like political-struggle fan fiction, with the hoaxers making themselves Mary Sues and their adversaries stock villains.