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Praise for HATE CRIME HOAX “Reilly’s energetic exposition of the hate crime hoax phenomenon indicts not just the perpetrators but the entire ideological complex devoted to propagating the lie that America is an incorrigibly racist, sexist, bigoted country. Reilly pulls no punches in his depiction of the hate crime inventors and the broader network of liberal college administrators and journalists who inadvertently egg them on, all to serve the narrative that virtually every American town, college, or white community is saturated in racial and ethnic hatred. This is a valuable book about an alarming new factor in American life, written with wisdom and courage.” —Scott McConnell, founding editor of The American Conservative “Less than 1 percent of all calls for service from law enforcement require the use of any type of force. This means that the use of lethal force is a percentage of a percentage—and that there is no epidemic of police shootings. There is only a picture painted by a media that want the public to believe this to be something of major concern and out of control. Dr. Wilfred Reilly does us all a favor by illustrating the large number of misreported, misrepresented, and misunderstood incidents in our national media. In Hoax, Dr. Reilly dives into a number of well-known incidents that received massive media attention only to turn out to be false or completely misrepresented. Hoax is a good read for anyone interested in political science, criminal justice, and other social and behavioral sciences. Dr. Reilly touches on a subject familiar to myself and many readers: the so-called epidemic of police officers shooting persons of color. Through his examination, Dr. Reilly gives a number of examples related to recent events on this subject and helps to illustrate the realities of this controversial topic. Hoax is a great starting place to begin understanding these highly charged incidents.” —Johnathon Sharp, assistant professor of psychology at Kentucky State University and former sheriff's deputy “Hoax is not simply a collection of data and testimony concerning faux hate crime, it speaks on a range of issues touching on the reality of leftist cultural bias at the heart of American politics. Hoax separates fact from fiction and drags many ugly things we often simply refuse to believe in squirming into the light. Dr. Reilly’s logic and numbers-driven style of approaching a highly complex issue is incredibly valuable in our turbulent times. It is a refreshing change of pace from the hysterics and madness of the corporate news media. If you are looking to refine your worldview with reason and facts instead of reflexive empathy, there can be no better tool for honing those instincts than Hoax. I recommend this book for anyone who is serious about politics and social science.” —Jimmy Cobb, lead singer of The Snake Oil Salesmen “Wilfred Reilly’s book is a home run. After reading a few pages, it is genuinely hard to put it down. Reilly makes many points that are obvious, but taboo and rarely made. Most notably, he says that ‘hate crimes’ are rare —the exception and not the norm—and that many of those which are alleged are hoaxes. The mainstream media paint the picture that the U.S.A. is a racist hell-hole on the brink of civil war, but Reilly’s research refutes this. The taboo topics Dr. Reilly discusses range from ‘white privilege’ to affirmative action. He discusses the bizarre claims of #BlackLivesMatter in some detail: the group actually says that only (1) immediate reparations for slavery and (2) the opening of all of our international borders can compensate minorities for the harms currently being done to them in the U.S.A. Black Lives Matter activists have demonstrated, with some justification, after one of their own has been shot, but they have also engaged in complete insanity. Reilly does not deny that real bigotry exists, but he points out where it does not. Both tasks are critical.” —Darry Pinto, weapons sergeant (ret.), United States Special Forces “Using hard facts and a bit of witty humor, Hoax is able to provide a long overdue and much needed view of the realities of the hate crimes this country has been trying to overcome for decades. Hoax held my attention while opening my eyes to an epidemic of falsely reported hate crimes in the U.S.A. Dr. Reilly does a great job of dispelling the myth that we are a country of racists and bigots, all the while acknowledging that these behaviors do, to some degree, still exist. He doesn’t diminish or take away from the victims of real hatred or turn a blind eye to the country’s shortcomings when dealing with race and diversity. Hoax puts the current state of race relations and the idea of a forthcoming race war into a well thought-out, well researched perspective. Recounting in depth a number of falsely reported hate crimes, Dr. Reilly does a great job (albeit leaning slightly right) of dissecting each hoax and pointing out the disconcerting similarities in the way these instances are handled by society and the mainstream media. It is a well written, insightful read that will keep you smiling for the duration.” —Tara Greaves, personnel specialist, Carmel, Indiana, police department “Will Reilly follows in the footsteps of Thomas Sowell with this iconoclastic, well-reasoned, and powerfully argued exposé of fabricated hate crimes. Hoax covers one of the most under-reported stories in America: the fabrication of hate crimes and the credulous role the media plays in promoting them. Will Reilly is a fresh new voice on race relations in America. By any measure, the United States is a less hate-filled nation than in the past. Reilly reminds us how far America has come in overcoming hatred and how the media perpetuates the pernicious myth that hate still rules the nation. With this blockbuster book, Will Reilly skewers the smelly little orthodoxies of our time: the blind acceptance of purported hate crimes as real (often they are not), the refusal to discuss the taboo of black-on-white crime, and the simplistic farce of “white privilege” as determining the success or failure of individuals.” —Jonathan Bean, author of Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader, Beyond the Broker State, and Big Government and Affirmative Action CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Lancing a Boil CHAPTER TWO A Conflict of Visions: The “Continuing Oppression” Narrative versus Reality CHAPTER THREE Big Fake on Campus: Fake Hate Crimes in American Academia CHAPTER FOUR The Klan Springs Eternal! Hoax Hate Group Attacks and the Real Crimes They Cover Up CHAPTER FIVE The Trump Hate Crimes: Donald Trump’s Election and the Resulting Wave of Hoaxes CHAPTER SIX Fake Religious, Anti-LGBT, and Gender Bias Incidents CHAPTER SEVEN Throwing Fuel on the Fire: Media Complicity with Hate Crime Hoaxes CHAPTER EIGHT White Hot: Caucasian Hate Hoaxers CHAPTER NINE Solution Sets: How to Deal with the Epidemic of Hoax Hate Crimes ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR NOTES INDEX To my beloved mother, Jean Marie Ward, who helped inspire this work both before and after her death, and no doubt is reading it somewhere. Also, to my Snoo, my love and companion F. Jane Lingle; to the always striving “Thorobred” students of Kentucky State University, whose quest for the American Dream helps inspire my positive view of American diversity; to my twin hometowns of Chicago and Aurora, Illinois; and finally to the scholar Thomas Sowell, who inspired me to look logically rather than emotionally at questions of race, class, and success. Mama, I made it. East Aurora, I made it!! INTRODUCTION with Notes on Methodology Authors of books that lean right are often accused of “hating” someone, or everyone. To the contrary! I am a proud Black man, and this book is both a pro-American and a profoundly pro-Black work of social science. I write it with the intention of lancing a boil. One major issue poisoning relations between whites and people of color (POC) in America today, and to a lesser extent relations between the two sexes and our nation’s social classes, is an ongoing epidemic of patently false claims of oppression. Making outrageous claims of oppression—“Baseball is racist”; “The math SAT is culturally biased!”—is arguably the main thing the modern activist Left does, and the backlash against such patently absurd contentions is largely responsible for the rise of the even more god-awful alt-right, which is a sort of twisted doppelganger of the SJW identity politics movement for white dudes glued to computer screens in their parents’ basements. Bigotry does exist. But that fact is no justification for false claims of oppressive violence, which are rife: complete hoaxes make up a sizable percentage of all widely reported hate crimes.1 And false claims only undermine belief in actual hate crimes. Crying Wolf! didn’t make people more likely to believe the boy. In fact, fake hate crimes give aid and comfort to the small minority of real racists who still blight America’s national political discourse. They also give a big push in the wrong direction to the much larger number of white Americans—including Obama voters who switched their votes between 2008 and 2016 and helped elect Donald Trump—who are understandably concerned about identity politics, crime, and their own children’s prospects in a country where schools teach that all white people are oppressors. Although he deserves no blame or praise for its contents, my inspiration for writing this book is a sociologist named Barry Glassner, whose 1990s classic The Culture of Fear is perhaps the most important book I have ever read. Glassner demonstrates in painstaking detail that Americans are terrified of false threats that are not, in fact, going to kill us—and explains why. Discussing the frequent American epidemics of panic over risks such as airplane crashes and child kidnapping, Glassner pulls up hard data. As he points out, only a few hundred children nationwide are kidnapped each year, and flying in a plane is more than ten times safer than driving. We worry about these extremely rare dangers, shark attacks and the like, because people who profit from such fears—executives at broadcast TV networks and the makers of pharmaceutical drugs who advertise on them—put a great deal of effort into keeping us afraid. Though challenged by both liberal activists and right-wing academics, Glassner’s main theses stood the test of time, and his bestseller remains relevant today.2 I am attempting to do for race relations what Glassner did for consumer advocacy: use hard data to penetrate an intentionally created fog of exaggerations and lies and expose a surprisingly positive reality. Many Americans today, especially on the activist left, seem to believe that the United States is a racist hell-hole on the brink of civil war. In the mainstream media we hear almost constant talk about scary new forms of racism: “white privilege,” “cultural appropriation,” and “subtle bigotry.” The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement argues that a near-genocide is underway in 2019 America, including police and vigilante murders of “tens of thousands” of Black men annually. The platform of The Movement for Black Lives, one of the founding documents of Black Lives Matter, claims that immediate reparations for slavery and the opening of America’s borders are the only ways that minorities can be compensated for the harms currently being done to us.3 In reaction, the equally absurd alt-right claims that a “white genocide” is underway: whites are being murdered in job lots by people of color, who are also engaged in a well-organized attempt to breed whites out of existence. Some of the most potent pieces of evidence cited in support of these theories, especially by the Left but also to an increasing extent by the dissident Right, are ghastly examples of hate crime. Who can forget the torn hijab on the woman allegedly attacked by a mob of Trump supporters days after the 2016 election? Or the burnt Black church desecrated with the spray-painted words “Vote TRUMP”? Or the multiple death threats delivered to terrified students of color at Kean College?