I want to welcome everyone back to part three of my reading of Crying Wolf, Hate Crime Hokes in America

by Laird Wilcox.

Just a reminder, Thomas and I are watching and reviewing movies.

If you go to Free Man Beyond the Wall.com, forward slash movies.

There are links to where you can get them. The latest movie we did was, what was the

latest movie we did? We did The Warriors 1979. Before that we did Mad Max, the original Mel Gibson

1979 so go check that out. All right, just gonna jump in and start going.

So we are up to chapter three about the prevalence of hoaxes and fabrications.

How common are hate crime hoaxes?

Civil rights Jewish and anti-racist groups stress the view that they are unusual and represent the misguided work of disturbed individuals.

On the other end of the spectrum is the view held by misguided work of disturbed individuals.

On the other end of the spectrum is the view held by genuine racist and anti-Semites

that a massive conspiracy exists to commit hoaxes and publicize them as bona fide hate crimes. The truth as might be expected lies

somewhere between these two extreme positions. The problem however has long

been recognized even by anti-racist authors and journalists,

although few of them have written about it.

Ben Haas, author of the anti-K-K-K-K-K, noted that, quote, it would be foolish of course to say that all violence attributed to the

clan was actually committed by clansmen or as a clan sponsored activity.

Therein lay the fallacy of the disguise.

Any gang of hoodlums that could scare up the requisite robes and hoods

could set out to have some sadistic fund or settle

personal grudges and the onus of their misbehavior would automatically fall on the

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