[Lemmy]

Thanos Thanos:

That overall number should be three to four times hire but they don't count incidents when a white gets beaten or murdered by a minority as a hate crime.

Yes they do, when the reason they were beaten was racial.

[Thanos]

Five blacks broke into a 90 year old white woman's house several month back, beat her to a pulp, poured gasoline on her, and set her on fire. I think the final argument was that it was because of slavery or Jim Crow or something like that.

[Lemmy]

"Of the 5,814 known offenders, 24.3 percent were black or African American", though it doesn't specify whether slavery or Jim Crow was anyone's particular motivation.

[Thanos]

National news must not have had the time to cover any of those stories. Needed all the air time instead for some moron saying something retarded outside a Trump rally.

[N_Fiddledog]

In any case so what?

The way I read 2Cdo's statement "far too many times" you'll be hearing some group of incidents where somebody is claiming victimhood as part of an offended group but if you're allowed to hear the full story it turns out the victim was the victimizer. It was a hoax. Within that group of incidents this hate-hoax conclusion can appear to be the usual case.

For example for awhile we were hearing about all these incidents of homophobic, racist, sexist, or sexual attacks on campuses. They almost always seemed to turn out to be hoaxes.

This CBC story in Edmonton of an "Islamophobic" flavored "acid" attack is actually part of a grouping.

I'd call it CBC's Edmonton-racist-attack group of claims where we never get to hear the full story.

Recently there have been 3 incidents where CBC is putting the idea in people's heads that Edmontonians are being attacked by racists. There was the one where the activist was riding around Edmonton filming for racist attacks and there was video of him standing on a street corner screaming at somebody he was having a 'who owns the road' bicycle/car argument. He was accusing somebody of calling him "Islamophobic" names, or something like that. To the CBC that was a hate crime, top news story. They made sure we heard about it.

Then this actor guy who never seemed to work much was claiming to be filming some sort of hate crime documentary on the streets of Edmonton and in what looked like cheap cam video he was walking towards a car where the passenger was calling him a racist name. The CBC was all over that one too. We never heard the full story which was odd, because how many times do you see a perp's face in full view on camera and he can't be tracked down. Or perhaps the CBC wasn't interested in the rest of the story.

Same with this one. The CBC is making sure we hear the name Ahmed a lot in their article and they make sure we hear a lot about his sad time in Syria, but what proof is there this was necessarily something more than, say some young punk who found some paint remover and decided to pour it on a car to see what would happen. The CBC says "acid" though and rubs our face in the fact Ahmed is a refugee. Gee, I wonder what they want us to think.

So here's the thing. In that group we never did actually hear the whole story, mostly because the CBC didn't do their job and follow up, but "far too often" these types of stories do turn out to be hoaxes, so we can rely on all the Islamophobe hate hoax stories where we did hear the conclusion and get the feeling of "usually a hoax" here just as easily as the indoctrinated are hearing the bogus term "Islamophobia" without CBC actually saying it.