{"id":18253,"date":"2021-06-23T07:07:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18253"},"modified":"2021-06-23T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:45:10","slug":"overnight-news-if-we-cant-make-faking-a-hate-crime-criminal-can-we-at-least-make-it-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18253\/overnight-news-if-we-cant-make-faking-a-hate-crime-criminal-can-we-at-least-make-it-embarrassing\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: If we can\u2019t make faking a hate crime criminal, can we at least make it embarrassing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYou think you\u2019re a good negotiator, but I get paid in treats for stuff I was going to do,\u00a0anyway.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\u201cThey spray-painted all over our building \u2013 in our own incomprehensible jargon!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The quote is a joke, but, alas, the news story is not. If that’s not a fake hate crime, bill me for one edible hat. If instead it turns out to be a fund-raiser, try to cultivate some wisdom from your wishful thinking.<\/p>\n

I don’t care for hate crime laws, since they seek to police thought instead of action, and since, as here, they engender fake hate crimes \u2013 which should only be understood as actual<\/em> hate crimes against the fictionalized villains.<\/p>\n

Bah! The one thing we can count on, as every species of corruption proliferates, is that no one will call bullshit on any fake hate crime \u2013 since to do so would both undermine the thought police and spotlight how rare non-fake<\/em> hate crimes are. Get away from big cities and universities and there are none of either.<\/p>\n

The funny thing about these stunts is how invested people become in denying the obvious. Just that much could be cured with a betting site: If you insist the “hate crime” described in the story is not fake \u2013 bet against me. Your bet is your vote on the probity of the claimants, where mine is a vote for a statistically-demonstrable pattern of maliciously tendentious behavior. So, please: Bet against me.<\/p>\n

I love me them ‘Faye’ names, and FayeKate.com is available. If someone smarter than me builds it, I will come. I can’t imagine the payouts will be that great, betting the odds on 19-1 propositions, but the statistical reporting over time will be edifying: People actually do learn better, if there are consequences for being in error.<\/p>\n

Why are there so many fake hate crimes? Because, so far, it seems to be paying off. In this instance, the evil awful spray paint is held to be emblematic of ever-so-much worse hatred, the evidence for which, alas, is unavailable for inspection \u2013 but which, nevertheless, can be at least partially-palliated by PayPal. “Nothing happened, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou think you\u2019re a good negotiator, but I get paid in treats for stuff I was going to do,\u00a0anyway.\u201d\u201cThey spray-painted all over our building \u2013 in our own incomprehensible jargon!\u201d The quote is a joke, but, alas, the news story is not. If that’s not a fake hate crime, bill me for one edible hat. 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