author of the book the rise of victimhood culture. thanks for coming on. thanks for having me. tucker: t are you surprised by this? it seems that our society has created pretty strong incentive to create fake hate crimes. i am not surprised by it. i have been interested in hate crime hoaxes for a long time now. and i have been following them. it is not of course that hate crimes, they are a problem. but it is interesting that so many of the cases that get public attention and media attention do turn out to be hoaxes. and i first started seeing these things mainly on college campuses. now with the jussie smollett case, that turns out to be with the police are alleging, this will be the most famous hate crime hoaxes, and obviously, not on a college campus. so it t seems that some of the
welcome back to reliable sources. as the strange saga of the jussie smollett case continues one of the biggest criticisms we hear is against the media. and we heard it from the chicago police department loud and clear. you all gave this more attention specifically than we do. this has been a heated national conversation. so let s lay out some facts. first, there were 7,175 hate crime incidents in 2017 according to the department of justice. that s a 17% increase over the previous year. not only that the number of hate groups in the u.s. has increased 30% over the past four years. the hate crime hoaxes do occur, but they are very rare if possibly on the rise. according to the director at c state university in san bernardino there have been at least 49 hate crime reports between 2016 and 2018. but often these cases are high
she tweeted out a statement friday. nowhere did she apologize for jumping on the bandwagon and call this a lynching. this is a person who thinks she should be the next president of the united states? jesse: she was a prosecutor. so she should know what to look for when people are perpetrating fraudulent acts. dr. gorka, got to run. listen to dr. gorka s radio show. you won t be disappointed. up next, an expert in hate crime hoaxes. he has a huge list, you are not going to believe what he s got. there s little rest for a single dad,
nobody would say this is maga country or trump rules. jesse: these things don t come out of the mouths of trump supporters. i have dozens and dozens of swastikas being painted. people writing the n word all over things. and in case after case after case, these people are perpetrating hoaxes and these are not trump supporters doing it. we are not saying hate crimes don t exist, they do and they are horrific and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. but hate crimes also need to be prosecuted. in your opinion, you have studied this and seen this. psychologically why do people commit hate crime hoaxes? i have not studied this academically. it s my view because i was in university not to go long ago and the prevailing ethos and
liars. nobody would say this is maga country or trump rules. jesse: these things don t come out of the mouths of trump supporters. i have dozens and dozens of swastikas being painted. people writing the n word all over things. and in case after case after case, these people are perpetrating hoaxes and these are not trump supporters doing it. we are not saying hate crimes don t exist, they do and they are horrific and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. but hate crimes also need to be prosecuted. in your opinion, you have studied this and seen this. psychologically why do people commit hate crime hoaxes? i have not studied this academically. it s my view because i was in university not to go long ago and the prevailing ethos and