Should we punish fraudulent victims as vigorously as real criminals?--Douglas Murray
"Some years ago I was introduced to one notion of how to tackle dishonest and insincere accusations of racism.
The idea was not just that there should be a social cost to making a dishonest claim, but that the cost should equal that borne by somebody who is accurately and correctly identified as a racist.
Without such a disincentive, there is no reason (other than decency and honesty, which may sometimes be in short supply) for people not to level such accusations insincerely.
Since Monday night I have been wondering, amid much else, whether some similar aspiration could be encouraged regarding hate crimes.
...It couldn’t have been better for some people.
Nancy Pelosi and other leading Democrats tried to pin the hate crime on the White House.
In a frankly horrible piece of self-aggrandizing, sandpaper-voiced publicity-seeking, an actress called Ellen Page – with the complicity of Stephen Colbert – auditioned for chief weaponizer of the hate crime.
Perhaps just as Pelosi has had to use the delete button on her Twitter account, so Colbert and Page may now be wishing their attribution of blame against the Vice President hadn’t gone quite so viral. In her potty-mouthed way Page had insisted that, ‘There [bleep] isn’t a debate’ over whether what happened to Jessie Smollett was a hate crime or not..."
Except that there was, and is, a debate..."
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