{"id":11684,"date":"2019-02-25T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T23:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11684"},"modified":"2019-02-25T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T23:12:16","slug":"yes-this-is-america-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/yes-this-is-america-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, \u2018This Is America, 2019\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been so far about three general reactions to the concocted Jussie Smollett psychodrama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One, and the most common, has been apprehension that Smollett\u2019s lies will discredit future real incidents of hate crimes against gays and minorities. This could be a legitimate concern, given the tensions within a multiracial society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, in fact, there is&nbsp;<em>no&nbsp;<\/em>evidence in the past that false reports (some lists of such fake hate crimes put the number at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/02\/22\/jussie-smollett-empire-attack-fired-cut-video-chicago-fox-column\/2950146002\/\">around 400<\/a>) have had such an effect\u2014either on spiking real hate crimes, suppressing reporting, discouraging police investigations, or preventing even more race-crime hoaxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Heather Mac Donald has recently once again&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/jussie-smollett-bigotry\">noted<\/a>, the 2017 upswing in reported hate crimes from the prior year may well be largely because an additional 1,000 police agencies were for the first time reporting such crimes. Mac Donald also notes that a \u201chate crime\u201d\u2014a micro percentage of reported violent crime\u2014is narrowly defined&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>to include general interracial violent victimization, a category in which African-Americans on average commit 85 percent of such crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/02\/24\/yes-this-is-america-2019\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There have been so far about three general reactions to the concocted Jussie Smollett psychodrama. One, and the most common, has been apprehension that Smollett\u2019s lies will discredit future real incidents of hate crimes against gays and minorities. This could be a legitimate concern, given the tensions within a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[247,383,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-32s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9748,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/hate-crime-legislation-is-a-good-idea-that-went-bad\/","url_meta":{"origin":11684,"position":0},"title":"Hate-Crime Legislation Is a Good Idea That Went Bad","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/National Review The labeling of hate crimes has become so politicized and ill-defined that the entire concept is unworkable. 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