Charlie Rogers, a Lincoln, Nebraska lesbian, has been charged with falsely reporting an assault in an attempt to win sympathy for lesbians and stir up anger and hatred against straight men. Rogers said three men stormed into her house, tied her up and carved slurs on her body, including the word “dyke.”
Following the “attack,” her friends in the lesbian community set up a site for donations, and she made courageous, defiant statements against the mysterious assailants.
Soon, her story began to fall apart, and it emerged that she had purchased the equipment she was bound with herself, shortly after vowing to become a “catalyst” on her Facebook page.
Medical examiners discovered that her wounds were superficial, carefully avoided sensitive areas and all within reach of her hands.
Usually, in these cases, people feel “sorry” for someone who would do such a thing. However, they are forgetting that when people make up hate crimes, they are trying to attack the very group they accuse of being hateful. It is an aggressive act, and sadly quite common. In fact, police are trained to be suspicious of all reported hate crimes, because so many of them are fake.
Accusing people of being “hateful” has become the weapon du jour in the US. Some people truly are, but it appears that in many cases, those who make the accusation are just as likely to be hateful themselves. For example, those who liberally use the term “misogynist” are far more likely than others to hate men.
If hate crime legislation is to be fair, it should include enhanced sentences for those who fake hate crimes, because they are committing such crimes themselves.
