Hate Crime: Inventing A Crisis

So someone called you a bad word - get over it.

It's not the same as getting queerbashed or murdered.

Hoax Watch: Frat Boy Dim

Queerty.

Yet another 'anti-gay incident' that turned out to be a hoax!

Fagburn's losing track of them.

Even the gulliblicious Queerty's started getting sceptical when reporting them.

Indy Voices: Toxic

In the not-quite half-century since homosexual acts in private were legalised in most of the UK, we have seen a transformation in the fortunes of what we now call the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community...

And yet the number of homophobic attacks in England and Wales increased by almost a quarter last year, according to the Home Office. As the latest statistics demonstrate, 5,597 fellow citizens were assaulted for no other reason than their perceived sexual preferences.

Given the scale of under-reporting of such offences, especially of the more minor acts of verbal abuse, which can nonetheless be deeply hurtful and disturbing, the true scale of verbal and physical homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and other phobias is likely to be far higher. A total of 52,528 hate crimes were recorded, more than 80 per cent of which were motivated by racial prejudice...

The Independent Voices editorial.

Although the small print reads; 'The increase in recorded crime may be partly because more people are willing to come forward and complain', this is rather silly and alarmist.

But that's Indy Voices for you, a forum to revel in everyone's apparent victimhood.

Wicked: Hate Crime

Mirror.

Matthew Shepard: Rises Again

The Observer.

The book this is based on, The Story Of Matt, came out over a year ago.

The Guardian first wrote about it in October 2013.

Fagburn wrote about the problems many had with both the book and the Matthew Shepard 'hate crime' case here.

Many of the book's allegations have been circulating since right after his death - and were examined 15 years ago in a thoughtful, lengthy Vanity Fair article by Melanie Thernstrom, The Crucifixion Of Matthew Shephard.

And in a three-part series for Harper's in 1999 by JoAnn Wypijewski, A Boy's Life.

So why is The Observer publishing this article now?

And why is Bindel - valiant attacker of smears on the character of rape victims - so quick, and yet so slow, to give credence to those against the murdered Shepard, and on blaming the victim?

Hmm...

PS A reply to JB, The Story Of Matt as a work of fiction by Media Matters.

Update: Book of Matt author responds to Media Matters.

Hate Crime: Shocking Figures!

One in six gay or bisexual people – about 630,000 individuals [sic] – has been victim of a homophobic hate crime or incident in the past three years, according to a report to be published this week.

The alarming findings, based on a YouGov poll of 2,500 gay people and published in the Gay British Crime Survey 2013, will reinforce calls for the problem to be taken more seriously.

The poll, commissioned by gay rights charity Stonewall, found that two-thirds of victims of hate crime did not report the incident to anyone. More than three-quarters did not report it to the police. Fewer than one in 10 victims who did report hate crimes to the police said it led to a conviction. And half of victims who reported a hate crime to police said it was recorded with no further action taken....
The Observer.

I don't want to make light of this, but only one in ten of these people reported that they had been physically assaulted - that's about one in sixty over three years; 1.7%.
The last ONS crime statistics had 3% of all adults reporting being physically assaulted in the last year.

Whilst I'm certain many others here had their lives made a misery by homophobic cunts, but should we really be saying that someone calling you a "faggot" when you pass in the street is a "hate crime"?

That might explain why most people didn't bother reporting it to the police.

Some people are dickheads, tell them to fuck off.

Hate Crime: Should The Bible Be Banned?

"Three men have been found guilty of a gay hate crime after handing out leaflets calling for homosexual people to be given the death sentence..."

BBC News.

As before, the Bible calls for homosexual people to be given the death sentence.

So why single out these chaps? 

They give it out in hotels, ffs!