> the fact that the hoaxers are never punished has tempered me to believe that any hate crime that occurs is complete bullshit Not only that but it has also tempered my belief that hate hoaxes, slander, and defamation involving labels like "racist!', "white supremacist!", "nazi!" are mostly intended to justify violence and terrorism against people labelled. I've come to believe the labels being used are basically code for promoting inter-ethnic inter-religious violence and terrorism. They use them to justify and encourage unstable and anonymous individuals in mobs, or in proximity to those labelled, to commit killings, stabbings, beating, or terror attacks against people. That is what it is. Reverse-racism and labeling are violent incitement of terrorism. We should treat them the same as explicit death threats and threats of bodily harm.