It Is Taboo to Say This, But It Must Be Said: The Novel Theories of Subtle But Pervasive Racial Prejudice—“White Privilege,” “Cultural Appropriation,” and so forth—Are Complete Nonsense

I am attempting to do for race relations what Glassner did for consumer advocacy: use hard data to penetrate an intentionally created fog of exaggerations and lies and expose a surprisingly positive reality. Many Americans today, especially on the activist left, seem to believe that the United States is a racist hell-hole on the brink of civil war. In the mainstream media we hear almost constant talk about scary new forms of racism: “white privilege,” “cultural appropriation,” and “subtle bigotry.” The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement argues that a near-genocide is underway in 2019 America, including police and vigilante murders of “tens of thousands” of Black men annually. The platform of The Movement for Black Lives, one of the founding documents of Black Lives Matter, claims that immediate reparations for slavery and the opening of America’s borders are the only ways that minorities can be compensated for the harms currently being done to us. . . .

It is taboo to say this, but it must be said: The novel theories of subtle but pervasive racial prejudice—“white privilege,” “cultural appropriation,” and so forth—are complete nonsense. And many of the hate crimes cited in support of those theories never happened. . . .

You will read about almost one hundred fake hate crimes in this book. It is probable that most widely reported recent hate crimes have been hoaxes.

--Wilfred Reilly, introduction to Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left Is Selling a Fake Race War (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2019), e-book.