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Quillette Podcast 44 – Professor Wilfred Reilly on Hate Crime Hoaxes

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Quillette Podcast 44 – Professor Wilfred Reilly on Hate Crime Hoaxes
Jussie Smollett and Wilfred Reilly.

Toby Young talks to Wilfred Reilly, an assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State University, about his new book documenting the prevalence of hate crime hoaxes such as that of Jussie Smollet, and what that tells us about contemporary American society. Professor Reilly recently wrote an article about hate crime hoaxes for Quillette entitled The Hate-Crime Epidemic That Never Was: Seattle Case Study.

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