Hoaxes, lies, deceptions and false claims exist. Of course they do. They exist because members of marginalized communities are people, too.
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Replying to @zeynep
We don't need every last member of a marginalized or victimized community to be angels to stand up against wrongs.
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"Believe victims" means approach people in good faith, and consider what they may have just been through. Proceed, but with that good faith.
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Using hoaxes to discredit all people is EXACTLY the issue—it's dehumanizing to treat a member of a group as stand in for every other member.
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People are ... complex. Attention is complex, with complex effects. We *can* think about structural and broad patterns, and not forget this.
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Look, there are mothers who poison their own children to get attention as doting mothers. It's super super rare. But it exists. Humans...
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So yes, you can have a wave of hate crimes *and* have some opportunists who fake one for attention. This is .. how it almost always works.
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