The media is reporting that there has been a spike in "hate crimes" since the election of Donald Trump. The majority of these claims are based upon a press release from the Southern poverty Law Center which lists 701 hate crimes against Muslims and other minority groups since election day. What's interesting is that a significant portion of those 701 reported crimes involve people using racial slurs that are uncorroborated and, if they happened, while reprehensible do not meet the definition of a crime.

What is also notable in its absence are the attacks upon Donald Trump supporters or people that someone believes is a Donald Trump supporter. If calling someone names that are vile and reprehensible is a crime then certainly anyone who has supported Donald Trump has experienced those crimes. Shouldn't they be reported as well? Not to mention the actual vandalism and property damage Trump supporters have suffered at the hands of the tolerant left. You see, not all of these types of attacks are happening to white people; minorities who voted for Trump are being targeted as well.

But has there really been a spike in hate crimes since the election? If you look carefully at the list, which the MSM fails to do, the claim begins to fall apart. As an example, the female Muslim student at the University of Louisiana who claimed that a white male ripped her hijab off, then spat at her admitted later that she made up the story.

She is not the only one: Eleesha Long, a student at Bowling Green University, posted on her Facebook page that three men wearing Trump T-shirts began throwing rocks at her and calling her racist names. She did not report the incident to police but after her Facebook post began to get a lot of attention, police at Bowling Green University took her down to the station where she filed a written complaint, reluctantly. As police began to investigate her claim, other posts on her Facebook page as well as a search of her cell phone proved that she was nowhere near the location where she claimed the incident occurred at the time she claimed it occurred. Again, she later admitted that she made the incident up.

Yet the Southern poverty Law Center kept these and other fake incidents on their list in order to prove their claim. These are far from the only incidence that have proven to be fake. There are a significant number of claims on their list that have been proven to be false.

Then there are the incidences which have dubious connection to any type of hate crime. A woman in Florida returned to her car after running in to a store to find that her car window had been broken out and her purse stolen. A note was left under the windshield wiper which contained a number of racist terms and threatened the woman if she did not leave the country. It turned out that she had left the note in order to make it look like a hate crime rather than a simple burglary.

Once again, even though disproven as a hate crime, Southern poverty Law Center kept this on their list. There are number of other dubiously reported hate crimes that include things like vandalism, such as profanity being spray painted upon the door of a minority business owners shop. None of the words painted on the door were race related terms, yet it somehow qualifies as a G