When Allentown, Pennsylvania, city employee LaTarsha Brown claimed last month that she was a hate crime victim, it appeared to be another hoax, much like that staged by actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago a few years back.

Brown, who’s also a member of the Allentown school board, said that someone had left a noose on her desk. But she was uncooperative with investigators, and DNA evidence indicated that the only person who’d handled the noose was Brown herself.

As it turns out, reports of hate crimes almost always turn out to be hoaxes, proving that the demand for hate far outweighs the supply. College campuses are especially fertile ground for such hoaxes, for students, staff, and professors alike, according to The College Fix.

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