Wilfred Reilly | |
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Born | 1982or1983(age 41–42) [1] |
Academic background | |
Education | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (BA, PhD) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (JD) |
Thesis | The Effect of Racial Status and Other Core Characteristics on Collective Self-Esteem: A Quantitative Test of Divergent Theories of Identity Valuation (2015) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science |
Institutions | Kentucky State University |
Wilfred Reilly is an American political scientist. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Southern Illinois University and a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law. [2] Reilly's research focuses on empirical testing of political claims.
Reilly's book Hate Crime Hoax:How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War was published by Regnery Publishing in February 2019. [3] For the book,Reilly assembled a data set of 409 allegedly false or dubious hate crime allegations (concentrated during the past five years),which he describes as hoaxes on the basis of reports in mainstream national or regional news sources. Reilly has stated this data set is available to anyone who requests it. [4] He uses this data to support his claim that a substantial percentage of all hate crime allegations must be hoaxes,given that,per his analysis,only about 7,000 reported hate crimes take place in a typical year,and at most,8–10% of these receive the national or regional reporting that is required for inclusion in his data set. [5]
In the wake of the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax,Reilly authored an editorial outlining his case in USA Today. [6] After interviewing Reilly,the Washington Post argued that hate crimes are on the rise and a relatively small percentage of allegations are hoaxes but quoted him as saying "It’s politicization to say there’s a massive surge of hate" under President Donald Trump and that political liberals tend to characterize all hate crimes as "attacks on innocent people of color" when "you don't know what happened." [3]
Reilly,who is African American,has appeared or been quoted in television,radio and print media outlets, [4] [7] [8] amd claims that many or most recent high-profile hate crimes (like Smollett's alleged assault and Yasmin Seweid's anti-Muslim assault hoax) have turned out to be hoaxes. [9] [10]
On April 21,2016,Reilly participated in a regionally-televised debate against the alt-right personality Jared Taylor. [11] [12] Reilly argued for the social value of diversity by contending that it makes life "more interesting,civilized,and fun" and used published research to point out that mono-racial societies (such as Bosnia and Somalia) are often no more peaceful or less conflicted than multi-racial societies because of the greater prevalence of tribal in-fighting within them. [13] Taylor took the anti-diversity position.
Reilly's PhD dissertation,submitted in 2015,was The Effect of Racial Status and Other Core Characteristics on Collective Self-Esteem:A Quantitative Test of Divergent Theories of Identity Valuation. [14] In 2019,he published a summary of his dissertation in Commentary magazine. [4] [15]
In January 2020,Reilly published Taboo,a book in which he argues that certain race,gender,and class issues can no longer be discussed in mainstream American society. [1]
In 2016,Reilly criticized Trump,a presidential candidate for allegedly dog-whistling to the alt-right and described the 2016 United States presidential campaign as "shining [light] on some dark crevices of the Internet.". [16]
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