(TeaParty.org) – The high-profile hate hoax that Jussie Smollett shame dour nation with this month was not in fact the first time someone staged a hate crime against themselves in this nation, and it’s unlikely to be the last.

In fact, over the years, many less famous people have claimed to be assaulted or victimized in some way by someone ascribing to racist or homophobic views, and it’s quietly revealed somewhere down the line that it was entirely made up.

There was the young woman in New York who fabricated a story about being assaulted by a group of teenagers who formed a circle around her and shouted “Trump, Trump, Trump,” or the college students in Maryland who wrote racist graffiti on their own dorm room doors.

Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children reports that police in Michigan began investigating a fire that burned the home of a transgender person, Nikki Joly, to the ground, killing his/her (I legimitale have no idea what this person’s gender is) five pets, as a hate crime in December of 2017.

Thirteen months later, Joly him/herself was finally arrested and charged with arson after police at last discovered that he/she had burned down his/her own house.

The Detroit Free Press reports:

When the home of Nikki Joly burned down in 2017, killing five pets, the FBI investigated it as a hate crime. After all, the transgender man and gay rights activist had received threats after having a banner year in this conservative town. In the prior six months, he helped open the city’s first gay community center, organized the first gay festival and, after 18 years of failed attempts, helped lead a bruising battle for an ordinance that prohibits discrimination against gays. For his efforts, a local paper named him the Citizen of the Year. Authorities later determined the fire was intentionally set, but the person they arrested came as a shock to both supporters and opponents of the gay rights movement. It was the citizen of the year — Nikki Joly. “It’s embarrassing,” said Travis Trombley, a gay resident who fought for the ordinance. “How do you do it to the community you have put so much effort into helping?” Why Joly, 54, would allegedly burn down his home remains a mystery. He didn’t own the house, which was insured by its owner, police said.

In the police report, they detail how the timeline of the fire reveals that it would have been incredibly unlikely that anyone other than Joly could have set the fire. There were traces of gasoline in the home as well as on the clothing that Joly wore the date of the alleged hate crime.

Joly was questioned for 4 hours two weeks after the fire, and only arrested after 13 months.

Let this sink in: this gender-confused person literally burned down his or her dwelling with all his or her pets inside, killing them, because they wanted to bolster the narrative that gender-confused people are persecuted.

That is sheer insanity. This is the world we live in.

The victim status is the currency of intersectional leftists, and apparently some people will stop at nothing to become more victimized.

Meanwhile, there are real victims out there whose stories are undermined each and every time someone is so desperate for attention they fabricate a scenario in which they are the victim.