(h/t: Jonathan)
Michelle Malkin goes down the list of fake hate crimes in recent years in The New York Post.
She's writing in the wake of the probably faked Columbia noose incident.
Any of these incidents sound familiar? Any of the conditions sound alike at our campuses?
Mix identity politics, multicultural studies, cowardly administrators and sympathetic media - and you've got a toxic recipe for opportunistic hate-crime hoaxes. Today's Tawana Brawley-copycats couldn't ask for better enablers.
* In 2001, Arizona State University student Ahmad Saad Nasim admitted to police that he'd fabricated two anti-Muslim hate-crime incidents against himself.
* In 2002, black students at the University of Mississippi scrawled racist graffiti in campus housing.
* In 2004, Kerri Dunn, an assistant visiting professor at Claremont McKenna College, was sentenced to prison after staging an anti-Semitic hate crime against herself.
* In 2005, a lesbian student at Mt. Tamalpais HS in Marin County, Calif., faked several anti-gay incidents to garner attention and sympathy.
* Last fall, George Washington University student Sarah Marshak admitted scrawling swastikas on her own dorm-room door.
* Last December, an idiot Princeton student, Francisco Nava, falsely claimed he was targeted and beaten because of his politics.
Campuses remain fertile ground for hate-crime hoaxes because administrators - whipped up into p.c. frenzies when the "crimes" are first reported - are reluctant to crack down on minority students and professors who perpetrate the lies. In many of these cases, charges against the con artists are reduced to wrist-slaps or dropped completely.
And the university grievance-coddlers come up with excuses to rationalize away the manufactured hate: They meant well. At least they "raised awareness." Nobody was hurt.
9 comments:
Took you long enough Charles.
A whole 2 hours? You're losing your touch.
Also, the fact that it is April Fools Day could have something to do with it.
never mind it was on Saturday
Though, for the record, Francisco Nava (the guy in Malkin's last example) was a conservative. A really disturbing story, actually: The guy didn't just claim an attack, he physically beat himself -- and pretty savagely, too.
That doesn't sound very conservative to me.
Yes, some hate crimes are faked. Your examples of "Fate (sic) Hate Crimes" are hardly compelling evidence that all/most are not real bias incidents.
It seems odd that Michelle was only able to come up with six examples if the majority of hate crimes are, in fact, falsified.
You give no evidence to support that the hate crime that occurred on Saturday is fake, only that a tiny percentage of the total hate crimes reported turn out to be false.
Drew, my apologies. I've been getting a life. It isn't a very good one, but I'm working on it.
John, you are absolutely right on Nava being a conservative. It pains me to see that our side has nuts, too, but fortunately the other side has more.
Zach, thanks for catching the spelling error. As for your assertion that a tiny percentage are fake, I'd like to see your numbers.
Can you name a single instance this year of a hate crime? I'm not talking about the white party, or the foxy lesbian comment, or even the Scripps "it's a bias-related incident but we won't tell you what it is" incident.
I certainly cannot think of one.
By the way, I'm going to call the police again and see if I can get photos of the attack.
I am very well aware w/ Saad Nasim incident. Michelle Malkin had various/ conflicting reasons explaining his actions. As a friend, I can only say that it is hurtful to hear Malkin speculate on a wide range of ideas about someone she really does not know. The conclusions that she draws in her article are ridiculous. Furthermore, only a week/ couple days before Nasim's incident, an Indian gas station owner was killed in Phoenix as part of a hate crime. Also we had the lockdown on immigration and illegal detentions at Guatanomo Bay. So the fact that it set off a small sect of people acted in a way to gain- PERSONAL SYMPATHY- which is what many of these fakers really desired should not be used to support Fox News desire to work the REFs.
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