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Fertile ground for fake hate

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 1, 2008 10:25 AM

I wrote a special column for the NYPost today on the Columbia University noose case.

Read it here. My conclusion:

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.

Bull, bull and bull. Faked campus hate crimes diminish the credibility of whistleblowers with bona-fide claims of victimization. They squander law-enforcement resources. They poison the academic environment.

It’s time to man up, stand up to race charlatans and crack down hard on those who play the system.

As the grievance-hustlers like to chant: “No justice, no peace.”

There’s definitely a book to be written someday on the phenomenon of hoax crimes.

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  1. #1
    On April 1st, 2008 at 10:33 am, cpodug said:

    Fertile ground for fake hate

    The ground is made fertile by all the BS that’s pumped out - makes great fertilizer

  2. #2
    On April 1st, 2008 at 10:35 am, bloghooligan said:

    the more removed i am from my college years, the more i look back and realize how ridiculous many of those people are.

    i also think fake hate crimes result in more exclusion, self-segregation, and hate. why should someone from the ‘majority’ chance being branded a racist?

  3. #3
    On April 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am, ThackerAgency said:

    wait a minute. . . your screen is BLACK instead of WHITE. Are you performing in BLACKFACE?! YOU RACIST!

  4. #4
    On April 1st, 2008 at 10:53 am, BlameAmericaLast said:

    How about the fertile ground for REAL hate? Rev. Wright-style…

  5. #5
    On April 1st, 2008 at 10:58 am, 30 pcs of silver said:

    Fake hate just proves that race relations are getting better. However, grievance mongers being what they are, will not let it die. They search for racism in the most inane things and when that doesn’t work, they simply make it up. Fake but accurate! No, it’s just plain ol’ wrong.

  6. #6
    On April 1st, 2008 at 11:05 am, max said:

    On April 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am, ThackerAgency said:
    wait a minute. . . your screen is BLACK instead of WHITE. Are you performing in BLACKFACE?! YOU RACIST!

    Mammie… how I hate ya , how I hate ya, my dear ole mammie…

  7. #7
    On April 1st, 2008 at 11:12 am, geminicontender said:

    Why allow these pro-abortionists fertile ground?

  8. #8
    On April 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am, nbarry said:

    Colleges try to wall themselves off from the outside world to maintain their “academic” atmosphere. That’s why most graduates tend to quickly rejoin reality and forget their indoctrination once they have to go out and earn a living (and pay off their student loans.)

  9. #9
    On April 1st, 2008 at 11:16 am, geminicontender said:

    Did Michelle Obama pay off her loans? Did she forget her indoctrination? I do not think so. And neither did her husband Hussein.

  10. #10
    On April 1st, 2008 at 11:24 am, Speakup said:

    Too much immaturity in schools meant to produce mature adults.

  11. #11
    On April 1st, 2008 at 11:25 am, Tom Blogical said:

    There’s definitely a book to be written someday on the phenomenon of hoax crimes.

    (Channeling my best Peyton Manning impression…)

    Write that book! Write that book! Write that book!

  12. #12
    On April 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am, BadIdeaGuy said:

    It’s probably worth considering the types of cry-wolf scenarios that are encouraged before we go and make more protected groups.

  13. #13
    On April 1st, 2008 at 11:39 am, rooster said:

    God bless you Michelle for raising this issue.

    Too often it’s not dealt with as you have written when the perps are black.

    I am sick of the race card and the victimization card.

    God bless Rev Wright and B Hussein Obama for showing citizens of our country and the world, the secret racism within the comfort of many black churches.

    Give em hell Michelle!

  14. #14
    On April 1st, 2008 at 11:54 am, BrianNY said:

    I hate to keep sounding like a broken record, but as reported in a 10/12/07 AP story at North Jersey dot com, (the link is no longer available!) a NYPD spokesperson declared that Professor Madonna Constantine was a “victim.” This was only 2-3 days into the investigation, at a time when Columbia University was not cooperating with the NYPD regarding possible security camera footage.

    I would still like to know who officially characterized Professor Constantine a victim, and how this was deduced just 2 days into the investigation?

    It would be irresponsible for me to claim that Professor Constantine is a con-artist without substantial evidence. But wasn’t it also irresponsible for the NYPD to declare Constantine a “victim” just 2 days into an investigation, and without any official explanation to this day as to why?

  15. #15
    On April 1st, 2008 at 1:03 pm, Chief RZ said:

    Just think of all the damage Al Sharpton did with his Tawana Brawley hoax. He ruined the chances for real relationships between ordinary people for about thirty years or more and fanned the type of hatred that we have seen recently in several Chicago “churches.”

  16. #16
    On April 1st, 2008 at 1:56 pm, DanMan said:

    I recall reading in Jonah Goldberg’s latest book Liberal Facism that it was hoax at Columbia in 1969 that led to a race riot type incident. Same school, same tactic, same audacity of being stuck in the past.

  17. #17
    On April 1st, 2008 at 2:44 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Did Michelle Obama pay off her loans? Did she forget her indoctrination?

    Gemini, she was saying recently how tough it was living on $300,000 a year when you had to pay back college loans and pay for the kids dancing and music lessons. The indoctrination seems alive…

  18. #18
    On April 1st, 2008 at 3:39 pm, philmon said:

    They meant well. At least they “raised awareness.” Nobody was hurt.

    Bull, bull and bull. Faked campus hate crimes diminish the credibility of whistleblowers with bona-fide claims of victimization. They squander law-enforcement resources.

    Yup… and one more thing. They perpetuate a stereotype of non-blacks that says they’re all racist.

    In a word … it’s actually … racist.

  19. #19
    On April 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pm, Al in St. Lou said:

    It’s time to man up….

    Well, there go all your feminist readers!

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