I don’t know why, but people seem to think that fabricating a crime is a reasonable way to bring awareness to an issue. Of course, no one seems to consider how stupid that makes you seem and just how it comes across as a desperate cry for attention and just utterly pathetic. If they did consider that, they wouldn’t do it.
In a long line of “hate hoaxes,” the latest of which occurred at a church, the MO is similar. Someone who believes that they are marginalized by society goes and commits an atrocity meant to give the impression that they were the victim of a hate crime.
The beauty of this stupidity is that it simply proves the point that racism, sexism, and every other form of “ism” out there just isn’t as widespread as we are led to believe. Of all the instances of so-called hate crimes in recent memory, I can count on one hand the number of them that were actually genuine, and that doesn’t include the numerous Jihadist attacks that have killed hundreds of people in the last few years which is just as equally hateful.
The reason I bring these up on a blog about college liberal bias, is because most of these hoaxes happen at colleges. These self-defeating incidents of hate, simply serve to make the crowd of intersectional oppression look like the snotty, nasty people that they are. The most amusing part, is that they say that simply because these incidents are faked, doesn’t invalidate their insistence that white supremacy, racism, nazism, homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, are all rampant in our culture and are institutionalized.
Really, it’s quite pathetic if you think about it. If I make up a lie about something, aren’t you less likely to believe me about anything else? I seem to remember a fable my parents told me growing up about a boy, a wolf, and a lie…
Collegiate Propaganda Watch 