Michelle Malkin details the strange case of an African American college student who has been arrested for allegedly making racist threats against other African Americans at her college. The Trinity International University student's threats caused the school to evacuate about one-hundred minority students to an off-campus hotel. The motive? The unidentified woman wanted an excuse (an unsafe campus environment) to go home.

Last year, a Claremont McKenna professor staged a hate-crime upon herself. Following 9/11, a Muslim student generated headlines when he was pelted with eggs and beaten by rednecks. He generated more headlines when his story turned out to be a hoax. Around the same time, a gay College of New Jersey student made death threats against himself and other gay students that caused the cancellation of classes, thousands of dollars in university expenditures on pro-gay t-shirts, and a needless police investigation. Despite the havoc the hoaxer caused, a College of New Jersey women's studies professor contended, "we gained so much." Ann Marie Nicolosi opined, "It was a wonderfully teachable time to talk about what we face, and I hope the student body's attitude is a bit more enlightened than it was before."

I wonder if the people that do this sort of thing to generate sympathy for a cause realise that by crying wolf like this they are only going to convince people that they really face persecution from their own imagination (which is true enough anyway).

I guess a classical education is something they never got. ;)

Jason

Cries for attention dressed up as cries for hate. Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face! Like something out of Dostoyevsky.

This is a truly fantastic article! Well done.

"Fake but Accurate" seems to be catching on.

The "Reverend" Al Sharpton got people killed and burned out parts of New York with these types of hoaxes.

Democratic candidate for President he was.

Be afraid.

asdf, for clarity re Sharpton, I haven't heard him accused of "[getting] people killed and burned out". Could you be specific?

Al Sharpton was principally responsible for staging a number of hate rallies attacking non-black Harlem store owners. This led to stirring up a large number of the local population which led to a frenzied mob burning out a clothing store and killing eight people.

Also, Tawana Brawley claimed that two and possibly six white men had raped her. Sharpton took up Brawley's cause and defended her refusal to cooperate with prosecutors. There was no evidence of the crimes. Sharpton then accused a local police cult with ties to the Irish Republican Army of perpetrating the alleged assault. The case fizzled when a security guard for Brawley's lawyers testified that the lawyers and Sharpton knew Brawley was lying. A grand jury investigation concluded in late 1988 that Brawley "was not the victim of forcible sexual assault" and that the whole thing was a hoax.

Was familiar with the Brawley hoax but not the store fire. Thanks.