Syne > Nov 13, 2018 12:04 AM
Kansas State University police received a report on November 5 from a student who had found a racist note posted on his door.
The student, Brodrick Keith Burse III, said in a since-deleted tweet that he returned to his apartment and found the note posted outside his door.
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The note on Burse’s door read: “Beware N*****S Live Here!!! Knock at your own risk.”
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“On Monday, Nov. 5, K-State Police received a report of the note. Upon questioning, the person who reported the incident admitted to creating and posting the note to their own door.”
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As the Fix reported, this is the second hate-crime hoax at KSU in as many years, and the previous hoaxer received no punishment.
Dauntarius Williams wrote the n-word all over his car last year in graffiti and claimed he was the victim of racism. He later admitted he painted the car himself as “a Halloween prank that got out of hand.” Though he faced no punishment for the hoax, KSU police “stepped up patrols,” the school developed a multicultural center, and created two new campus “diversity” positions to respond to the alleged racism.
These two incidents follow a pattern of hate-crime hoaxes perpetrated on college campuses. This reporter has never seen any claim of such a hate crime ever being true. Typically, the hoaxers claim they committed the hoax to “start a dialogue” about a problem allegedly so pervasive on their campuses that they had to fake an incident to call attention to it.
It never seems to matter that every incident of overt racism on college campuses turns out to be fake, the schools still rush to hire more diversity officers (even though research suggests they don’t improve anything) to prove they take the issue seriously. Nothing changes after the hoaxes are revealed.
Secular Sanity > Nov 13, 2018 04:44 PM
Syne > Nov 13, 2018 06:17 PM
Secular Sanity > Nov 13, 2018 10:12 PM
(Nov 13, 2018 06:17 PM)Syne Wrote: HPD does sounds like a pretty good diagnosis for both hate crime and sexual assault hoaxes. I had just assumed that they were extreme cases of bigoted projection. Not like these women are closet rapists, but like their own hatred can only be justified to themselves if their target is that vile. Faked hate crimes seem a more direct projection of the accuser's own bigotry. And the hoax is an attempt to justify their hatred externally. A kind of "see, this is why I hate them".
I wonder why we only seem to hear about these attention seekers. Certainly we would assume that there are legit hate crimes and rapes for the media to cover. So what is it that real crimes lack as far as newsworthiness? Is it that only the fakes ones serve a political agenda?
Syne > Nov 14, 2018 12:08 AM
(Nov 13, 2018 10:12 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: I don’t know. Maybe they’re the ones that tip off the press. I’m only familiar with the term because I knew someone that I thought might have it. ...
I don’t know what the answer is because if we did what you suggested earlier in regards to the punishment, it would discourage actual victims from coming forward.
Magical Realist > Nov 14, 2018 05:39 PM
Leigha > Nov 15, 2018 05:02 AM
C C > Nov 15, 2018 08:19 AM
(Nov 13, 2018 12:04 AM)Syne Wrote: Many more:
http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
Hate crime and sexual assault hoaxes
Quote:Waitress Makes $3,600 in Donations After Receiving 'Racist Note.' Now Her Story's Falling Apart.
Syne > Nov 15, 2018 08:05 PM
(Nov 15, 2018 08:19 AM)C C Wrote: Then there's fraudulent "do-gooding". Not so much a quick money-maker as just ensuring steady employment in a profession; plus there really is a "saint" motivation.