Fake Hate Update: ‘Minority’ Student Confesses to UCSD Noose Hoax
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | 15 Comments
An increasingly familiar type of liberal campus activism:
The UC San Diego student reportedly responsible for hanging a noose last week in a campus library issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist motivation.
The noose’s discovery set off protests at a school that is already tense from recent racially charged episodes and triggered condemnations from UC leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In a letter published Monday on the front page of the UC San Diego student newspaper, the Guardian, the student wrote that the incident was “a mindless act and stupid mistake” and was not meant to recall the lynching of blacks.
“As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by the recent issues on campus, I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain,” the student wrote. She was suspended Friday and remains under investigation for a possible hate crime.
Notice that both the university administration and the student newspaper are protecting the hoaxer’s identity. The “recent issues on campus” meme is always a favorite excuse for these campus fake-hate stunts, with the perpetrators claiming that their intention was to call attention to the racist/sexist/homophobic oppression at their (predictably liberal) universities.
As a general rule, the self-indulgent sense of entitled victimhood is directly proportional to the intensity of political correctness on campus. Thus, it was at ultra-PC Harvard that tenured professors (i.e., the most privileged and protected creatures in the campus hierarchy) claimed to have been victimized by a few inconvenient comments by Larry Summers.

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