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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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15 Responses to “Fake Hate Update: ‘Minority’ Student Confesses to UCSD Noose Hoax”

  1. datechguy
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 8:40 pm

    This type of thing has become so common that one doesn’t expect it to be real anymore

  2. datechguy
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 3:40 pm

    This type of thing has become so common that one doesn’t expect it to be real anymore

  3. Tom Maguire
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 8:56 pm

    I am betting the “minority” student was Asian which is awkward but in a different way.

  4. Tom Maguire
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 3:56 pm

    I am betting the “minority” student was Asian which is awkward but in a different way.

  5. chuck cross
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 9:06 pm

    Just like that kid that wrote all sorts of screed over a Democratic office in, I believe it was, Denver Colorado.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/26/colorado-gop-calls-apology-democratic-office-vandalism/

    Need to reinforce your “protected class” status? Make some crap up.

  6. chuck cross
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

    Just like that kid that wrote all sorts of screed over a Democratic office in, I believe it was, Denver Colorado.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/26/colorado-gop-calls-apology-democratic-office-vandalism/

    Need to reinforce your “protected class” status? Make some crap up.

  7. Roxeanne de Luca
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 9:42 pm

    DTG beat me to it. The apologies and retractions follow the so-called incident as night follows day.

  8. Roxeanne de Luca
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 4:42 pm

    DTG beat me to it. The apologies and retractions follow the so-called incident as night follows day.

  9. Roxeanne de Luca
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 9:43 pm

    Or as reliably as snow storms follow Al Gore’s AGW speeches, I should say.

  10. Roxeanne de Luca
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 4:43 pm

    Or as reliably as snow storms follow Al Gore’s AGW speeches, I should say.

  11. Montana
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 12:19 am

    (1) UCSD: A group of dumb white frat guys hold an event called a “Compton Cookout.” This pisses people off as it used Black History Month as a reason to mock black people with racist stereotypes. Also involved is some idiot who tries to use this opportunity for shameless self-promotion, who also happens to be black. To say the least, the guy is basically a wannabe Flavor Flav.

    (2) UCSD: Another dumb white frat guy gets mad that blacks are offended of being relegated to a bigoted stereotype. He tries to hold another racist event.

    (3) UCSD: Meanwhile, a terrible student media publication (which, after viewing their website consists of all white staff, nudity, staff wrestling each other, and well, not much else), pushes their limits calling black students “ungrateful n——” – not just that word, but also that apparently the black students owed them something. They have a reputation of being trashy, and at this point, administration and faculty rush to condemn racism by students of the campus and various protests begin. Funding is also cut from all student media at UCSD, creating an extra bitter controversy.

    (4) UCSD: On Friday of that week, a noose is found in the library. Everything gets worked in a frenzy and – something I’ll address later – a large amount of white commenter’s on the internet begin claiming that is was probably a black student who planted it in order to gain more sympathy. In addition, there are rumors of a threatening note sent to the Guardian and a second noose, there was no second noose, and the threat seems to be just a rumor.

    (6) UCSD: Protests basically happen at all schools in support of the students. There are various sit-ins, and teach-ins, and what have you. School administrators become pushed to be more active in fixing what’s going on.

    I have not seen this noose person, but most of you blame her and conveniently forget wear this all originated.

    Instead of an apology there has been steady escalation and now the noose. So, what exactly will the excuses be for this cowardly act that brings up memories of the confederate KKK of the South in their attempts to keep slavery and the non-whites in fear? Is it that are uneducated, is it that their parents planted these seeds of hate, is it that they are live in fear because our President in the white house is not 100% white. In my opinion this is what the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” have brought you. These kids follow what their dullard leaders say, they listen to Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards, they are young and dumb. Are you surprise at what they do when you know what they think?

  12. Montana
    March 2nd, 2010 @ 7:19 pm

    (1) UCSD: A group of dumb white frat guys hold an event called a “Compton Cookout.” This pisses people off as it used Black History Month as a reason to mock black people with racist stereotypes. Also involved is some idiot who tries to use this opportunity for shameless self-promotion, who also happens to be black. To say the least, the guy is basically a wannabe Flavor Flav.

    (2) UCSD: Another dumb white frat guy gets mad that blacks are offended of being relegated to a bigoted stereotype. He tries to hold another racist event.

    (3) UCSD: Meanwhile, a terrible student media publication (which, after viewing their website consists of all white staff, nudity, staff wrestling each other, and well, not much else), pushes their limits calling black students “ungrateful n——” – not just that word, but also that apparently the black students owed them something. They have a reputation of being trashy, and at this point, administration and faculty rush to condemn racism by students of the campus and various protests begin. Funding is also cut from all student media at UCSD, creating an extra bitter controversy.

    (4) UCSD: On Friday of that week, a noose is found in the library. Everything gets worked in a frenzy and – something I’ll address later – a large amount of white commenter’s on the internet begin claiming that is was probably a black student who planted it in order to gain more sympathy. In addition, there are rumors of a threatening note sent to the Guardian and a second noose, there was no second noose, and the threat seems to be just a rumor.

    (6) UCSD: Protests basically happen at all schools in support of the students. There are various sit-ins, and teach-ins, and what have you. School administrators become pushed to be more active in fixing what’s going on.

    I have not seen this noose person, but most of you blame her and conveniently forget wear this all originated.

    Instead of an apology there has been steady escalation and now the noose. So, what exactly will the excuses be for this cowardly act that brings up memories of the confederate KKK of the South in their attempts to keep slavery and the non-whites in fear? Is it that are uneducated, is it that their parents planted these seeds of hate, is it that they are live in fear because our President in the white house is not 100% white. In my opinion this is what the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” have brought you. These kids follow what their dullard leaders say, they listen to Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards, they are young and dumb. Are you surprise at what they do when you know what they think?

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  14. RES
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 6:19 am

    Ordinarily, the number (5) follows (4) and precedes (6). You recall which one (5) is – it’s the last one you count before switching to the other hand.

    N.B., in any post calling other people “dumb” it is a good idea to spell “where” (as in: “most of you blame her and conveniently forget wear this all originated”) correctly. Just sayin’, IYKWIMAITYD.

  15. RES
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 1:19 am

    Ordinarily, the number (5) follows (4) and precedes (6). You recall which one (5) is – it’s the last one you count before switching to the other hand.

    N.B., in any post calling other people “dumb” it is a good idea to spell “where” (as in: “most of you blame her and conveniently forget wear this all originated”) correctly. Just sayin’, IYKWIMAITYD.