Eddie Scarry writes at the Federalist about the larger implications of the Jussie Smollett hoax. Even though Jussie Smollett has been found guilty of staging a homophobic and racist assault…
In a recent USA Today article about Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax, Wilfred Reilly, an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University, says: That [the Smollett] case turned out to…
A campus lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender center is defaced with hateful messages, with no witnesses—right around the time the state legislature introduces a bill banning gay marriage. Headlines scream, university administrators wax indignant,…
Turns out there really isn’t an Evil Anti-Gay Branding Bigot haunting a bridge at UNC-Chapel Hill like so many Grimm trolls. Chancellor Holden Thorp sent an email this evening to…
I posit that as a question because it’s difficult to tell from the news today how much of the crime just wasn’t. Muddying the issue is that there are several…
I have a feeling that most of the noose incidents that are cropping up are copycat incidents perpetrated by the very people who later profess outrage. Like this one, and…
From Ham’s link below: One piece of the graffiti said the attack was ?from the College Republicans.? … The university and police officials realized that the College Republicans and the…
This from Trinity International University per Chicago Tribune (registration details available at BugMeNot.com): A Trinity International University student has been arrested and charged with sending racially inflammatory hate mail to…
I’ve written on occasion about faked hate crimes on college campuses. This past spring there was a doozy of one at Claremont, for example. And this past fall, Duke reeled…
Here is from one of the initial reports of the incident: The Claremont Colleges canceled classes Wednesday in response to a hate crime targeting a psychology professor lecturing about racism.…