[VIDEO] Heather Mac Donald: How Much More Delusional Can University Students Get?
Posted: January 2, 2018 Filed under: Censorship, Education, Think Tank | Tags: 1st Ammendment, Anti-Enlightenment, college, Freedom of speech, HEATHER MAC DONALD, Identity Politics, Manhattan Institute, propaganda, University, Victimhood, video 2 Comments
Heather Lynn Mac Donald (born 1956) is an American political commentator, essayist, attorney and journalist. She is described as a secular conservative. She has advocated positions on numerous subjects including victimization, philanthropy, immigration reform and crime prevention. She is a Thomas W. Smith Fellow of the Manhattan Institute.
In this clip, she talks about delusional university students who see a threat in anything even though they are the most privileged people. Until this victimhood complex stops, there can be no win for free speech.
Student Is Admitted To Stanford With Essay That Simply Repeated “Black Lives Matter” 100 Times
Posted: April 6, 2017 Filed under: Education, U.S. News | Tags: Black Lives Matter, college, Radical Left, Stanford University, University Leave a comment
Every student can recount the stress and work that went into their college essays. Indeed, some people hire advisers on the preparation of these essays. For Ziad Ahmed however repetition was the key. Asked by Stanford University to respond to “What matters to you, and why?”, his answer was to repeat the expression #BlackLivesMatter” 100 times. He got in.
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Michael Barone: Looking for Fascism in America? Look Left, on Campus
Posted: March 7, 2017 Filed under: Education, History, Terrorism, Think Tank | Tags: Alexandria, American Conservative Union, Berkeley, Breitbart News, Broad Institute, Campus, CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna, Liberal Fascism, Marxism, Milo Yiannopoulos, Radical Left, University, University of California, Violence, Virginia, Weimar Republic, White House Leave a comment
Michael Barone
writes: Something like that is happening now — but the violence is coming from leftists, not Trumpists. Take the University of California, Berkeley, [long pause] please. That’s where a speech to the Young Republicans by rightist provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was shut down by a screaming mob on February 1, as this eyewitness account from Power Line’s Steven Hayward records. Not only was the speech shut down, but gangs of ski-masked and bandana-wearing protesters roamed the streets just off campus with sledgehammers, smashing ATM machines. In one instance, Hayward reports, a 62-year-old Republican who voted for Hillary Clinton held up a sign reading “1st Amendment Protects All Speech” and, on the obverse side, “Even Milo’s” was punched in the nose and dropped to the ground.
Where were the police? Not in a position to help—by design. In this “lethal, horror situation,” said University of 
California Berkeley campus police chief Margo Bennett, according to the Los Angeles Times. “We have to do exactly what we did last night: to show tremendous restraint.”
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They made just one arrest. As for City of Berkeley police, according to the San Francisco Chronicle they came equipped with riot gear, but “as the violence escalated, officers pulled back.” Police on a balcony ordered rioters to disperse, but made no move to stop them, supposedly to prevent injury to “innocent protesters and bystanders.” City police made no arrests. “Our primary objective with the resources we had was the protection of life.” Read the rest of this entry »
Our Cult-Like Education System: Stella Morabito on the Ideological Cold War
Posted: February 13, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Education, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Activism, Alternative school, American Humanist Association, Americans, college campus, Donald Trump, Left Wing, Marxism, propaganda, Radical Left, Riots, Supreme Court of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, United States, University, Violence 1 Comment
Riot-Prone Mobs Are A Product Of America’s Cult-Like Education System
‘If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.’
— Thomas Jefferson
Stella Morabito writes
…Those who are pushing for sustained street resistance seem to be banking on two things. First they are betting that mainstream Americans won’t realize until it’s too late that we are in the midst of a virtual civil war that could turn violent. Dennis Prager recently wrote of this Second Civil War, warning Americans to wake up to it. Second, agitators are also wagering that Americans will not have the stomach for the prolonged fight they intend to bring to the streets, a point noted by psychologist Tim Daughtry in his book “Waking the Sleeping Giant.”
“What brought us to this place where the losing side has so utterly and violently rejected the peaceful transfer of power from one president to another, and previously agreed-upon electoral process and rules?”
So is this some kind of a joke? Revolution in the streets of America that overturns the election results? So far it all sounds so goofy, at least where it doesn’t get violent. We can watch in wonder as a shrieking NYU professor verbally assaults numerous police officers with the sort of impunity only afforded to the far-left. We can assure ourselves that there aren’t that many irrational people. Even if true, however, that’s beside the point. Too many citizens are at sea in understanding what freedom even means.
“Let’s face it. Today’s street theater is the culmination of decades of radical education revision. The radical Left’s systematic attack on the study of Western Civilization has essentially been an attack against the study of any and all civil societies. It is an attack on the features that make a society civil and free.”
We need to ask ourselves: What brought us to this place where the losing side has so utterly and violently rejected the peaceful transfer of power from one president to another, and previously agreed-upon electoral process and rules? It’s past time to ponder the quote from Thomas Jefferson: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
Destroying Our Education System Got Us Here
Let’s face it. Today’s street theater is the culmination of decades of radical education revision. The radical Left’s systematic attack on the study of Western Civilization has essentially been an attack against the study of any and all civil societies. It is an attack on the features that make a society civil and free. Those features include freedom of expression, civil discourse, the Socratic method of figuring out truth, value of the individual, and a common knowledge of the classics of history and literature that help us understand what’s universal in the human experience. All of that had to go.
[Read the full story here, at thefederalist.com]
Now, as we see students marching to demonize as “fascists” proponents of free speech, their ignorance is in full view. This is really a full frontal attack on the rule of law, the Constitution, and a system of checks and balances that guards against the consolidation of centralized power.
“The last 50 years have produced a huge wave of kids who are functionally uneducated.” https://t.co/4r0v3Lv6tm
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 13, 2017
That’s the whole point of the education these students have been fed. In fact, a lot of 1960s agitators, including domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, decided to place their bets on radical education revision. For at least 40 years, Ayers has been devoted to transforming schools from places of actual education to places of coercive thought reform. As Andrew McCarthy recently pointed out in National Review: “It was a comfy fit for him and many of his confederates, once it dawned on them that indoctrination inside the schoolhouse was more effective than blowing up the schoolhouse.”
If you review the history of radical education reform, it’s clear these agitators have been committing mind arson on the children, undermining their ability to think independently and clearly. (For more on this, read Robin Eubanks’ book “Credentialed to Destroy.”)
How to Short-Circuit a Child’s Thinking
Radical education reformers have made a point of removing context from children’s education, and to squash their natural curiosity, undermining their capacity to think. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Campuses Too Obsessed with Diversity, Victimization?
Posted: February 10, 2017 Filed under: Education, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Academia, Books, college campus, Diversity, Feminism, Fox News, Gender, Intersectionality, Liberal, Marxism, media, Progressivism, race, Socialism, Tucker Carlson, University, Victim status, video, White Men Leave a comment
[VIDEO] ‘Rape Culture’ on Campuses Overblown?
Posted: February 3, 2017 Filed under: Education, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: college campus, Due Process, Left Wing Propaganda, news, Progressivism, Rape culture, Tucker Carlson, University, video Leave a comment
George Will: ‘Alternative Facts’ & Safe Spaces Come from Similar Intellectual Problems
Posted: January 29, 2017 Filed under: Education, Think Tank | Tags: Apollo program, Barack Obama, college, Donald Trump, George Will, Harvard Extension School, Michael T. Flynn, Mike Pence, Naval War College, Rhode Island, Special Snowflake, The Chronicle Review, United States, University, University of Chicago 1 Comment
Myriad intellectual viruses are thriving in academia. Carried by undereducated graduates, these viruses infect the nation’s civic culture.
George Will writes: In 2013, a college student assigned to research a deadly substance sought help via Twitter: “I can’t find the chemical and physical properties of sarin gas someone please help me.” An expert at a security consulting firm tried to be helpful, telling her that sarin is not gas. She replied, “yes the [expletive] it is a gas you ignorant [expletive]. sarin is a liquid & can evaporate … shut the [expletive] up.”
“College, in an earlier time, was supposed to be an uncomfortable experience because growth is always a challenge.”
— Tom Nichols, professor at the U.S. Naval War College and the Harvard Extension School
Tom Nichols, professor at the U.S. Naval War College and the Harvard Extension School, writing in The Chronicle Review, says such a “storm of outraged ego” is an increasingly common phenomenon among students who, having been taught to regard themselves as peers of their teachers, “take correction as an insult.” Nichols relates this to myriad intellectual viruses thriving in academia. Carried by undereducated graduates, these viruses infect the nation’s civic culture.
“Unearned praise and hollow successes build a fragile arrogance in students that can lead them to lash out at the first teacher or employer who dispels that illusion, a habit that carries over into a resistance to believe anything inconvenient or challenging in adulthood.”
— Tom Nichols
Soon the results include the presidential megaphone being used to amplify facially preposterous assertions, e.g., that upward of 5 million illegal votes were cast in 2016. A presidential minion thinks this assertion is justified because it is the president’s “long-standing belief.”
[Read the full story here, at National Review]
“College, in an earlier time,” Nichols writes, “was supposed to be an uncomfortable experience because growth is always a challenge,” replacing youthful simplicities with adult complexities. Today, college involves the “pampering of students as customers,” particularly by grade inflation in a context of declining academic rigor: A recent study showed “A” to be the most commonly awarded grade, 30 percent more frequent than in 1960.
“Rather than disabuse students of their intellectual solipsism,” Nichols says, “the modern university reinforces it.”
— Tom Nichols
And a 2011 University of Chicago study found that 45 percent of students said that in the previous semester none of their courses required more than 20 pages of writing and 32 percent had no class that required more than 40 pages of reading in a week. Read the rest of this entry »
The Left Loses its Mind Over Conservative Group’s ‘Professor Watch List’
Posted: December 1, 2016 Filed under: Education, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Academia, Brandon Victor Dixon, Charlie Kirk, CNN, Communism, Donald Trump, Frankfurt School, Hysteria, Left Wing, Leftism, Marxism, Mike Pence, President of the United States, Professor, professorwatchlist.org, propaganda, Rebecca Schuman, Slate Magazine, Socialism, TPUSA, Twitter, United States, University 1 Comment
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Annabel Scott reports: Turning Point USA, a conservative organization made up of high school and college students, has compiled a website database of more than 200 professors at universities across the nation that “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”
“This list watches over us at our country’s darkest turning point, poised to inflame the tinder-dry, gasoline-soaked pitchforks of a mob that has just stepped boldly into the light.”
— Slate author Rebecca Schuman, hyperventilating at keyboard
The website, professorwatchlist.org, doesn’t list just any professor — TPUSA requires proof.
[Read the full story here, at The Daily Caller]
“This watchlist is an aggregated list of pre-existing news stories that were published by a variety of news organizations,” the website states. “While we accept tips for new additions on our website, we only publish profiles on incidents that have already been reported by a credible source.”
“Intentionally or not, the Professor Watchlist, simply by being a self-styled watch list, has aligned itself with the ugly, frightening new political status quo. This is, indeed, a turning point in our country, a time of fear unprecedented on this continent since the Second World War. Fear of being placed on a list, targeted as undesirable, and subjected to whatever happens next.”
— Slate author Rebecca Schuman
The website also says that TPUSA is not attempting to silence the professors on the list, but instead they are exposing “specific incidents and names of professors that advance a radical agenda in lecture halls.”
“The website has thin information in its entries and a less-than-smooth search function. That could be a reflection of how rapidly it was created to capitalize on the political climate, particularly after the election of Donald J. Trump as president.”
— Julio C. Pino, an associate professor history at Kent State
Since its recent debut, the list has seen no shortage of harsh criticism.
Slate author Rebecca Schuman deemed the watchlist “grotesque,” and called it “a stock agency for photos of self-satisfied young white people.”
“If the professors are so scared of what’s going on in their lecture halls being made public then that is their problem, not ours. We’re not trying to prevent teachers from saying anything. All we want here is to shine a light on what’s going on in our universities and the response has been incredible.”
— TPUSA founder and CEO, Charlie Kirk, defending the list
“Intentionally or not, the Professor Watchlist, simply by being a self-styled watch list, has aligned itself with the ugly, frightening new political status quo,” writes Schuman. Read the rest of this entry »
Xi’an, China: The Great Tower of Textbooks
Posted: December 1, 2016 Filed under: Asia, China, Education | Tags: Auto Guangzhou, CCTV, China, Kunming, Textbooks, University, Xi'an Leave a comment
A café in the central Chinese city of Xi’an has become a place of pilgrimage for students after its owner installed a giant artwork made of books as a symbol of the crushing workload that many of China’s schools impose on youngsters. At 7.5 meters tall with a diameter of 1.5 meters, the hollow edifice is made of over four tons of unwanted textbooks bought by Li from a nearby university. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] How the Federal Government Is Killing Free Speech on Campus
Posted: June 2, 2016 Filed under: Censorship, Education, History, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Campus, college, Facebook, Freedom of speech, Internet, Jim DeMint, Knowledge spillover, Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Welch, Reason (magazine), Robby Soave, The Washington Free Beacon, United States, University Leave a comment
“The vocal minority of students who actually want censorship—who want to be protected from ideas they don’t like—they’ve always existed,” says Reason associate editor Robby Soave. “But in the last five years they have gained institutional power on these campuses.”
From microaggressions and trigger warnings, to the shouting down and assault of controversial speakers, the climate on American college campuses have shifted sharply away from the classical understanding of free speech and inquiry that were once the bedrock of higher education.
Soave, who reports on political correctness and on college campuses for Reason, sat down with Reason magazine Editor-in-Chief Matt Welch at Reason Weekend, the annual event hosted by the Reason Foundation, to talk about the state of free speech on American colleges and universities.
Edited by Alex Manning. Camera by Paul Detrick and Todd Kranin
College Encourages Lively Exchange Of Idea
Posted: April 29, 2016 Filed under: Censorship, Education, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: college, First Amendment, Free Expression, Free speech, Ideology, Parody, satire, University Leave a comment
BOSTON—Saying that such a dialogue was essential to the college’s academic mission, Trescott University president Kevin Abrams confirmed Monday that the school encourages a lively exchange of one idea. “As an institution of higher learning, we recognize that it’s inevitable that certain contentious topics will come up from time to time, and when they do, we want to create an atmosphere where both students and faculty feel comfortable voicing a single homogeneous opinion,” said Abrams, adding that no matter the subject, anyone on campus is always welcome to add their support to the accepted consensus…(read more)
David Kaufman: ‘Sorry, Kids: A Real Movement Needs More than Hurt Feelings’
Posted: November 14, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Education, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Academia, Amateur Athletic Union, Association of American Universities, college, David Kaufman, Facebook, Fascism, Intolerance, Left Wing, Marxism, New York Post, Progressivism, propaganda, Totalitarianism, University, Yale University Leave a comment
The protests at the University of Missouri and Yale University have given us endless tales of racial slights and looming violence at campuses nationwide. But where’s the agenda?
“Most worrisome, by rooting these complaints almost entirely in an emotional agenda, the protesters conveniently shield themselves from a cornerstone of American liberal-arts education — self-reflection and honest critique.”
The alleged offenses range from the horrific — fecal swastikas, social-media threats against black students — to more trivial questions about skin tone, hair texture and economic status.
Stung by a seemingly endless barrage of race-based attacks, Missouri students feel “awkward,” “exhausted” and “uncomfortable,” The New York Times reports.
Elle interviewed a Yale senior who says the school makes people of color “feel small” and she, personally, like “the token black girl at the party every weekend.”
And The Washington Post wrote of Missouri students as “hurting victims” in need of a “rare space where their blackness could not be violated.”
Having survived my own journey as a minority at a pair of elite East Coast universities, I can understand these kids’ sentiments — no matter the navel-gazing. But the sentiment seems to drown out any discussion of much actual fact.
Reared on a diet of “microaggressions” and “hostile environments,” “safe spaces” and the need for “validation,” many of these students have seemingly conflated hurt feelings with actual outright discrimination.
[Read the full story here, at the New York Post]
The distinction is important — particularly at a moment when words like “violence,” “outrage” and “marginalization” have become little more than opportunistic jargon. Offense, while unfortunate, does not a movement make — a point wisely raised by Hillary Clinton when confronting #blacklivesmatter protesters this April. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Quod me nutrit me destruit’
Posted: November 12, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, China, Education, Mediasphere | Tags: Black people, college, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Free Press, Hot Air, Jazz Shaw, media, Quod me nutrit me destruit, Twitter, University Leave a comment
Stupid Human Tricks: Can It Sing?
Posted: September 29, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Health and Social Issues, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Activism, college, Empowerment, Feminism, Grievance, Gynocracy, Gynosphere, satire, Singing, Tumblr, University, Vagina, Victimhood, Voice, Vulva 1 Comment
Both Were Drunk. Jake Could Consent? How?
Posted: July 11, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Education, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Alcohol, Bias, Civil Rights, college, Consent, Due Process, equality, Feminism, Hooking Up, Intoxication, propaganda, Rape, Sexism, University Leave a comment
Survey Reveals: U.S. Schools Expelled 8,000 Chinese Students for Poor Grades, Cheating
Posted: May 28, 2015 Filed under: Asia, China, Education | Tags: Alien (law), Barack Obama, Cease and desist, Cheating, college, College Exam Scheme, Ivy League, United States Department of Homeland Security, University, WholeRen 1 Comment
The survey comes amid reports that federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh have indicted 15 Chinese citizens for allegedly taking part in a college exam scheme
Liyan Qi reports: As tens of thousands of Chinese students prepare to study in the U.S., they might reflect on the experience of some of those who went before them. According to an estimate by a U.S. education company, some 8,000 Chinese students were expelled from American universities last year alone – and the main reasons were poor grades and cheating.
“This is an issue not just about students in the U.S., but about the entire higher-education system in China.”
The estimate by WholeRen Education, a U.S. company that caters to Chinese students, was based on official U.S. data and a survey of 1,657 students expelled from American universities last year. More than 80% of these students were expelled because of poor academic performance or dishonesty, the company said.
“Chinese students used to be considered top-notch but over the past five years their image has changed completely — wealthy kids who cheat.”
— Chen Hang, chief development officer at WholeRen
The company surveyed students about their U.S. study experience a year earlier but didn’t make any estimate for expulsions.
The survey comes amid reports that federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh have indicted 15 Chinese citizens for allegedly taking part in a college exam scheme.
[Read the full text here at WSJ]
Stacked up against the huge numbers of Chinese students who go to American universities every year, the failure rate isn’t so bad, WholeRen said, though it does suggest a change in the once-shining image of students from China. Read the rest of this entry »
Mythical Voltaire’s Free Speech for Millennials
Posted: May 15, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Education, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Academia, college, First Amendment, Free speech, Freedom of Expression, hate speech, Neo-Victorian, Political Correctness, Progressivism, Speech Codes, The Enlightenment, University Leave a comment
Generational Priorities: A Failing Grade
Posted: January 17, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Humor, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Activism, censorship, college, Conformism, Freedom of speech, Law Enforcement, Police, Progressivism, Protest, satire, Socialism, Speech Codes, Terrorism, University 4 Comments
Economics: $34 Billion Headline of the Day
Posted: January 9, 2015 Filed under: Education, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, college, Fiction, Progressivism, Socialism, State of the Union, Taxation, Unicorns, University, Utopia, Weekly Standard Leave a comment
Columbia Law School Lets Traumatized Students Postpone Exams: Harvard Med Student Paralyzed in Accident, Doesn’t Complain, Completes Exams, Graduates
Posted: December 9, 2014 Filed under: Education, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, The Butcher's Notebook, Think Tank, U.S. News | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Columbia Law School, Emotional Trauma, Exams, Grand jury, Harvard Medical School, Paralysis, Spine Injury, Trauma, University 2 Comments
[VIDEO] Higher Education: New Documentary Questions Absurd Cost of College
Posted: June 14, 2014 Filed under: Economics, Education | Tags: Andrew Rossi, college, Daily Caller, HBO, Ivory Tower, Participant Media, Sundance Film Festival, The College Fix, University 1 Comment
For The Daily Caller, Eric Owens reports: If you are looking to catch a flick this weekend, you could do a lot worse than “Ivory Tower.”
The provocative documentary, which hit select theaters on Friday, demonstrates in sad detail how American college students and their families are struggling to cope with tuition prices that have skyrocketed 1,120 percent in “absolute dollars” since 1978.
WATCH
The director, Andrew Rossi, talked to The College Fix recently about the documentary.
[New Documentary Exposes Vast Wealth Squandered on Campuses – thecollegefix.com]
Rossi observed that salaries for bureaucrats ranging from incredibly cushy to downright obscene have been a huge factor in tuition increases.
“The increase in administrators and professional staff has far outpaced the growth of full-time faculty.”
— Director Andrew Rossi
Many college presidents now bring home seven-figure salaries, he noted. Read the rest of this entry »
Alarming Education Document of the Day: ‘Social Justice’ Mathematics
Posted: April 29, 2014 Filed under: Economics, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: college, High school, Liberalism, Marxism, Mathematics, Progressivism, propaganda, Public Education, Social justice, Socialism, University 1 Comment
Reality Check: Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Posted: March 27, 2014 Filed under: Education, Global, History, Politics | Tags: Apartheid, Arabia, Bejamin Porgund, college, Democracy, Education, Israel, Leftist Propaganda, Marxism, Palestine, Progressive Secularism, race, religion, South Africa, University 1 Comment
The Honest University Commercial
Posted: February 27, 2014 Filed under: Education, Humor | Tags: college, Honest University Commercial, Humor, satire, Student Loans, University 1 CommentThe Honest University Commercial
Vintage Pulp Fiction Book Cover of the Day
Posted: February 17, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Education, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Art, college, Comics, design, Franternity, graphics, Illustration, Monarch Books, novel, Paperback, Sorority, Tom Phillips, typography, University, vintage 1 Comment
The Sorority Girls | Pulp Covers
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A recent history of hate-crime hoaxes
Posted: August 24, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Aimee Whitchurch, Alexandra Pinell, Alicia Hardin, Alta Rae Merkling, college campus, fakehatecrimes.org, hate crimes, hoaxes, Kerri Dunn, Khalilah Ford, Kristel Conklin, Meg Lanker Simons, Montclair State University, Oberlin, Olivia McRae, Quinn Matney, Safia Jilani, swastika, Tanasia Linton, University Leave a commentRacism and hate are real. Hate crimes do happen — some violent, some just threatening.
But unfortunately, there is no shortage of wannabe heroes — who in most cases have never suffered discrimination — actively undermining the cause by committing fake hate crimes, often with the idea of drawing attention to an issue.
The Daily Caller had a piece this week on a recent and especially pernicious hoax at Oberlin College, perpetrated by an overzealous, outspokenly liberal Obama campaigner and his friend. The two young men terrorized their campus with racist graffiti, flyers, and emails sent from a fake address using the name of the university’s president, at one point placing a flag with a swastika in a campus building. The incidents received national news coverage.
Incredibly, once the hoaxers had been discovered, suspended, and removed from campus, university administrators concealed their knowledge that it had been a hoax, leaving other students (and Americans in general) to fear that their campus was a far more dangerous and hostile place than it actually was.
Fake hate crimes are sometimes politically motivated, designed to get a reaction from people and convince them that hate is a really big problem — this is usually done by liberals, but in at least one prominent case (see below) it was done by a conservative. In other cases, the perps have other motives, such as financial fraud or a need for evidence to bolster a discrimination lawsuit.
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