Left-wing college students have a difficult time finding the racism they’re certain permeates everything. And so they’re brazenly inventing it themselves.
November was an especially fertile month for racial hate-crime hoaxes. The Daily Mail on Saturday reported that the culprit behind offensive graffiti popping up around campus at Groucher College in Maryland had been identified. The scrawlings depicted Swastikas and also spelled out the N-word and the names of four black students — including the perpetrator.
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This graffiti, first seen in November, had led to protests, designated safe spaces, and a demand by students that incoming freshmen and transfers be required to take a “cultural competency” course, according to the Daily Mail’s report. But the perpetrator, Maryland police said, was identified after an investigation as Fynn Ajani Arthur, a 21-year-old lacrosse player who is black and had again tried to make himself the victim of his own hate crime.
He’s since been banned from campus while school administrators figure out what to do. In a sane world he would be expelled, but because this is a place of “higher learning,” don’t be surprised if instead Arthur is awarded course credit for highlighting the nonexistent oppression that he and others face on their campus.
Upon hearing that the whole thing was a lie, students were quoted in the Baltimore Sun saying they still believed racism to be a problem at the school — the “fake but accurate” defense.
Drake University in Iowa said last Friday that notes with racist messages sent to the dorm rooms of students were all traced back to one student — a female whose name police and the school are withholding while authorities determine if she will be charged with any crimes.
NBC affiliate WHOTV said five notes in total were sent to different students and reported to authorities and that an 18-year-old, who originally claimed to be the recipient of one of them, had authored at least four of them. WHOTV’s report didn’t say whether the student was black or white, but it most certainly wouldn’t be a hoax if she wasn’t black.
In another November incident, one day before the midterm elections, Kansas State student Broderick Burse posted a photo on Twitter that purported to show a note on her apartment door warning passersby, “Beware N****** Live Here!!! Knock at Your Own Risk,” according to the Wichita Eagle.
“[I]t’s 2018 and this was posted on my apartment door,” Burse wrote on her tweet. “[T]his is still happening here at [Kansas State] so if isn’t as evident as it already was everyone needs to get out and vote I refuse to let this blatant racism stop me from moving onward and upward.”
Police later found that she put the note up herself.
“Upon questioning, the person who reported the incident admitted to creating and posting the note to their own door,” police said, according to WHOTV’s report. “The matter will be addressed in accordance with applicable disciplinary procedures.”
These are not isolated incidents. They happen all the time on college campuses. It makes you wonder — does the need to make up oppression on campus have anything to do with the fact that it’s actually not common at all?
