Via comment by Anonymous on
Fake Hate: Black Student Arrested for Threatening ...
One sure hate crime hoax and one likely hate crime hoax have been in the
news in the past few days. At Delta College in Michigan, a person who
posted on YikYak that he was going to "shoot every black person I can on
campus" turned out to be
Emmanuel D. Bowden, a black student.
At Harvard, there was a big outcry this week after students found black
tape defacing the photographs of all of the black Harvard Law School
professors. It turned out that the
black tape was identical to
the tape used by a group of activist black students at Harvard Law who
used it the very same day to cover up Harvard Law School's current seal,
which incorporates the coat of arms of a slaveholding family involved
with the school's founding. While it isn't yet certain, this appears to
be yet another hoax.
I've always felt that if a false accusation of rape can result in a
prison term of, say, five years for an innocent man, if it can be proven
that it was a maliciously false charge, the accuser should get an
equivalent sentence herself. After all, this is what the accuser was
trying to get for her victim, so that seems only fair.
So it should be with a hate crime hoax.
