"Hate crime hoaxes have become a tried and true American tradition.
We can generally count on a spate of high profile hoaxes to mark each season, especially since President Trump was elected.
This past fall, college hoaxers carried most of the load.
- A racist message posted to a dorm room door at Kansas State turned out to be written by the supposed victim.
- A student at Ohio University received anti-gay death threats that she had sent to herself.
- The winter featured two all-time great hoaxes with Jussie Smollett staging a racist assault on himself
- and the media turning a group of innocent high school kids into a roving gang of dangerous bigots.
- ...Democratic Representative Erica Thomas decided to stray from that script this week. Thomas claimed that a racist white man verbally assaulted her for bringing too many items into the express lane at the grocery store, calling her "lazy" and telling her to go back where she came from. Hate hoax connoisseurs could sense the phoniness immediately...A description of the security camera footage indicates that Thomas was also the aggressor, coming toward Sparkes and wagging her finger while he backed away. If there was any racism in this exchange, it seems that Thomas is the one who supplied it.
All of this hoaxing is peculiar.
We are assured by the Left that America is a racist country where white supremacists roam free. Bigotry is endemic.
...Strange, then, to see members of racial and ethnic minorities inventing fake occurrences of racism. Why should that be necessary, if racism is as rampant as they say?
If there is such a surplus of bigotry, why was Erica Thomas stuck with the homemade variety?...
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