ditto Duke lacrosse. Ludicrous claim, no facts, but the “perpetrators” were the ideal villains, according to the PC narrative.
Question — what does it say about these activists and liberal types, that they feel a strong need, to perpetrate hoaxes about how racist , bigoted, homophobic etc that our society is?
Follow up question —. What does it say about allegedly bigoted conservative types, that they are NOT actually carrying out these behaviors?
Final question- will the media ever delve into the first two questions, when hoaxes are exposed?
So will the consequences to the perpetuator of the hoax be as harsh as what would have happened to the boys had the story been true? Of course not. It never seems to be.
The boys’ futures in school, university admissions, and social media gossip noted by prospective employers could have damned them to an eternal apology and third-class citizen status.
Their families would have been pariahs in their community, and I can imagine the terrible blow-back with their parents’ employers, not to mention any associations.
These hoaxes are nothing more than digital lynchings.
Their must be severe consequences for these malicious, deliberate lies.
This hoax epidemic is actually a good thing. It will put people in “innoncent until proven guilty” mode big time. No more trials by public opinion. Or, at least it will be harder.
twelve year old is pretty young to come up with such nonsense. I suspect a parent or other influential adult put her up to it.
Too many people will remember the original hoax story. Too few people will remember the retraction.
I’d say she was put into this school with the hopes of making her a better person. Her grandparents are doing a good job.
Nowadays everybody wants to be a victim. In schools they no longer teach kids to admire great war heroes or people who actually did something. Instead they teach kids to admire victims, people who overcame some kind of “ism” or “phobia” against them. As soon as someone can claim to be a victim, they get attention, sympathy, admiration, and often money and other rewards. The only ones who can’t ever claim to be victims are white, straight males. The last thing liberals want is for white, straight males to never commit hate crimes. So if no white, straight males are committing hate crimes, liberals must fake it.
Even the golfer Eldrick Woods (better known by his nickname, which I refuse to use) once played this game, claiming that had been racially harassed when he was in kindergarten—an incident that his kindergarten teacher, who was still living, as well as classmates said never happened.
Put it on the literal fake hate crimes list: http://fakehatecrimes.org/
More than a thousand entries.
Every case hits the national news, fomenting hate against men, whites and conservatives ... and the retractions rarely hit the national news but never get the major coverage.
It is only the recent cases proven fake so quickly like Smollett that get any national admission when it is proven fake.