Claremont [CA] professor suspected of staging hate crime

sfgate.com ^ | Wednesday, March 17, 2004

[vikingchick]

A professor who claimed she was targeted in a hate crime that stirred student protests at the Claremont colleges is suspected of staging the vandalism herself, police said Wednesday.

Kerri F. Dunn's car was vandalized and covered with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets on March 9, leading faculty to cancel classes and students to stage rallies the following day.

[martin gibson]

Professor Dunn is just another pig.

[mikrofon]

Kerri So F'n Dunn...

[the OlLine Rebel]

"I don't think spray can writing is comparable to handwriting."

Yes, it is. Doesn't matter if it's your fingers or arms controlling the movement, you tend to create the same characteristics. Try writing on a blackboard for all to see sometime. You'll see your writing isn't that different despite using your arm to essentially make the marks - vs your fine print on paper made w/finger control.

Perhaps you've noticed that w/your teachers over the years, indeed.

[DentsRun]

LA Times Article: Claremont Hate Crime Called Hoax,

By Joy Buchanan, Kristina Sauerwein and Stuart Silverstein, Times Staff Writers

Staff writers Monte Morin, Lance Pugmire, Arlene Martinez, Andrew Blankstein, Richard Winton and Seema Mehta contributed to this report.

Well you're absolutely right (and I was wrong). I thought for sure the LA Time would minimize the professor's involvement (after all, the editors would say, her heart was in the right place). Maybe they were really irked that they had been jerked around by this woman into devoting far more column inches to a couple of names spraypainted on a car than they did to murders, rapes, assaults and drive by shootings. Whatever the reason, the LA Times did do the right thing in the end by reporting the hoax completely.

[rabidralph]

Naturally, she drives a Honda.

[rabidralph]

My handwriting looks like it came out of a spray can.

[Mamzelle]

Munchausen's Syndrome--

Once you see this in action at close range, you are not the same.

[Bonaparte]

Yesterday, the police only telegraphed her guilt. This morning, they have come out and accused her directly, which means the DA gave them the green light. It also means they have her nailed on the evidence. In that community, you never proceed against a high-profile leftist unless you have an amazing amount of hard evidence. This will be a slam-dunk.

[Bonaparte]

And if there are serious enough federal charges against her, we can expect a "diminished capacity" type defense. Her lawyers and their testifying shrinks will convert her from the coldly calculating criminal she is into a hapless victim, all softy and fluffy. In that part of the state, the jury may very well go along with that and there will be many more of these incidents.

[Bonaparte]

"...Dunn's Reichstag stunt..."

Brother, you nailed it. In a previous post, I emphasized that this woman was inciting these "victims" to riot. We can just thank God that her treachery was exposed before people whose only crime was being white and male were subjected to "crystal night."

If I had been a student on one of those campuses when this began, I would have taken leave.

[Mamzelle]

I think this happens a lot more often among the "do gooders" than we realize, and conservatives can't be immune (being human beings of the same culture) though I haven't heard of such incidents on the other side of the aisle. Any racial/ethnic incident of this sort ought to be under high suspicion of Munchauesen's-style hoaxing and tampering.

Scratch any loudly liberal person and you're going to find what I call a "Harper Lee Complex." They all wish they'd written the ultimate Suffering of the Downtrodden With Noble Enlightened Rescuer Novel--"To Kill a Mockingbird", and they all want to play Atticus Finch, the faultless lawyer. I happen to regard this book and movie as hyper-sentimentalized, but dare to criticize it, and see whatcha get! In minutes, you'll be called a racist. Tried this just the other day on FR, sure enough, a Harper Lee wannabe showed up to do exactly that. I even told her exactly what I was doing, but she was too high on her own vanity to pay attention.

And that's what we've got here with this character.

Trouble is with the Harper Lee's of the world--there's not enough Downtrodden to go around (and certainly not from reliably safe distances). They've got to invent it in order to play Heroine.

Volunteer fire departments also have to keep an eye out for variations on the Munchausens--firebugs who set fires so that they can be the hero who puts them out.

[Bonaparte]

...same defense they came up with when the Tawana Brawley hoax was exposed: "Well, maybe this particular story wasn't 100% true -- but it could have been!"

Exactly. They will seek to minimize, to rationalize, to excuse.

This is happening right in David Horowitz' back yard. I hope he has the time to exploit this opportunity to flood these campuses with literature detailing all the proven cases of fake "racist" incidents in recent years and to speak out against these leftist academic liars and propagandists he knows so well. This would be the time to do that, when so many of these students are in doubt. If he waits, their profs will beat him out.

[Bonaparte]

I'm no expert in psychiatry, far from it. But my understanding is that Munchausen's involves feigning physical or mental illness in order to obtain the sympathy and attention of others. Dunn has not done this. I don't think it applies to the sort of set-up Dunn devised, although I'll allow that it's analogous. Her attorneys are certain to find shrinks who will assign an appropriate and impressive sounding diagnosis that will seem to fit. If she's charged with federal felonies and the jurors are in sympathy with her politics, it seems likely to me that they will spare her the punishment she deserves.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Trouble is with the Harper Lee's of the world--there's not enough Downtrodden to go around (and certainly not from reliably safe distances). They've got to invent it in order to play Heroine.
Volunteer fire departments also have to keep an eye out for variations on the Munchausens--firebugs who set fires so that they can be the hero who puts them out.

Exactly. We don't have enough to be worried about here. In this case I think it's mostly they just are "disappointed" (in a sick & twisted way) there isn't that much racism around, so they can go on saying how terrible America is (or white people specifically, or something) by making up some event.
I think this is the spoiled (rotten) syndrome our society has. It's almost like there's a gene in humans to need worries - and it makes up the difference if there aren't any real worries. Hence, even talk of food bans and taxes, etc. These are NOT serious issues, but we're making them up to be. Cuz we don't have many serious issues and what we do, just doesn't happen much!

[junta]

She is still a fat psycho pig regardless of the facts in this case.

[calcowgirl]

I would have assumed as you had... that the Hoax would have been covered as a one-liner somewhere near the classified section. But... sometimes the LA Times gets it right. Not often enough, for sure.

[Mamzelle]

I realize that I use the term loosely--but it is a useful term to use loosely. Once you see one of these cases at close range--and I managed to find myself entangled with one in my younger years (oh, shudder at the memory). The feigning of pain, suffering and victimization transcends that of the clinical presentation at hosptials of the dangerous hypochondriac.

Meunchausen is a term derived from the Baron von Meunchausen of literature--who told great stories about himself which were not true. These days, the more common case of Meunchausen's by Proxy is the parent (generally a mother, and generally this mother comes from some sort of medical background like Daddy is a Doctor) who makes her child sick so that she can not only enjoy the pity, but the admiring attention for being the Devoted and Longsuffering Mother.

These characters, like Dunn, who fabricate racial abuse, are hardly much different in pathology. The true object is gaining the pitying attention.

And, like the Proxy version, you can make someone else the victim and enjoy the heroine's role.

[Bonaparte]

"...can make someone else the victim..."

I think we can all agree that she has done that -- even the left will concur, the difference being that they will deny she is responsible for her crime.

[Mamzelle]

I'm not trying to work up an insanity defense--I hope they give her some hard time where she can REALLY feel sorry for herself--just to see the nature of the truck that's trying to run us down. There are lots of these nuts out there.

[Bonaparte]

"...lots of these nuts out there."

Tell me about it, M. I live nextdoor to Berkeley.