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Student admits hanging noose in campus library
CNN ^ | February 26, 2010 | Staff

Posted on 02/27/2010 7:36:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

(CNN) -- The University of California San Diego has suspended a student who admitted to hanging a noose in a campus library, school officials announced Friday.

"We are feeling real pain, and we will take real action," said UCSD chancellor Marye Anne Fox told reporters. "The safety of our students, faculty, and staff is my primary concern."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: fakehatecrimes; hoax; moron; noose; ucsd
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To: freedumb2003
If it is a hoax, it is using a powerful symbol — up there with cross burning. I mean, how bad could a cross burning be, right? Or yellow stars put on a Jewish frat house

Or a crucifix on a Catholic church.

61 posted on 02/27/2010 8:58:59 AM PST by AmishDude
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To: BlueLancer
Does a whip mean anything more than that?

Indiana Jones and the Racist Symbol

62 posted on 02/27/2010 8:59:47 AM PST by AmishDude
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To: freedumb2003
"Or yellow stars put on a Jewish frat house..."

If somebody hangs a Yellow Star of David on my front door, it doesn't mean anything. I'm not Jewish. That symbol ONLY has meaning for a Jew.

If someone hangs a noose on my front door, it could be seen as constituting a threat ... even though I'm white. That has a more general meaning. If they put it on my door, it would probably mean that somebody sees me as having done something worth hanging me for. There's nothing INHERENTLY racial about a noose.

63 posted on 02/27/2010 9:02:08 AM PST by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: AmishDude; freedumb2003

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar ...


64 posted on 02/27/2010 9:03:22 AM PST by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

How come the orientals and eastern Indians never rise up in outrage and protest?


65 posted on 02/27/2010 9:04:26 AM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
So when did a noose become the sign of hatred toward blacks???

About the same time Little Black Sambo which is a story about a little boy from India! got called racist. "Tar and feather" is another so-called racist term. It's claimed that blacks were the target but in fact it was about tax collectors in New England who were very much white.

There are a lot of ignorant people in this world who want to be victims and a lot of super sensitive folks who believe ridiculous claims.

66 posted on 02/27/2010 9:05:50 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“We are feeling real pain, and we will take real action,” said UCSD chancellor Marye Anne Fox”

Why?


67 posted on 02/27/2010 9:06:57 AM PST by Grunthor (The more people I meet, the more I love my dogs.)
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To: freedumb2003

“My point remains that the noose is seen as a symbolic threat in the black community and with at least some good reason. “

Even though a number of blacks were lynched, it’s a virtual certainty that those lynchings were carried out by liberal Democrats. Since modern blacks vote 90-110% for liberal Democrats, I reckon they have gotten past this whole African slavery thingy.

So rather than an emotional threat, this is just a money-making publicity stunt.


68 posted on 02/27/2010 9:17:27 AM PST by fnord (497 and a half feet of rope? ... I just carry it.)
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To: DTogo

Maybe it was made out of sustainable hemp.


69 posted on 02/27/2010 9:17:55 AM PST by Crolis ("Nemo me impune lacessit!" - "No one provokes me with impunity!")
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To: freedumb2003
It means “leave or we will kill you.”

Then maybe they better leave.

70 posted on 02/27/2010 9:22:19 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Something is seriously wrong when the .gov plans to treat citizens worse than they treat terrorists)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Hate Crime Hoaxes

Claremont Hate Crime Called Hoax
LA Times (FR thread) | March 17. 2004 | Joy Buchanan, Kristina Sauerwein and Stuart Silverstein

A week after a reported campus hate crime drew national attention, sparked protests and shut down the prestigious Claremont Colleges, police on Wednesday called the incident a hoax staged by a professor who slashed tires, shattered windows and spray-painted racist graffiti on her own car.

Claremont McKenna College psychology professor Kerri Dunn, who had told police that her car was vandalized as she spoke at a March 9 forum on racism, was identified by two eyewitnesses as the person who damaged the auto, authorities said Wednesday.

Professor Kerri Dunn vandalized her own car and then led "Stop The Hate" rallies on campus.

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Other Recent "Hate Crime" Hoaxes:

Cops Say Gay Activist Scammed NJ College Into Pro-Homo Frenzy

Black Woman Admits Carving 'KKK' On Her Own Chest

FR Thread about miscellaneous other "hate crime" hoaxes

Black Firefighter Admits Placing Noose, Note

Cops: Student made up campus attack

71 posted on 02/27/2010 9:22:53 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Please ping me if this turns out to be yet another hoax so I can add it to my list.
Thanks.


72 posted on 02/27/2010 9:24:41 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The fake hate crimes keyword.
73 posted on 02/27/2010 9:26:48 AM PST by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
>>>>”Nooses were a sign of frontier justice in the old west”>>>

Absolutely I wonder how many white horse thieves were hanged compared to how many blacks? I'll becha lots more whites than blacks.

When I was in about 3rd grade a boy learned how to tie a noose. He taught the other boys and every venetian blind cord in the whole school had a noose hanging from it. This was during the time of segregated schools and it had nothing to do with blacks.

74 posted on 02/27/2010 9:30:09 AM PST by Ditter
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To: freedumb2003; rogue yam
The FACT is that a noose to a black person is a threat. It says “leave or we will kill you.” If you don’t like that or disagree with them having that reaction is irrelevant. That is the case and anyone who doesn’t know that is just so history-impaired that it is pointless having a discussion

I'm all for understanding other folks points of view; however, when black persons begin tying and planting nooses in order to make false claims of discrimination or harassment, I'd say the symbol has lost it's power to frighten them.

Just my two cents.

75 posted on 02/27/2010 9:31:48 AM PST by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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To: Joe Boucher

You will wish you had never said that


77 posted on 02/27/2010 9:48:48 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: freedumb2003

That is funny, WE do know history, we live in the west where a noose was a symbol of justice against thieves and murderers (and train robbers and horse thieves) and anything else that was against the law. I’m sure that a lot of whites were hanged unfairly, just like a lot of white women were burned at the stake for being “witches” but you don’t see white women running around getting all worked up every time there’s a bon fire set.


78 posted on 02/27/2010 10:00:49 AM PST by McGavin999
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To: freedumb2003
Up until the Civil Rights movement, black men accused of crimes (especially rape of white women) were frequently lynched by hanging.

How frequently?

79 posted on 02/27/2010 10:06:44 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.)
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To: freedumb2003
If it is a hoax, it is using a powerful symbol — up there with cross burning. I mean, how bad could a cross burning be, right? Or yellow stars put on a Jewish frat house

I can understand cross burning as offensive it was used primarily against blacks, I can understand a yellow star, it was used primarily against jews, but a noose? More white people have been hung down through the ages then blacks. If a noose should be considered a threat, then it should be considered a threat against whites.

80 posted on 02/27/2010 10:09:11 AM PST by McGavin999
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