Kicking. Squealing.
(Addendum: Just for fun, Gawker reports on this too. Comments there should be fun as someone there quickly pointed out that anyone who felt that the case was a hoax when the story was initially reported last month were summarily shouted down. Takeaway: the instincts of liberals are shot – kaput – like the hair follicles of a Real Housewife. Liberalism is a rebellion against instinct.)
My instincts on this story out of Lincoln, Nebraska have panned out. A lesbian woman falsely claimed that three men attacked her, cut bigoted words into her skin, and lit her house on fire. Vigils were held; PayPal accounts were set up; outrage was expressed. But the first giveaway is this: what would motivate three men to attack a lesbian woman in such a way? Even homophobic men don’t typically hate lesbians so strongly. People who are so angry that they would actually carve something in a person’s body are also not likely to leave any loose ends.
Below is a joint statement released by several groups that rallied around the false accuser, 33 year-old Charlie Rogers. You notice that the groups state up front that hate crimes do happen when what should be said first is that this woman lied and her actions should be condemned. And then it’s just more advocacy for gays and lesbians. A professor involved in the activism of this case (before it was found that the woman made a false claim) told me over the phone that she (or he; not to snark, I just couldn’t tell which gender/sex this person was) was told by police that 99% of crime reports are not fabricated and that there is not a pattern of homosexuals to make false reports. To ask is to answer, though.
Here’s the press release; watch the obfuscation and cover-seeking:
Over the past few weeks, law enforcement has been very forthcoming in providing information to leaders of Lincoln’s gay and transgender community. They recently discussed with our organizations the evidence and corresponding analysis in this case. We appreciate their openness during this process.
Law enforcement has reiterated that serious hate crimes do happen in Lincoln. These crimes devastate the very fabric of every community in Lincoln. They cause people to turn their heads over their shoulder in fear. Any allegation of crime or violence motivated by hate deserves the most serious investigation by law enforcement. By working with the FBI and multiple independent analysts, we are confident that this crime has received a balanced and thorough investigation.We encourage anyone who has been a victim of a hate crime to contact law enforcement. Our recent experience gives us confidence that any crime in Lincoln will be thoroughly and fairly investigated.
In this instance, the complaint was determined to be a false report. The false reports received by law enforcement every year do not invalidate the actual crimes that are committed and investigated by law enforcement in Lincoln.
It is important not to focus on the actions of any single individual. As residents of Lincoln we must continue to bring our community together to declare that violence and hate are not the values of our city. We have come together to say that we will care for those in need. We must not forget what our city is capable of when we join together in one voice.
Many people in Lincoln, not just those who are gay or transgender, will continue to have many questions, mixed emotions and confusion. If you need support, the websites below will be updating with information about support opportunities in the near future
The professional hate-watchers over at the SPLC fell for it too. Laird Wilcox really needs to publish an updated edition of Crying Wolf.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48737598/ns/us_news/
Good news. Hopefully. white men will be barred from joining the armed services
http://seamusoriley.blogspot.com/2012/08/crime-wire-charlie-rogers-fake-hate-hoax.html
This was a month ago that the analysis was submitted to police.
Good news. Hopefully. white men will be barred from joining the armed services
Yes, since blacks perform sooooo well in organized units.
“Hate crime” is such an absurd term. As opposed to a “love crime”.
Seriously, does anyone actually believe that three white men assaulting and maiming a lesbian is worse than three white men assaulting and maiming another white man?
Yes, cultural Marxists do.
Well, it was so over the top, anyone with his eyes open could read it. Carving words into her skin? Burning down her house? Please.
However….do you apply this idea everywhere?
Like boiling down babies to make soap? Gassing people to death with lice killer? Skin lampshades?
These things are outlandish. But most people swallow the holohoax fable hook, line and sinker. They do it for the same reason as they believe the poor dyke – 1) she’s an eternal vicim, and 2) it doesn’t require any thought.
So true Ryu!
Seriously, does anyone actually believe that three white men assaulting and maiming a lesbian is worse than three white men assaulting and maiming another white man?
Lipstick or diesel?
So, were the words carved into her skin in a place she could easily reach, and easily read? I knew this was a hoax, it was so Tawana Brawlish.
Anti-Racist is actually being somewhat quiet.
Being pwned and called out for the racist, genocidal trollbot he is seems to have quieted the robotic instincts somewhat.
But back to issues, Chuck is correct: the attack was obviously faked. A shockingly large number of faddish hate crimes are faked; there’s been quite a list, recently. Whether they’re trafficking “victims”, advocates for Muslims who face (actually) very little public pressure in the US and against whom there are almost no hate crimes (while Muslim hate crimes, usually involving killing or voiced wishes to kill, are nearly ubiquitous), or hate crimes leveled against other favored groups (blacks, … of course, discounting the white on black violence that seems to be racially motivated, and far worse than white on black violence ever was in the 1940′s), … the result seems to be the same.
The liberal left needs to invent “heroes and victims” for its pet causes. The people on that side of the debate see no trouble. If one story is faked, all of the other stories must be true, right?
Whenever I hear about some Muslim girl beaten by evil white Christians, my gut instinct tells me the story is almost guaranteed to be faked. And lo, in every case, it almost always is. Often, in fact, the perpetrator was Muslim. A father or mother or family killing a daughter, or some inter-ethnic dispute, for which Whitey can be blamed.
What saddens me is hat even when the story turns out to be a fake, the guilty white media always fall back on the “But we should still feel guilty about, … something” angle.
Whatever props up the bloated, rotting carcass of PC victimhood strata.
These small time hoaxes are getting more ridiculous and beyond parody. They won’t stop just as false accusations against any person of fame will not stop. Lies typed as truth on page one, truth hushed up in small font on page ten.
Ryu, I dont want to start a Holocaust debate and don’t normally go down that road, but I just spent a week hanging with my living WW2 vet grampa. He even discussed how he could smell burning bodies from miles away, which he knew the smell of since he had seen charred soldiers earlier in the war. Both my grandfathers served in Europe and both witnessed the actual camps, the smells, the sounds and the emaciated survivors left. My grandfathers wouldnt lie about it. If it is all a hoax to trick the victorious Western nations into believing it for Jewish gain as a forever protected victim group (but for none of the other 6 mil victims of the Nazis), then no one stands a chance against evil geniuses like them.
That’s OK. I’ll start it. This holocaust is THE most important story in the world. It demonstrates the tremendous power of the media. 60+ years of unending propaganda.
Spielberg put out a holycost movie in 1991 called The Liberators. It was about a group of negro soldiers who liberated some jews. Sworn testimonies, Denzel Washington, pictures, artifacts, the works, metals were awarded. .
The movie was a complete and total falsehood. There were no black units there. History has forgotten this small lie – the movie was impossible to find after exposed. It did win several awards though, before.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n3p-4_Staff.html
Seems that a group of black combat engineers mutinied in Australia
Looks like Patton was right to doubt their abilities.
Burning down the house… I blame the talking heads.
ryu,
it’s not the same thing. you’re comparing a massive historical event to one single incident. not even the most vocal holocaust deniers believe that no jews were gassed. seems that most believe that the number killed were an order of magnitude lower than the commonly cited figure. so that’s not a hoax in the same way that the lesbian’s fabrication is. the goal is to build up sympathy for the cause, yes, but these two different “cases” have very different starting points.
Hispanic female accused of a hate crime.
Seems blacks and hispanics don’t get on.
The professor says gay people don’t have a history of making up crimes. If women are more likely to, however, then she wold fit in that category.
John Scalzi should be thanked for giving us the tools to throw off the yoke of PC oppression!
In Scalzi’s words:
Fudge packers, Acknowledge that you don’t get to define other people’s comfort level with your creepy behavior.
African Americans, Acknowledge that you don’t get to define other people’s comfort level with your creepy behavior.
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I think the Holocaust happened too (just like I think the Holodomor happened) but the “smell of burning bodies” could have ben a result of the Allied air raids that continued right up to the end of the war. I’m no expert , but I’ve read maybe a half dozen books on the subject. and the mainstream literature states that all the Death Camps were in areas .liberated by the Soviets and the camps in the West were concentration camps that didn’t have any gas chambers. I have no doubt that the German concentration camps (again, not referring to Death Camps) were bad but the death rates were pretty high also for Brit concentration camps during the Boer War and American concentration camps during the Filipino-American War.
I wonder if a legitimate “hate crime” has ever been committed by a white male heterosexual (the obvious target group of the witch hunters) in Lincoln in the entire era since that term has come into vogue. I’m very dubious.
“It is important not to focus on the actions of any single individual” Awesome! So if it is a genuine hate crime, it is cosmically symbolic, but if it is a hoax, then oh well, just a minor thing emblematic of nothing at all. Just like the Duke Lacrosse case, and just like what your high maintenance ex-girlfriend always said: even if I’m wrong, I’m right.
I’m surprised that this post is uncategorized. Surely you have a category for it, a good Roissyism like “trainwreck” or “Goodbye, America”?
@icr – I am often disgusted by the volume of Holocaust documentaries on Netflix and Hollywood movies while the Gulag system of Russia never has had a solid documentary that was well publicized. I won’t even touch on Pol Pot or Mao, but the Gulag system would make a great doc. Maybe that’s a kickstarter project I could try. It’s sad to say, but I do think it has to do with the make up of Hollywood producers. They were pinkos in the old days, and they were victims of the Nazis. makes sense to focus on one and skip over the other.
First rule of liberalism, never admit you are wrong.
The reason the gulag system and the massive butchering that the Communists went on aren’t talked about is because the left then, and now, was extremely tolerant of abuses by the Communist governments. Some felt betrayed by the Soviet Union and its abuses, actually more like almost-genocide, but the left, generally, as self-righteous as it is, can’t bring itself to criticize murderous left-wing dictators – only right-wing ones.
Serious communist-led mass killings were; The holodomor (Ukraine), the mass executions and exiles of Soviet citizens (many of specific ethnicities),which were many and on the order of Genghis Khan, the raping and pillaging of tibet, and the replacement of its people with Han Chinese, ditto in Xinjiang, and possibly in Inner Mongolia, though the Mongols there just seem to have given up, more or less, and have accepted their fate, … The killing field sof Cambodia, where it took the Vietnamese Communists to roust the Chinese-allied butchers who turned skulls into that country’s currency for a decade, actually the communists were pretty wretched all over Southeast Asia –
And then the Shining Path in Peru – not a government but among the most brutal terrorist organizations on Earth, or in history; … the list goes on.
None of these groups are adequately criticized by the left. In fact, many are outright defended by them. “Oppression light” is how I’d describe Cuba, but for the left to champion the betraying revolutionaries there is the very height of hypocrisy:Castro is Pinochet on the left. And yet, of course, he’s supposed to be a hero.
The point is: The “Left” doesn’t care about human rights, at all. It’s never been a concern. it doesn’t care about massacres or genocide, except to use it to attack its enemies and gain moral superiority. By and large, the left shows its true colors when it champions virulently racist policies in order to fight racism, ignores massive abuses in order to defend ideological allies, and shows extremely selective memory when it deals with history.
In fact: The Holocaust was pretty bad. I would put the mass slaughters of the Armenians and the butchery in Rwanda at the same level: These were attempts to eradicate a whole people.
The Societs were just mass murders; they wanted total control over people, but getting rid of whole ethnicities a priori wasn’t their deal. Sometimes, yes, but they were half-hearted about it, and not ideologically driven. Mass killings that happened to coincide with ethnic labels, yes. Deliberate targeting of, say, non-Russians? … not so much. Mass murder of more or less everyone? Absolutely.
The Chinese are similar, though they’ve tried hard to play the “nice majority” for ethnic policies, as a rule. Not always successfully, and they’re up against serious Han Chinese Superiority complexes.
But if you look at the Left, it now abhors the Holocaust, because most of the left is rabidly anti-semitic. It’s the left, now, that bleeds Jew-hatred. Scandinavia is a hotbed of Nazi-era level Jew baiting, ironically, given its history.
Most of this is the result of the near-sanctified worship of Islam and Muslim extremism in the Left. Muslims can only be victims. If they scream for the blood of Jews and call for the extermination of non-Muslims, burn Copts out of their houses, and seem bent on pillage and rape, … that’s “understandable”, given “how evil the west is”.
Basically, the Holocaust is no longer fashionable as a “bad event” on the Left, because the victims were Jews. Because of this marriage with Islamofascism, and the reinvigoration of the anti-wealth negative stereotypes of Jews on the Left, Jews are now the Big Bad Guys and are acceptable as the most easy targets of any racism or discrimination leveled against them.
So you’ll very, very rarely find Leftists post- 1990 saying anything about the Holocaust, or recalling it; because Jews are Evil Monsters In Human Disguise.
Certainly, the Muslims agree, and as sainted victims, they can’t be wrong, can they?
(And the vitriolic anti-semitism in the Black community in the US, of course, has nothing to do with this).
In short: If you’re looking for competent, rational, fair thought from anyone on the Left, good luck.
I’m not saying the right is any better. But they’re at least not so self-righteous any more.
It is very much the pattern of “victims” to make false reports.
Okay, I’ll step into it.
The gas chambers at Dachau you see in those pictures were for delousing. Those showers at Auschwitz weren’t gas chambers. Now, does this preclude some sick sadist camp guards gassing people in the delousing chambers? No, and I’m sure it happened. But on the scale that’s mentioned, not even possible. Did a horrible number of people die and get cremated? Also surely true in camps full of diseased, starving people given the Reich’s first priority of feeding an army in a multi-theater war.
All of it’s sick and immoral, but history has set the bar quite high for atrocity. There is a lot riding on the narrative that the Nazi regime, among all the bloodthirsty regimes in history, was uniquely vile.
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