Color me surprised. I first read about this story through Gawker so I’ll stay with it through Gawker. A Louisiana woman claimed she was attacked and set on fire by three men wearing KKK hoods. Gawker reported this with a level of skepticism that allows for them to be plausibly deniable when they inevitably relayed:
The story of Sharmeka Moffitt, the 20-year-old from Winnsboro, Louisiana, who was allegedly set on fire by three hood-wearing men in a racially motivated attack, took a bizarre turn this afternoon after police announced at a press conference that they now believe she injured herself.
Moffitt suffered severe burns and remains at LSU Medical Center, where she is listed in critical condition.
According to Winnsboro Police Chief Lester Thomas, Moffitt confessed to setting herself on fire just after scrawling the words “KKK” and “nigger” on the hood of her Buick LaCross with toothpaste. Additionally, the State Police Crime Lab matched Moffitt’s fingerprints and DNA to a cigarette lighter found at the scene.
Moffitt’s motive remains unclear.
Unclear as a Rocky Mountain water stream.
I can’t even remember the last time a member of a minority group was legitimately attacked. It’s gotten to the point that every single prominent report of a person being attacked for being a minority should be automatically assumed to be a hoax. Instead of “black woman was attacked by three members of the KKK” the headline should be “black woman claims to have been attacked by three members of the KKK – is probably making it up.” Same with homosexuals who claim to have been targeted for their sexuality. And when the crime seems extremely heinous, perhaps carry an even greater assumption that it is a farce. Liberal-progressives are so afraid of committing a Type II error against a minority victim that they pretend that people don’t lie for attention.
Just to bring all of this full cirlce: Gawker also initially reported without skepticism that a lesbian woman named Charlie Rogers was attacked by three men who carved on her body and scrawled bigoted remarks on her garage wall and also tried to set her house on fire. Gawker bought her story. And then, of course, they reported on the hoax. Thus, fitting Ryan Holliday’s criticism of modern journalism’s pageview model, Gawker got double the pageviews out of one completely farcical news story, and they display no introspection over it. It’s maddening, I tell ya.
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I don’t think most whites have any desire to randomly attack a black person. The only way I could see myself getting angry enough at a black woman to want to hurt her, is if she hit me first. Otherwise, I play it cool with them, even when one of them has an attitude problem.
I’ve heard one person claim that the Moffitt incident is Bobby Jindal ‘s fault (evil Republicans!) because he trimmed the state’s mental health budget.
Moffitt was probably just fired from her call center job, raising 3 kids alone and 5 months behind on both rent and title loan car payment.
It seems like the only way to make it on Gawker is to be a ‘minority’ getting assaulted by multiple white people.
Lord knows we don’t have tons of other racial assaults going on that could use a little reportage. And guess what. None of it faked.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=black+gangs+attacking+whites&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
If they were introspective about it, they might even get three page views for each story. Win-win-win, right?
Hey, you forgot to mention that the negress also claimed that she was raped. Don’t know if that happened before or after the fire LOL.
Where is your negro chorus line today? Anti racist and the other congoid? They should be howling and squawking like spider monkeys. Sister!
I always enjoy how the “victim” invariably “scrawls” something derogatory somewhere. What is it with that? It’s always Tawana Brawley all over again when it comes to fake white crimes.
It’s also probably the only time the media gets to use the word “scrawl.” No wonder they love these stories.
Dude, is Gawker. GAWKER. Is a tabloid sewer filled with fuckwits.
Of course that they lie to get pageviews. They do anything to get pageviews.
white boy ryu your disrespect will carry a price. Anti-Racist is busy elsewhere which is why we are keeping a vigilant eye on him and debunking racists here in his absence. The post is nonsense because Justice is still in Progress.
Obsidian, you need two alts to troll this site. Grow up.
niggloids are an abomination & cancer of the globe
Here’s Salon.com on the hoax:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/louisiana_woman_set_self_on_fire_wrote_kkk_on_own_car/
And here’s the “teachable moment”:
“While many questions remain over the incident and possible motives, the original reports of a hate crime did nonetheless confirm a recognition of persistent racism in the state. As Salon noted Tuesday, Otis Chisley, president of the local branch of the NAACP, said racism remained “prevalent throughout Louisiana”; his statement, and the extent with which a hate crime seemed plausible, remain important aspects of this shocking story.”
In other words, the real story isn’t some psychotic black woman, it’s those many evil racists who COULD have done such a thing. So now racist white people are being criticized for POSSIBLY existing!
There is absolutely no reason to think that we will not continue to see this phenomenon. Because it is a way in which the radical “black” liberationist can attempt to maximize the autonomy of the radical “black” collective thus maximizing his personal autonomy then the matter becomes one of consequence.
No consequence = radical “black” autonomy.
Consequence = ???
All liberationists are guilty until proven truthful.
@needname
“So now white people are being criticized for POSSIBLY existing!”
Fixed that for you
again chuck why do you not IP ban the trolls?
Of course, any REAL consequence — aimed exclusively at the idea that the radical “black” collective must have its autonomy curtailed — has to be initiated by white man and it cannot be initiated by liberal “white” male and it will not be intiated by blacks at all.
I love trolls. Bring them on.
Any “man” who can’t handle trolls had better fly off to heaven or candyland or that big rational libertarian paradise in the sky. This is the real world and life is a contact sport. If you’re worried about ruining your manicure, get out of the way.
It’s not a matter of concern about our manicures. It’s simply the fact that they add nothing to the discussion (unless they’re clever, which PJ and AR are not). It is not up to me to define the purpose of the comments section on this site, but if it were, I would choose to define it in a way that excludes the most idiotic, derailing forms of trolling. I would do so because my implicit goal would be to foster good discussions, which do not includes conversations by trolls and about trolls.
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Ugh. Anyone who allows their attentions to be diverted is mentally weak anyway. It’s called focus. Educated people are reputed to have been able to focus once upon a time.
I am not here or anywhere else to drink a fine wine, have a cigar and to discuss the angels in heaven. We will leave that to the respectable conservatives, herbs, and the libertarians. I want the savages, the barbarians, the animals who will rip, tear and destroy to get what they want. Hunger! Desire! Do you know what it means to want something?
You guys should be ashamed. You ought to know better. At least half of you have some idea of PU and game. You tell me who gets laid, and writ large, who inherits the Earth.
These racial hoaxes seem to be becoming more common, The first one I ever heard of was the Tawana Brawley case back in the 80′s, and at the time, NO ONE thought it was fake. I mean, who would carve into their skin and smear shit on themselves?
Now of course, it seems to happen every few months. Although I am sure there are real racial attacks, it seems that the more outrageous it is, the more likely it’s fake. And of course, if it takes place on a college campus, it’s fake, no question.
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“I can’t even remember the last time a member of a minority group was legitimately attacked.” Well, there was a massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in August, and the perpetrator was white. It was probably a genuine racist hate crime. But – yes, fake hate crimes are an epidemic. I’m compiling a list.
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