Update: By the way, you can tell a lot by updates at the top of the page versus updates at the bottom of the page. Steve Sailer links to a Guardian article (damn Brits out reporting us on our own turf again) in which an Oberlin police lieutenant suggested that the person who reported seeing someone in a KKK garment was “mistaken”. The paper also reports that the people responsible for previous incidents had been caught and were being dealt with. No indication was given as to whether or not those were hoaxes.
The world’s most famous Oberlin alum may have fallen for the world’s most common hoax.
Oberlin College cancelled classes today after someone wearing KKK regalia was spotted near the school’s Afrikan Heritage House. This follows on the heels of recent incidents of anti-Semitic and racist graffiti. Maybe these are legitimate cases, but there is too much of a history of hate crime hoaxes to just go pretending that there isn’t a really good chance that this is all made up. It’s funny when you think that Oberlin students and liberals in general tend to celebrate their religious ‘skepticism’.
The eyewitness claims to have seen someone dressed in the garb at about 1:30 in the morning. You figure that’s an important part of the story and would maybe cause journalists to ask questions about the legitimacy of the claim. Nah. Every major outlet has only focused on the KKK and Oberlin’s decision to cancel classes. Gawker’s Max Read runs with an update to the story that leads us to believe that the hoax will be exposed in short order:
Update: According to a person with access to the faculty mailing list, faculty members had been told—”unofficially,” (i.e., not through official channels)—that “the investigation into this incident was dropped when it was discovered that the person responsible was someone within the MRC [the Multicultural Resource Center], who would be disciplined internally”; according to conversations with other members of the Oberlin community, this appears to be a widespread, and widely-believed, rumor. (The same source, who asked to remain anonymous, claims that the MRC, whose former director, Eric Estes, is now the Dean of Students, has been criticized for the amount of student college money it receives, and that its leadership has “had trouble justifying how many campus coordinators they have on staff.”)
Now, Gawker and the left media in general can’t really be trusted so we have no idea to what extent they checked this source’s claims. Copy of an email? A call to other faculty? Who knows. Maybe that source is a hoaxster too. Read says he has received a lot of rumors but that none are reportable. But if that email is based on fact – if this was just yet another false flag operation taking advantage of the kneejerk response mechanism of wacky liberals – then we’re seeing Oberlin College’s multiculturalists taking a page from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC also can’t fight the KKK anymore since the KKK barely exists in this country. But the SPLC does thrive partly on the belief that the KKK is still thriving in this country. Oberlin students and townies also seem to believe the same. All of these PC entities could adopt any number of tactics to make themselves useful: drumming up hate crimes, making pick-up artists seem like threats, and by increasing the net of what is considered racist to include people who don’t preach hate of any sort.
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lol @ cancelling classes over this type of thing
oh, my.
Mr. Piggy, your gravatar hero supports gay mariage.
Do you????
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0302/Clint-Eastwood-and-gay-marriage-Political-tipping-point-for-conservatives
I must have missed the part where this post was about gay marriage. Just like false rape accusations, we need to start punishing the perps the same as what we would if the “correct” person committed a crime
This is starting to remind me of the “South Park” Halloween episode where Cartman’s ghost costume is a white bedsheet, and every time Chef sees him Chef scurries away scared.
Let’s see, the KK outfit is basically white bedsheets. Hmmm, your average toga party fratboy could also be wearing white bedsheets. At 1:30 in the morning, which sounds more plausible?
Matt, the only flaw I see in that argument is that I’m not so sure that Oberlin allows (sexist) fraternities.
I initially thought the odds of this being a hoax were 50/50. With the new rumors, I’d leaning towards 75/25 hoax.
LOL. They’s coming ta lynch me!
I’d bet 10 ounces of silver this is a negro or jew.
I was leaning 99/1 hoax. The one percent chance of it being done by a white man would involve a drunken prank rather than intimidation. I pegged the odds of it being organized racism at zero.
Ahhh, the KKK! An enemy so useful to the Left that if it didn’t exist, they would have to invent it. Which for the past 50 years is exactly what they’ve done.
Even if a Klansman was walking around campus, I don’t understand why classes would need to be cancelled. Whoever made that decision, probably the president, looks silly.
Libs crave to see themselves as plucky resistance fighters, bearers of light amidst the darkness. See Lens Dunham’s melodramatic tweet – an actress playing the role of brave dissident in the valley of death.
In reality, such a description better suits us.
Anything for a day off.
Heh. This brouhaha is something else for the anti-HBD concern trolls (“oh, but what good do your beliefs do?”) to chew on. Once again, HBDers swiftly assessed the situation, correctly identified what was going on, why it was going on, and accurately predicted how it would play out.
Meanwhile, the L. Dunham Blue Pill types were doubling down on their childish gullibility and very public attempts to narcissistically be a Victim by Association.
Just another example of how HBD helps you understand the world and what’s going on in it – you can see why Blue Pillers get so angry and hostile…the world keeps refusing to follow their script and all they can do is ratchet up the rhetoric.
You work with her down at the Garden? I had the beef tortelloni and breadsticks yesterday and it was pretty good. Waitress was not pregnant and also not cute, lol.
Maybe it’s because I went to an inexpensive urban commuter school focused on STEM degrees where the average freshman was late 20s to early 30s with a full time job that the idea of cancelling classes because someone thought they saw a person in Klan garb is abso-fucking-lutely ridiculous to me. Half the vehicles in the engineering building parking lot had guns in the glove compartments too OMG!
Someone probably had a test that day.
@FWG: Right, like a bomb scare, get out of class by making up a KKK-sighting.
KKK will be taking the hats and masks off in Tennessee the last of March. They wear them to protect their families. We pray their families are safe. No KKK is at that school to hurt those kids, they are out there protecting kids not hurting them. That was not a real klansman they saw, if the even saw anyone. They wanted a day off.
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Lena Dunham is dumbham. Because actually Oberlin is very exclusive, and to the extent that it is “inclusive” it’s to the disadvantage of mainly a group of people about whom no more will be said. Except that they look a lot like Lena Dumbham. Except the men.