Looking back at hate crime hoaxes with hindsight, one wonders how anyone could have been naive enough to believe such a thing.
Would investigators believe that actor Jussie Smollett would stumble upon just two Trump supporters on a cold winter night in the deep blue streets of Chicago? Would a career NASCAR garage owner believe that the pulley on driver Bubba Wallace’s dock door was actually a noose?
The source of hate crime myths is often not ignorance, but pure, utter cynicism. We have built a system that empowers liars and punishes those with the power to stand up against them.
The Daily Caller’s new documentary, “Demands Hate,” exposes how we’ve created a society that privileges people who are ruthlessly inventing hate crimes to bolster their own reputations. What began with building affirmative action infrastructure on college campuses has now spilled over into the real world.
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From “hands up, don’t shoot” to “this is MAGA country,” hate crime hoaxes have become a common part of American life. Race relations have improved greatly over the past few decades, and the United States is The least racist While countries around the world are stoking racism, hate crime hoaxes reinforce the opposite idea: that our country is a hopelessly racist country in need of fundamental change. So to gain support for their radical political agenda, the left has no choice but to invent the “hatred” they claim to fight.
The ideas behind these “institutional changes” have their roots in long-winded arguments from the far left of American academia. Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell laid the foundations of critical race theory in the 1980s, arguing that racism is silently built into all of America’s institutions, that is, into the “institutions” themselves. His student Kimberlé Crenshaw expanded this framework with the notion of “intersectionality,” according to which different minority groups face overlapping layers of oppression. Pseudo-scholars like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo have taken these esoteric theories and repackaged them to sell “anti-racism” to the masses.
It’s no wonder most hate crime pranks happen on college campuses, according to political scientist Wilfred Riley, who tracks hate crime pranks across the US and told Daily Caller investigators that two-thirds of the incidents he sees happen on campuses.
“This campus is a unique environment in that there’s so much support for this kind of activity,” Riley explains. “There’s an infrastructure in place to support it.”
And it’s not just radical professors.
Universities are filled with administrators whose sole mission is to root out so-called bigotry. The higher-ups are risk-averse. They say the right things to keep the peace and boost enrollment. And they have diversity officers who have built their careers on fighting discrimination. So if they don’t find hate, they don’t get paid.
There are also countless student groups that have come together around identity affinities or left-wing ideals. Their primary motivation is to advance the interests of their own group, which often intersect along the same ideological lines. As Riley points out, the Black Student Union encompasses a large proportion of black students and exercises influence on behalf of those who declare themselves victims of hate. Because of intersectionality, other “oppressed groups” will also participate.
And then there are the others, who may be just your average, typical American college student who isn’t particularly political, but who know how things work on campus and that if they stick their neck out, they’ll get their head chopped off by a mob.
In both cases, the truth gets lost in the story.
For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that these radical young people would drop out of college, get their first job, and adapt to “the real world.” But in fact, the opposite was true: they adapted the “real world” to them.
“You’re seeing the impact on leaders and decision-makers — judges, district attorneys, jury foremen,” Riley explains. In an environment that’s “clearly becoming increasingly hostile, where people have at least access to the media, and where there’s the potential for physical violence,” giving in to the mob is the easy decision.
This is why an unbelievable hate crime hoax can escalate into a national crisis. When your career is on the line, when the media is trying to tarnish your reputation, when mobs are at your doorstep and threatening to burn down your community, it’s an easy decision to close your eyes and pretend not to see the truth. But when we all do that, society forgets what the words themselves mean.
We live on a college campus where few are willing to tell us the truth — not politicians, not journalists, certainly not the educators who entrust their young people to our care. But at The Daily Caller, we’re committed to covering the stories no one will talk about, and to pursuing the truth wherever it may lead.
Watch “Demand for Hate” now to learn how America’s leaders have empowered the worst people — and how good people are starting to stand up to them.
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