03/07/2008
I was reading Jonah Goldberg’s new book, Liberal Fascism, and it reminded me that the 1969 takeover of Willard Straight Hall by armed black militants at Cornell was based on a fake hate crime — a cross had been burned in front of a black dormitory — by black militants themselves.
For example, supposedly the militants got guns to defend themselves after a cross was burned in front of one of the black dormitories and a brick was thrown through one of the windows of another. Now, decades later, it comes out that these were acts committed by the militants themselves to win campus sympathy — a foretaste of the Tawana Brawley hoax of later vintage.[The Day Cornell Died, By Thomas Sowell, Hoover Digest, 1999]
Since that time there have been a lot of fake hate crimes, to the point where it’s the first thing I suspect in cases like the Columbia Professor who said she found a noose on her door..Sowell’s article is worth reading in full.
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