Desperately Seeking Hate Crimes
It used to be that knowledge was power.
On college campuses these days, grievance is power. In fact, grievance become a kind of religion, especially in how it leads to the shoving aside of any possibility for rational examination and thought.
Grievance-hunting leads to accusations, and accusations -- of racism, anti-feminist thought, to name a few -- have become a handy way to have unearned power over others...typically, men, and most typically white men...but sometimes, over a whole university population.
Grievance-hunting is also a way for an otherwise un-noteworthy individual to become noteworthy -- through their "oppression."
For example...
Colin Flaherty writes at American Thinker:
When the black studies student saw a piece of string in a tree, she did what any self-respecting black studies student would do: shriek racism.The string looked like rope. And rope means lynching. And that meant within a few minutes of this Tuesday night discovery on the campus of the University of Delaware, the entire university community from the acting president on down was in a full hate-crime panic.
...The acting president called for a rally to condemn the atrocity.
Then students started to wake up. And many knew the rope was not a rope, but a string. And the noose was not a noose.
And the act was not a hate crime. Or even a fake hate crime.
It was just string that held up a paper lantern -- left over from an alumni party in June.
But none of that mattered. The anti-string, anti-hate crime rally went on, as scheduled.
The president did not apologize for perpetrating the hate crime hoax. Instead, she threw the university police under the bus for not figuring it out, then condemned the hate crime which had not happened, if it had happened, which it had not.
More from DelawareOnline.
Previously at U of Delaware: "Please Report to Your Resident Assistant to Discuss Your Sexual Identity--It's Mandatory! Thought Reform at the University of Delaware"
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Something like this happened at work, and we were all informed that possession of a knot was a dismissible offense.
To put this in perspective - if I have a gun at work at the same location, I could get a second chance.
I cannot wait for the next time this happens - at a facility where the majority of workers is black, and wages are high - so that I can express my outrage that I am targeted for being of Irish descent: the British perpetrated all manner of atrocities upon my people farther back than anyone shipped people from Africa.
What?
Radwaste at September 26, 2015 8:41 AM
In the movie Taps cadets at a military school absorbed all too well their instruction in strict honor, loyalty, and obedience, refusing to vacate the school when it was shut down and provoking an armed confrontation that gets young students killed. The couldn't see when they'd gone too far.
Without a moderating voice, young minds absorb these lessons all too eagerly.
These RAs being turned loose with their militant political correctness training and inability to see when things have gone to far remind me of those cadets in the movie.
The professors helpiing them are supposed to supply the moderating voice. They're supposed to be able to see when things have gone to far.
With our own hates and fears, we're turning our children into extremists. We're the adults. We're suppose to supply the moderating voice of reason in their lives.
Conan the Grammarian at September 26, 2015 9:27 AM
so that I can express my outrage that I am targeted for being of Irish descent: the British perpetrated all manner of atrocities upon my people farther back than anyone shipped people from Africa.
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And, as I'm sure you know, in the 17th century, some Irish (and maybe some non-Irish political prisoners as well) were sold into slavery in the Caribbean. There's at least one movie about that: "Captain Blood," with Errol Flynn. You can read more about that slave trade in "White Cargo" (not to be confused with the Stuart Woods thriller).
lenona at September 26, 2015 10:10 AM
In fact, grievance [has] become a kind of religion, especially in how it leads to the shoving aside of any possibility for rational examination and thought.
Many thanks Amy, I'm planning on stealing this!
Blue Crab at September 26, 2015 11:51 AM
Going a little off topic; but, when every where some one sees "hate crime" then no where is there hate crime.
In other words, crying wolf all the time means the villagers ignore the real wolf when it does come.
charles at September 26, 2015 8:01 PM
Yes, I am descended from some of those same Irish, sold into slavery in the late 1600s to Barbados, escaping or getting freed (it is unclear) a few years later to head to Baltimore.
NicoleK at September 27, 2015 6:27 AM
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