Well, if they’d had that rally, my concern would be that very, very few gays molest children as a whole, and such rallies might cause people to discriminate against the non-child-molesting gay majority.
I don’t think there’s a similar concern about people seeing a rally against Klan racism, and going out and treating non-racist Klansmen badly.
Oh, they’re not always liberals. I’m still waiting to see what this is intended to prove, if anything- the suspense is killing me.
Of course they did. Earlier I gave names/locations of a couple dozen similar incidents. In a lot of them, the exact same claim was made - “yes, I hoaxed, but I just wanted to bring attention to other incidents”. Yeah right.
Hoaxers hoax. Then they lie when caught. Then people like GIGObuster, since it fits their worldview of “racists everywhere”, buy the lies.
Wow. You found one. I found dozens. I guess you win.
But the hoaxters in the current case didn’t say that, did they?
And, lastly, I’m amused by your continued assertions that, because the people who put up the posters were (maybe) left wing, then they can’t possibly be racist.
I’m torn between arguing against something that’s clearly ridiculous, and sitting back and enjoying watching you continuously score goals against your own side.
I have no idea who knew what when obviously.
People get hysterical about hoaxes often enough don’t they? It’s in the nature of hoaxes to be more upsetting than reality, because a hoax is designed to get our attention. Thus, the person pretending to be dying of cancer will be the foster mother of ten disabled kids and about to be evicted, rather than the biological mother of an unruly teenager having trouble making the mortgage on a McMansion.
I will confess to having carried out a hoax of sorts when I was a teenager. A good friend and I had a mutual friend who was gay and was treated badly by students and teachers (this was in the 70s). The gay friend wasn’t even really out, it was just that his manner, voice and interests were perceived as effeminate. He was insulted openly by some students, physically pushed around by others, and things that happened to him were dismissed or rationalized by the administration. His parents were not sympathetic and he was (correctly) afraid that if he complained matters would only get worse.
So my pal and I decided that we would pretend to be gay ourselves. We didn’t violate any school rules–we held hands when we walked down the hallways, called each other by endearments, floated rumors that we were going steady. It created a three-day furor, quite a lot of trouble really (including a brief suspension from school for my friend and I) but guess what? Things got a little better for our gay friend.
So how wrong were we? I am aware that we were presumptuous and obnoxious, also quite dishonest, but ethically were we 100% at fault?
I know there are plenty of places in the country, both in virtual and meat space, in which ignorance is held up as a sort of virtue.
Must you attempt to drag the SDMB into their midst?
Yes. Crying wolf = bad. Me no like bad. You no like bad, also. That is good.
But me no sure that they really did crying wolf. Me not convinced.
Miller, read up on the frightened reaction on campus when someone reported seeing a Klansman (which turned out to have been a false alarm). These incidents had the campus freaked out. An Oberlin professor friend of mine reports that she had students whose work was affected all semester.
The campus police could have assuaged some of this fear by announcing that they had identified the perpetrators, that they had been turned over to the school for action, and that there did not appear to be any risk of future incidents or elevation into violence.
It’s a natural reaction, for many people, to rally around the institution and to say, “trust the police.” Here, though, it’s hard to see what interest was served by their lack of transparency, and relatively easy to see the harm.
And when posters like you post ridiculous insults that miss the point, it is not my problem.
Both the school and the perpetrators reported that there were early incidents that the hoaxers did not commit.
If you want to act as if the lies of omission the sources you depend for information are OK, then it is not me who has a problem.
“I’m doing it as a joke to see the college overreact to it as they have with the other racial postings that have been posted on campus,” he told campus cops.
Both Bleier and Alden then denied having anything to do with the previous postings around the school.
I’m not sure any of these got as much attention as Todd’s, but yes, you did a bunch of these over the last decade or more. Fill in the blank: this supports my view that ___________.
Somehow Terr started saying the things he thinks the liberals should be saying.
Just wondering what it is about liberals/gays/African Americans that causes them to (disproportionately) perpetrate such hoaxes…
I think you misunderstood the nature of his post. It sounded to me like he was apologizing for misunderstanding what you wrote in a lighthearted manner, not seriously criticizing you for talking above him.
Joking to get a reaction. Doesn’t tie in to the others.
Well, a little of column A, a little of column B.
Bricker, in the language of my people, “grunt grunt scratch belch.”
That means “Thank you.”
As fas as you know.
When I was in school at my ultra-liberal small liberal arts college I made huge banners and taped them up around the student union/cafeteria quoting the radical lesbian feminist Mary Daly. It made a huge ruckus, and I was very pleased with effect I created.
Once you’ve completed your rigorous scientific Google we’ll go over the data together.
They are not held to the strict standards of non-biased candor demanded of such paragons of truth as Breitbart, Daily Caller and the delightful Ms. Malkin.
By the by, you offered twenty four separate names and places, and gave cites for four. I and others have asked where you got them, and so far, you seem to be reluctant to divulge. Why is that? Why do you post four cites and then invite the reader to do your homework for you? Is there something embarrassing about your source? More embarrassing than Michelle Malkin? Man, that would be some serious embarrassment!
At any rate, I think you need not worry too much about liberal college kids and their opinions, or even “liberals/gays/African Americans”, as Republcian/straight/white man are doing their level best all across our great nation to ensure that they have no actual influence by way of voting. You are welcome to whatever pride that affords you.
If so, I certainly apologize.