Faked hate crimes - how low can you get?

[De Rigueur]

http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0, ... 97,00.html

"CLAREMONT - A Claremont McKenna psychology professor vandalized her own car last week and falsely reported the damages as a hate crime against her, police said Wednesday.

Kerri Dunn, who spoke at a free speech seminar March 9, reported to police after the lecture that her car had been vandalized - tires slashed, windows broken and spray painted with racial epithets. Police, however, say two witnesses have come forward claiming they saw Dunn vandalizing her own vehicle.

The incident prompted all five of the Claremont Colleges to cancel classes March 10 for teach-ins and rallies against hate crimes. More than 1,000 people attended an evening rally at Claremont McKenna, where students pushed for racial and ethnic tolerance and Dunn was one of the speakers."

What kind of person would do this? Her actions trivialize true hate crimes and the only risk she incurs is being charged with a misdomeanor of filing a false police report.

[Tyranny]

So hating yourself isn't a hate crime?

This is what gets me...

The incident prompted all five of the Claremont Colleges to cancel classes March 10 for teach-ins and rallies against hate crimes.

So some nut job goes out and vandalizes her own car and reports it as a hate crime and thats enough to deter the message that hate crimes are bad?

Get another speaker for cryin out loud and ban her from attending, but don't stop the message from getting out.

[De Rigueur]

So some nut job goes out and vandalizes her own car and reports it as a hate crime and thats enough to deter the message that hate crimes are bad?

What I was thinking of was that whenever a 'hate crime' is reported, people will be more inclined to think it's probably just a hoax.

[Dedman]

I have never understood the intent behind classifying a crime a "hate crime". it seems to me that doing so trivializes "regular crimes".

Oh, and that teacher is an idiot.

[Zuruck]

I can't remember a crime that was done for people liking each other. "Hi I like you, now bend over for my tank"

[DCrazy]

Maybe whenever a black guy hits a white guy it should be called a "love crime", because it's the exact opposite of a "hate crime", which is apparently defined as a white guy hitting/stabbing/punching/calling names at/glaring at/glancing at funnily/noticing the presence of a black man.

[bash]

Liberal overboard! Having been fed on (and no doubt feeding to her students) the fallacy of right-wing death squads preying on minorities, women, Jews, gays, blah, she apparently became impatient that the bogeyman had overlooked her and that was undermining her conspiracy-freak psychosis so she decided to invent a bogeyman herself to validate it. Pathetic. The truly frightening part is that she's a college psychology prof. Physician heal thyself!

[roid]

A Claremont McKenna psychology professor...

What kind of person would do this?

she should know, she's a psych. ironic yes

[Tyranny]

Not really, I'd get so fed up hearing about other peoples messed up heads I'd blow away my own, but thats me

Apparently trashing her own car and blaming it on some minority was her way

[De Rigueur]

And don't forget reporters:

"ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - USA Today said Friday that an examination of the work of journalist Jack Kelley found strong evidence that the newspaper's former star foreign correspondent had fabricated substantial portions of at least eight major stories."

Some people think that truth is just whatever you can get somebody to believe.

[Zuruck]

Holy Fack! I cannot believe bash just said liberal in a post on hate crimes. Jesus Christ, she's a stupid moron but now it's a liberal thing.

[bash]

...she's a stupid moron...

Z, she wasn't acting on some random impulse that overwhelmed her. There was method to her madness. If you cannot see the intent behind her stunt, the two of you have much in common.

[Fusion pimp]

Not too much in common, Bash.. She likely gets paid to be an idiot.

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