Well, maybe so. But let’s not let a little political theater distract from the inherent truthiness, namely, that each day in the US, 50000 gay men and women are beaten, abused, mocked, drawn and quartered, and beheaded (all while looking fabulous!) — and the bulk of this abuse comes from filthy intolerant teabagging Christers.
A college student who complained about receiving anti-gay notes, has admitted to police that she wrote them herself.
“It’s disgusting,” said Venus Ferrabelo
“That angers me a little, I don’t know what to make it,” said Alex Rodriguez.
Many on the CCSU campus are just stunned by the arrest of a gay student. Lexi Pennell told police she was the target of hate.
In March, she said someone had been slipping nasty, threatening notes under her dorm door in Beecher Hall, and writing them on her white board because she was gay.
“We received a couple of notes with derogatory notes on them that were directed toward our sexual orientation,” Pennell said.
Pennell stood in front of hundreds of CCSU students who turned out to support her in a stop the hate rally.
“I stand here in front of you today speaking to the person who is responsible for this and all I have to say is I will not be run out of my home,” said Pennell, “I will not be intimidated by hate.”
Police say they placed hidden cameras in the dorm hallway and caught Pennell on the tape placing the notes under her own door. They say the whole thing was a lie.
Pennell is now facing eight felony counts of fabricating evidence, among other charges.
“You have your classmates, the whole CCSU campus coming out to support you and then you just smack them in the face like that,” said Rodriguez, “wow!”
“A lot of people supported them and had their back and everything,” said Ferrabelo, “and to find out that it was all a lie, it’s very upsetting.”
It was just this Spring that hundreds of students filled the quad, handing out t-shirts that say stop the hate, and now that they found out that it is all an alleged lie, they say they are still proud of their university for supporting the cause.
Listen: when you begin to fetishize and glorify victimhood, those who are needy to begin with are going to take advantage of it — and of you, who has been so indoctrinated to react with kneejerk gullibility and guilt.
The fact that someone is part of some particular identity group doesn’t make them noble, or good, or righteous, or brave. There were cowards killed in the Holocaust, and probably more than a few Native Americans who were belligerent bastards.
Once you start seeing people as individuals — and not part of some identity tag — you’ll be more prepared to exercise the kind of basic skepticism and deference to fact that used to be the hallmark of American common sense.
(h/t Infidel Joe)
In Connecticut, is “with intent of raising awareness” a valid defense for fabricating evidence, obstructing justice, and perjury?
If it’s not, then the terrorists have won.
This happens more often than we think. Blacks have also reported racial harrassment: grafitti, nooses, automobile damage, &c, that has been found to be a hoax. It isn’t just students, either. Families in racially intregrated neighborhoods have pulled stunts like tagging their homes and breaking windows and blaming it on Whitey only to get found out when the pO-lice investigate.
I’m not surprised gays decided to get a piece of the action, so to speak.
I hate stories like this that remind me what 99% of Lesbians really look like.
From a (Top) commenter at the story link:
“We were all hoping we could pin this on George Bush or maybe a college republican or at least someone that has attended a church service within the last year or two, and instead we get this! What a shame.”
Not sure if he meant that ironically but I have no doubt that a sizeable number in that community actually felt this way.
I thought they might have gone with the “society hates her so much that she’s internalized this as self-hate, harassing herself by proxy, so it is still the fault of the Godbotherers” angle?
Look at the bright side Ferrabelo, as it turns out no one at your university really hates gay’s. That should cheer you up!
What’s that? You want gay hating people? You need gay hating people? Oh, well, sorry…
Demonize and divide. Use the stupid who want to be liked against the rest. It helps this demonization process along if there are cloven hoof prints left all over the place. Who knows that ALL of those hoof prints are fake? A few might have been left by a real devil.
“…now that they found out that it is all an alleged lie, they say they are still proud of their university for supporting the cause.
“They” apparently are very keen on utilizing and logic classes “they” may have taken…
I think I needed an extra special tag for that last comment – how does one indicated ultra scorn-dripping sarcasm besides “/ultra scorn-dripping sarcasm”?
Once you start seeing people as individuals — and not part of some identity tag — you’ll be more prepared to exercise the kind of basic skepticism and deference to fact that used to be the hallmark of American common sense.
Or we could just go with some lovely
It allows for much more… creative license.
“What’s that? You want gay hating people? You need gay hating people? Oh, well, sorry…”
But not scary ones. Not y’know devout islamists or skinheads or actual biker gangs or anything. Just lonely nerdy white kids who don’t have anyone who will run up and defend them. And when they get stomped wondering what it was that they said or did that was wrong, when they are locked up because their room mate committed suicide and the press made up bizarre stories about it, when they are routinely compared to rednecks beating ONE guy and tying him to a fence in a snow storm and leaving him to die fourteen years ago and to Fred Felps who protested the guy’s funeral , THEN the scary haters will get the message. Unless they are too hatey and scary. Then we’ll just have to squash some more nerds. Crimes must sometimes (often) be punished by proxy.
“…now that they found out that it is all an alleged lie, they say they are still proud of their university for supporting the cause.”
Yah, Witch hunts, lynchings, and show trials do a community good. Shirley Jackson y’all.
“ambient truth”?? Really?
and here I thought Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” schtick was the ultimate in equivocation.
Ambient Truth = “This rumor/obvious calumny is sufficiently consistent with my ignorant prejudices and cartoonishly bigoted assumptions that I will accept it as accurate without doing any research to confirm or discredit it.”
A weird form of Munchausen’s?
Lies and hoaxes are truthier than truth, h8rs.
A weird form of Munchausen’s?
Not really. Munchausen’s Syndrome manifests as physical ailments often times culminating in unnecessary surgeries.
I would just call it lying.
Not sure if he meant that ironically but I have no doubt that a sizeable number in that community actually felt this way.
He did. I went to the guy’s Facebook page, and he’s friends with Rush Limbaugh and National Right to Work foundation. I think it was in jest.
“Ambient truth” is the new “fake, but accurate.” It sounds more truthy because it has the word “truth” in it, and lacks the word “fake,” the latter word being a distraction from the overall meaning.
…I have no doubt that a sizeable number in that community actually felt this way.
Is that because of the “ambient truth” of the idea, or is it because of the dozens and dozens of examples of such thinking?
“Ambient Truth” There is scene in the film “Sleepless in Seattle” in which Meg Ryan, and Rosie Odonnal, (sp)?, dicuss this concept with two male co-workers. Because it seems or feels “real”, there must be some truth to the statement.
Duke Lacrosse Team rape case y’all.
Duke Lacrosse Team rape case y’all.
That would be the People vs. George Zimmerman you’re thinking of there. Because the “ambient truth” is that Zimmerman is a racist white hispanic stalker of innocent black yoot.