Noah Rothman, writing in Commentary Magazine, has documented some recent hoaxes on campus, where fake racist incidents led to overreactions by school administrators. Rothman is very careful in making it clear that actual victims of racist hate should not be automatically dismissed as hoaxers.  But, at the very least, the recent spate of fake hate crimes on campus should have resulted in a more cautious approach to the problem by campus activists. At the University of Missouri, the investigation of the "poop swastika" and racial slurs hurled at black students was incomplete when activists demanded the resignation of the school president and chancellor of the university system.  But then, the activists don't care about investigations.  They want ""retributive social justice." The allegation that school administrators were slow walking the investigation into claims of racial discrimination prompted Mizzou students to construct an...(Read Full Post)