They got it wrong. Big time.
Earlier this year, “hate incidents” — including racist, anti-gay graffiti and a blanket-clad student — at Oberlin College prompted canceled classes and soul-searching. Oberlin alumna Lena Dunham was beside herself with grief. What had become of the college’s “beautiful, inclusive and downright revolutionary” character?
Twitchy CEO Michelle Malkin, also an Oberlin grad, immediately called B.S. As she noted at the time, Oberlin has a shameful history of hate crime hoaxes, and this case smelled just as rotten. Law professor and blogger William Jacobson wasn’t buying it, either, and his suspicions were only magnified by the fact that Oberlin refused to offer any insight into the perpetrators’ motivations.
As it turns out, Malkin and Jacobson were right. They were right about everything. In a damning report published this morning, Daily Caller News Foundation contributor Chuck Ross blew the lid off the college’s hate crime narrative. The incidents in question weren’t pulled off by right-wing, racist homophobes, as liberals were so quick to assert, but rather by a pair of student trolls:
I'm shocked…SHOCKED…I tell you. Yet another hate crime hoax, perpetrated by a "means justify the ends" liberal. #Oberlin
— JakeBradford (@jake_bradford_1) August 22, 2013
https://twitter.com/heartiste/status/370573125546569728
Remember the hate-related events that forced the closing of Oberlin College? He was an Obama volunteer #WhiteGuy
— Stuart (@Ringo6) August 22, 2013
See, I told you so: Oberlin hoax confirmed, perpetrated by lefties. Paging @lenadunham @ap ==> http://t.co/hGrb3Geysn
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) August 22, 2013
Yep. Ross reports that Dylan Bleier, one of the students, is an avowed Obama supporter who has worked with OFA and considers himself an “atheist/pacifist/environmentalist/libertarian socialist/consequentialist.” Matt Alden, his partner in crime, has a reputation as a prankster. And indeed, when questioned by campus officials, the two jackasses admitted that they did it all just for kicks.
Hilarious.
https://twitter.com/DarrenWeber/status/370613610503880704
https://twitter.com/filampatriot/status/370605903789060096
Major questions still remain, like this:
What did the Oberlin Board of Trustees know about the racism hoax, and when did it know it? http://t.co/rnMiH2CDOw
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) August 22, 2013
And this:
How many hours of the summer @OFA "fellow" training covered creating the next Oberlin hoax?
— Brad Cundiff (@bradcundiff) August 22, 2013
And this:
Will OFA denounce member allegedly circulated virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around Oberlin? http://t.co/Ij0KA596Oi?
— Sarah Isgur Flores (@whignewtons) August 22, 2013
And, of course, this:
.@lenadunham – What's your reaction? The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013 http://t.co/hOt4LrTFXO
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) August 22, 2013
C’mon, Lena! Inquiring minds want to know!
https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/370581689497436160
@lenadunham Will Melissa Harris-Perry talk about the role of racist hoaxes in creating a false narrative of racism at Oberlin? Will you?
— IpsoPhakto (@Mcschweety) August 22, 2013
https://twitter.com/EvanPokroy/status/370569518785249280
@lenadunham What words of wisdom do you have now that we KNOW it was a hoax. http://t.co/VpRMOl5E1I
— Deb (@auntdeb59) August 22, 2013
@lenadunham read all about #Oberlin and the faked racism / homophobia. Are you proud of your fellow democrats? http://t.co/804CfnoIhR
— IpsoPhakto (@Mcschweety) August 22, 2013
The usually-chatty Dunham, so eager to denounce “hate crimes” when they were supposedly committed by meanypants right-wingers, hasn’t made a peep since the truth came out. Here’s her most recent tweet:
Now the whole world can know my favorite story in the history of all-time! http://t.co/7WXxw1vkxi
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) August 21, 2013
That was two days ago. Maybe she just needs more time to think about it.
Congrats @lenadunham! You played a part in one of the biggest racial hoaxes ever! http://t.co/gpCVkQlF9A
— Jimmy Todd (@jimmytoddb) August 22, 2013
Update:
Dunham has resumed tweeting. Any guesses as to whether she weighed in on her support of a race-hate hoax?
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