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'Here we go again'! Yet another college 'hate crime' exposed as a hoax

https://twitter.com/TheRoadbeer/status/859233972911353857

Do you remember earlier a few weeks back, when students at St. Olaf College in Minnesota presented the college’s president with a list of social-justice-flavored demands after a racist note was found on a student’s car?

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https://twitter.com/longnightlaura/status/858487906385752064

Well, buckle up, because we’ve got some news for you …

Yep. Here we go:

More from The College Fix:

President David Anderson said in an email to students that an investigation into the note identified a person of interest “who confessed to writing the note.”

“We’ve confirmed that this was not a genuine threat. We’re confident that there is no ongoing threat from this incident to individuals or the community as a whole,” he said.

In a second campuswide email sent later Wednesday, Anderson used stronger words to explain what happened: “The reason I said in my earlier note that this was not a genuine threat is that we learned from the author’s confession that the note was fabricated. It was apparently a strategy to draw attention to concerns about the campus climate.”

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Read the whole thing. Hope you had your shocked face handy.

https://twitter.com/TheRoadbeer/status/862421510815752193

Not likely, no. Also unlikely? That this hoax will be the last.