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Man admits he put racist graffiti on his own car "as a prank"

ElectricBlanketFire

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This was the story from a few days ago:

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MANHATTAN, KS — Someone scribbled racist graffiti on a black man's car that was parked near Kansas State University's campus in Manhattan and now police are ramping up patrols and taking other safety precautions due to a spate of recent racially-charged incidents this year. Racist slurs and threats, including "Go Home" and "Date your own kind," were scrawled in yellow washable paint on the car this week.

The FBI is investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.

The vandalism comes after white supremacist posters were found on campus in September and a noose was found hanging from a campus tree in May.

"At the moment, minority students generally do not feel safe on campus," Darrell Reese, president of the Black Student Union at the school, said Friday.

Top university administrators and city leaders met with the union and other students during an emergency meeting Wednesday. Dean of Students Pat Bosco held a national Facebook Live discussion the following day to address concerns. Bosco noted the school was getting ready to announce a major gift to create a Multicultural Student Center on campus, saying the center would be a welcoming and safe place for students and "a space that drives success."
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Very unfortunate. No reason to fake racist incidents...especially "as a joke."
 

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A prank? Against who?! Himself?

Who would put graffiti on their own car, make sure that shit was water soluble

Edit: Oh it was, he got that part right
 
NealMcCauley

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... So it's the inverse of this?

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AnansiThePersona

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This is the "Just kidding I was pretending to be retarded" thing again?
 

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Do these people not understand every cry of wolf that gets proven just ignites hysteria in their opponents camps? It's like a form of this https://www.resetera.com/threads/study-1-in-20-teen-cyberbully-victims-targeted-themselves.4254/

Target/bully yourself for public attention, then have it backfire when things get serious (such as police/FBI investigating and interviewing you). Seems to happen most on American University campuses. Some students need to get a fucking grip. You're causing harm to others, stop lying.
 
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Dreezy

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At my old job one of my coworkers said racism doesn't exist anymore, that it's just people that cry wolf. He'll def cite this.
 
Fauxpaw

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This is really shitty, but at least he fessed up to it, I guess.

What a moronic thing to do, though, especially in this political climate.
 
TheCthultist

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Audioboxer said:
Do these people not understand ever cry of wolf that gets proven just ignites hysteria in their opponents camps? It's like a form of this https://www.resetera.com/threads/study-1-in-20-teen-cyberbully-victims-targeted-themselves.4254/

Target/bully yourself for public attention, then have it backfire when things get serious (such as police/FBI investigating and interviewing you). Seems to happen most on American University campuses. Some students need to get a fucking grip. You're causing harm to others, stop lying.
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...Yeah, but you can get attention in the moment though...
I'll never understand the thought process here
 
Pooh

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Guy played a prank on... black people who are actually targeted by racists in this manner.

So uh... great prank, bro? A+ downplaying of serious issues.
 
DiipuSurotu

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https://apnews.com/21994e18cb1447b9...-Kansas-man-he-put-racist-graffiti-on-own-car

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A black Kansas man has admitted he put racist graffiti on his own car as a Halloween prank that got out of hand.

The Riley County Police Department said in a news release Monday that no criminal charges would be filed against 21-year-old Dauntarius Williams for filing a false report.
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Williams apologized to the community in a statement for "the pain and news" he brought.
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TheCthultist said:
...Yeah, but you can get attention in the moment though...
I'll never understand the thought process here
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I think you answered it yourself, get attention. I saw this a few weeks back http://kron4.com/2017/10/27/man-draws-racist-images-on-floor-at-san-francisco-embarcadero-station/

Why do people do this shit? There are enough real incidents to fight against than adding fakes that only serve to ignite happiness in the "everything is false flag" groups.

The accusers do, however, come armed with examples.

An African American student at a small private school in Minnesota who said she found a typed threat on her windshield calling her the n-word and telling her to "shut up or I will shut you up" — which it turned out she had fabricated. Three female University at Albany students claimed they were attacked by white passengers on a bus, and then it turned out they were the ones who had done the attacking. A congregation organist in Indiana spray-painted a swastika onto his own church to "mobilize a movement." A black parishioner in Mississippi burned his church down and provoked public outcry against an alleged hate crime.

All these things happened. There is, as it turns out, an extended online literature on the topic, and not just far on the fringes of Twitter. "What is fueling fake hate crimes across the U. S.?" a Fox News article asks, pointing to a website called FakeHateCrimes.org that tracks bogus attacks. "Bogus Hate Crimes: Trump, Conservatives Blamed by Clueless Leftists," announces National Review.

Obviously it is wrong to foment false controversy, even with the goal of raising awareness of a real problem. But it's contemptible to seize on those falsehoods to minimize the same issue. At that Minnesota school, the media's focus on one student's lies stole attention away from eight incidents before it, including a note to one black student that said, "Go back to Africa." No one has debunked those.

Hate-crime hoaxes may be on the rise, but hate crimes are, too. The story of one black man burning down a black church does not mean every instance of arson accompanied by an anti-black message is automatically suspect. If history is anything to go on, burning black churches is much more the bailiwick of racist whites. And just since the election, white supremacist propaganda and swastikas have been cropping up on campuses across the country. At the University of Maryland at College Park in May, a black visitor was stabbed to death by a white college student who belonged to a Facebook group called "Alt-Reich: Nation."

"There Have Been Over 100 Hate Crime Hoaxes In The Past Decade," Breitbart trumpeted in 2016. Maybe so. But there were more than 1,000 hate crimes — real ones — in that same year alone.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ederate-battle-flags-and-the-hate-crime-hoax/
 
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