It was a story that received blanket media coverage in March 2021. It alleged that white middle schoolers in Plano, Texas, viciously "tortured" SeMarion Humphrey, their black classmate, forcing him to drink their urine at a sleepover as they shot him with BB guns. A Black Lives Matter activist group charged the local public school district with doing "nothing" to stop "this racially motivated hate crime" as violent protests broke out outside the home of Asher Vann, the white child alleged to have organized the brutal attack.Yes, it has now been determined to be a big hoax.Major media outlets, including NBC, CBS, CNN, Business Insider, People magazine, the Daily Mail, and the Dallas Morning News, pounced on the story as Humphrey, his mother Summer Smith, and their attorney Kim Cole, embarked on a media tour where they called Vann "evil." The trio appeared on Good Morning America, where ABC host Linsey Davis promoted a GoFundMe account that raised nearly $120,000 to help pay for Humphrey’s "therapy and private schooling."
Ever since Pres. Obama, the press has been full of these racial hate crime stories, and they are nearly all hoaxes.
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It fascinates me how people who claim so passionately to hate racism and fascism enjoy employing it so frequently, get caught lying, and then merely change the subject to something else. Performative self induced outrage would seem to be their only talent.
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