Religion can make some people crazy

Firstly, I'd like to address the comments from their college rag:

"According to one of Dunn's students who wanted to remainanonymous, Dunn had called re-cent incidents "terrorist acts" and had encouraged students to do more rallies, display more posters, and hold more protests. People agreed with her statements but generally not her levelof vehemence because she was very angry, the student said. While Dunn may have come off as rather strong in classes and during discussions, by no means were students expecting a hate crime to emerge from her talks."

While I dislike using the Language of the Oppressor, I believe that Ms. Dunn has been mischaracterized. Her comments reflected her belief that there is definite, palpable hate present in that community, and it must be extirpated by any means necessary.

Ms. Dunn was perfectly correct in what she did. It resulted in a series of beautiful demonstrations against hate. Marches were held; posters were made; repudiations and posthumous rehabilitations were announced; there was much airbrushing of photos.

While some may view her actions as wrong, most likely those persons secretly harbor racist, xenophobic, bigoted, hateful, mean-spirited thoughts themselves.

I think some of the leftists who view the cause of equal rights and affirmative action as sort of a religion would be happier, and feel more relevant, if they could get into a time machine and journey several decades into the past, when discrimination and bigotry were quite rampant.

Times change, but some people's ideology and political neurosis don't.

There's some truth to that, Kyle; I think many of us would like to have met the great leaders of the past, and been part of those historic battles.

We don't need to get in a time machine though, to find bigotry or engage in historic battles, and if Dunn faked this hate crime to provoke outrage, I wonder if she really understands that.

Sounds like she's an undermedicated performance artist.

The issue, or the question, that this incident brings up though is, how many racist acts are indeed faked? Now I am certainly not saying the majority are and believe there is still quite a few wackos out in the world who harbor racism, but I wonder how many times has "wolf" been cried? Does this point to a culture all too quickly pointing to racism when race is any sort of factor? Look at Omarosa on The Apprentice. This is a woman who took the phrase "calling the kettle black" as racist, who has brought allegations of being a victim of corporate racism, and has accused a fellow contestant of using the "N word" towards her. Needless to say none of these items have found to hold ANY water and, frankly, show that she's off her rocker. Is this a sign of a greater problem within our society today in determining the slightest thing racist when clearly it isn't?

And I'm hoping the Lone Wacko's comments were in jest or sarcasm. I'm hoping....

There are so many parts to this situation that need to be addressed, but I think I will confine myself to one small point, the need for a person to be a central figure in an increasing whirlpool of emotion.
It seems that the need for intense drama is so great that it is worth lying, and destroying the heart of students to stir up a hornet's nest...Frankly if the need to be involved in a dramatic event is so great, I would suggest joining the Peace Corps or the military. Go see how a true daily drama unfolds for the rest of the world. By the way this would be especially fun if you are into women's issues.