Was hang-noose incident at Columbia U. faked to avert attention from plagiarism case?
In an update on this story here, some very fishy news has come up, telling that the professor whose office had a noose-rope hung on her door has been sanctioned for mass plagiarism (via Hot Air):
More on this at Michelle Malkin, who once pointed to at least 2 other faked hate crimes, just as embarrassing.
The plagiarism probe was already under way last year when a 4-foot twine noose was discovered on the door of psychology and education professor Madonna Constantine's office, officials at the university's Teachers College said.If she really did fake the case, then this is ludicrous, and sounds vaguely reminicient of the Tawana Brawley case in 1989. When you fake a hate crime like that, it damages the community's ability to properly combat real hate crimes. The problems with racism against any and all decent races and nationalities will be around for many more centuries to come, but if hate crimes are faked, then it makes it harder to combat them when you have an embarrassing situation like this take place.
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Teachers College spokesman Joe Levine would not say how Constantine was punished, but college officials said her position is secure.
In a statement e-mailed to Bloomberg News Service yesterday, Constantine said she was the victim of a racist conspiracy.
The school accused her of plagiarism because of the "structural racism that pervades this institution," she charged. "As one of only two tenured black women full professors at Teachers College, it pains me to conclude that I have been specifically and systematically targeted."
More on this at Michelle Malkin, who once pointed to at least 2 other faked hate crimes, just as embarrassing.
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