Another Liberal Noose-ance
by Ann Coulter (more by this author)

Liberals are so invigorated by the story about a noose being found on an obscure
Columbia University professor's door that now nooses are popping up all over New
York City. Liberals love to make believe the Night Riders are constantly at
their doors.

I'll be shocked by a noose appearing on a college campus the day an actual
racist does it.

Could Columbia at least produce one student or professor who supports racism
before holding another "rally against racism"? Every concrete example of the
racism allegedly sweeping the nation's campuses keeps turning out to be a fraud.
Far from "institutional racism," there is "institutional racial hoaxism" run
amok in this country. Will anyone rally against that?

Out of legions, here are just a few hoax hate crimes on college campuses.

-- In 1997, at Duke University, a black doll was found hanging by a noose from a
tree at the precise spot where the Black Student Alliance was to be holding a
rally against racism. Two black students later admitted they were the culprits
and were immediately praised for bringing attention to the problem of racism on
campus. Indeed, four years later the president of Duke gave a baccalaureate
address nostalgically describing the hoax as a "protest" against racism. Next
stop: the Nobel Peace Prize.

-- In 2003, vile racial epithets were scrawled on the dorm room doors at Ole
Miss, producing mass protests and a "Say No to Racism" march. And then it turned
out the graffiti had been written by black students, against whom no charges
were brought. A "Say Yes to Racism" rally at Ole Miss was later canceled due to
lack of interest.

-- In 2005, obscenity-laced racist and anti-Semitic messages appeared on
dormitory walls at the College of Wooster in Ohio. The fliers were instantly
blamed on "typical white males," even though all the letter I's in the epithets
were dotted with little hearts. Breadcrumbs left by the culprits included the
message "Vote Goldwater" among the obscenities. The matter was dropped and
flushed down the memory hole when the perpetrators turned out to be a group of
leftist students led by a black studies major.

-- Just this year, anti-Muslim fliers were put out on the George Washington
University campus -- by leftists, including a member of "Iraq Veterans Against
War." When it was thought the leaflets were from the conservative group Young
Americans For Freedom, the dean called for the expulsion of the culprits and the
university demanded that YAF officers sign a statement disavowing "hate speech."
But when it turned out leftists had distributed the fliers, the matter was
dropped faster than Larry Craig was dropped from Mitt Romney's campaign.

The one real example of racism on a college campus in recent memory was
perpetrated against white men of the Duke lacrosse team. As that injustice was
being perpetrated, gender and ethnic professors at Duke kept droning on about
the "racism and sexism" students "live with every day" -- as the professors put
it in an open letter that falsely presumed the players were guilty of rape. We
don't expect a rally against the prejudiced professors, but an apology might be
nice.

Playing the game of He Who Is Offended First Wins, Americans seek status not by
claiming to be rich or of royal lineage, but by portraying themselves as
victims. In one recent hoax hate crime, a white woman professor at Claremont
McKenna College said her car had been vandalized with racist and anti-Semitic
graffiti, with the words "Shut Up!" spray-painted on the hood of her car.

She was not black or Jewish, but had recently converted to Judaism and spoke out
against racism. So she was a victim! After the vandalism of her car, she
promptly became Queen for a Day. Far from "silenced," this anonymous mountebank
was given a national microphone to bore us with her race-gender-culture
theories. The campus was shut down for a day for anti-racism rallies in the
charlatan's honor. Then eyewitnesses identified her as the one who had
spray-painted her own car, and the pity party was over.

These liberal racism-hunters are like dirty old men who spend their days poring
through pornography in order to better denounce it -- but enough about the
Warren court.

Assuming against all reason and experience that the Columbia noose is not
another hoax by a high-status victim, how is it that a pimply adolescent can
cause such tumult in liberal New York City?

Liberals claim to believe the Klan has established a beachhead at Columbia
University, Bill O'Reilly is head of the Manhattan branch, Rush Limbaugh
despises the troops, I'm planning a pogrom from the heart of Manhattan, and
George Bush is establishing fascism in America.

Some anonymous liberal hag on Air America Radio, which no one knew was still on
the air, fell down outside her Park Avenue apartment this week, and her liberal
colleagues were claiming it was Kristallnacht.

If it rains after a liberal washes his car, they say it's a right-wing dirty
trick.

Liberals love nothing more than these constant self-righteous-athons -- as if
they would ever have the courage to stand up for any cause not universally
supported by everyone around them.

Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of "High
Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Slander," ""How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must),"
"Godless," and most recently, "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be
Republicans."