A Hoax Exposed

Another case of fake victimhood coming from conservatives. A conservative college student pretends to be assaulted and the conservative blabbosphere uncorks a wind-storm of indignation... and then quietly scrubs it from their websites when the hoax is exposed.

The Nation - article posted December 18, 2007 (web only)
A Hoax Exposed at Princeton
Max Blumenthal

... For several hours on December 17, conservatives announced that their
darkest fears of persecution had been realized. A pious student had been beaten
by liberal brownshirts simply for speaking out in favor of traditional morality.
If the student were gay or black, conservatives reasoned, the entire student
body would have erupted in massive protests. Instead, the administration stood
silently to the side. Princeton graduate and conservative writer Michael Fragoso
told the Sun, "There would rightly be outrage had the student been part of some
other minority on campus."

At last, an incident surfaced that proved what movement figures
had long maintained: campus conservatives are a minority that suffers far
harsher oppression than the blacks, Latinos and gays who form the "politically
correct" vanguard of liberal identity politics.

But on the night of December 17, as the conservative firestorm
was being whipped to a frenzy, there was another development. Nava confessed to
Princeton Township Police that he had invented the entire incident. They had
suspected the veracity of his tale all along. Signs of an elaborate hoax had
been present from the beginning, from Nava's history of fabricating death
threats to his cinematic description of his latest victimization.

Nava's hoax fit neatly into an epidemic of faked hate crimes on college
campuses across America. But in their eagerness to stage-manage the unfolding
political drama, leaders of the conservative movement grazed over these
inconvenient details. ... (full article)

I picked up this story by way of Orcinus where Dave Neiwert writes about being 'called-out' by a Redstate.com wing-nut.

This conservative outrage over faked victimhood seems oddly familiar. It seems like just the other day that our local conservatives were complaining that they are an oppressed minority because they can't get their candidates elected. Oh... wait, that was just the other day!

Looks like the conservative strategy is to fake being oppressed in an attempt to get special rights.