False Stories

by Kerby Anderson, Contributing Author: The next time you see a story about alleged discrimination, you might stop and consider whether the story is true. There seems to be an increase in the number of hoaxes being promoted by social justice advocates. The latest was the claim by a homosexual pastor in Austin that someone at Whole Foods put a gay slur on his cake. Whole Foods claims it did not happen, has video to back up their claim, and are taking legal action against the pastor.

Mollie Hemingway wrote a great piece directed at people who try to perpetrate a hoax in order to advance their social agenda. First, pick a believable villain. Whole Foods in liberal Austin, Texas is not a place you would expect to find a cake decorator with homophobic motives. This is especially true when Whole Foods explained that the cake decorator is a “member of the LGBTQ community.”

Second, pick a good witness. The pastor would have us believe that no one in the store noticed the added words in the center of the cake that would be clearly visible through the cellophane. Only later, did he supposedly discover the anti-gay slur.

Of course, there is a lesson for us. Don’t believe every claim of a hate crime and discrimination you see in a news story. The list of false stories and hoaxes is getting quite long. An African-American woman claimed the KKK burned her for wearing an Obama shirt. Police found her fingerprints on the lighter and lighter fluid. A multi-racial family surreptitiously spray-painted their home with racist graffiti. A lesbian waitress wrote a fake anti-gay note on one of her receipts. Students at a number of colleges have been caught on security cameras writing racist notes on their own dorm room doors or white boards.

The list of fake hate crimes grows every year. That is why we should be a bit more skeptical the next time we hear a story of discrimination.
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Kerby Anderson is a radio talk show host heard on numerous stations via the Point of View Network endorsed by Dr. Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service

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