‘Hatecrimed five times in one night’ – here are the 31 campus hoaxes uncovered in 2025
Hate crimes, or hateful incidents, do occur. For example, when a Democratic Party donor yells “Go back to Haiti” at a black (Jamaican) Republican politician, it should be condemned.
Hate crime hoaxes must also be condemned as a violation of justice — saying “Trump supporters” or “University of Illinois fans” are racist without evidence violates those group’s rights to their reputation. It is even worse when a specific individual is falsely maligned as racist.
While campus race hustlers have once again been busy spreading hate hoaxes, The College Fix has been even busier, staying on top of their claims as much as possible. While many news outlets are quick to rush out stories about how a hate crime occurred, few are willing to do the follow up work to see what really happened.
The College Fix exclusively covered a hateful incident hoax involving a Purdue University basketball player Trey Kaufman-Renn. He claimed in March that his teenage brother, mom, and girlfriend were all subjected to racist language during a game against the University of Illinois. Only problem? It never happened, according to reportsobtained by The Fix.
“There was no mention of racial discrimination, just general obnoxiousness,” a University of Illinois official stated. The university never made any statement about this to clear its own name.
Then of course there are the obvious hoaxes, like the student at University of Tennessee who claimed he was “hatecrimed five times in one night.”
Student Jaden Clark told the late Charlie Kirk that “freshman year I was hatecrimed five times in one night. Three of them by Trump supporters.”
Yet Mr. Clark (pictured) was slow to take Kirk up on his effort to use his vast contacts in the Trump administration to ensure the crimes were investigated. The University of Tennessee has also never responded to a Fix inquiry about any reports filed by Clark.
The Fix uncovered other alleged hateful incidents simply by reading documents and filing public records requests.
Four anti-Muslim incidents at Indiana University turn out to be untrue
Muslim students claimed a driver tried to run them over for wearing a hijab. He said he just did not see them in the crosswalk. But the damage was done – an Indiana University report noted many students said they had heard this story.
There are also no corresponding police reports for this claim: “A student reported that a group of students wearing Israeli flags and a Trump flag hit them on the back of their head with a water bottle.”
Racial slurs at sports games? Assume it’s a hoax
Most people don’t go to large sports stadiums or tightly packed high school gyms and start yelling racial slurs around their classmates or neighbors.
Yet, hoaxes at sporting events continue to flourish. These hoaxes occurred at New Jersey high school wrestling meets, Texas high school football games, and Washington high school basketball games. (Black sports announcer Robert Griffin III was also falsely accused of using a racial slur while commenting on a college football game).
Sometimes hate crimes occur, but not by who you suspect
Hateful incidents do occur, but they can turn into hoaxes when someone is framed. That is what happened when Rex Wu, who is Asian, tried to frame his racist, anti-gay, and pornographic messages on Turning Point USA members and other conservatives at Montana State University. Wu will soon serve prison time for his hoax.
Other times, incidents do occur, but the action itself is not actually racist. This includes a Michigan State University professor accused of being a “racist” for using the term “mob rule” and a teacher accused of racism for saying he needed a seating chart to learn students’ names. (Thankfully, he has secured some justice).
Some other hate hoaxes this year include: a black school board member who planted a noose on her desk, conservative students being blamed for hoax threats against University of Minnesota’s DEI department (thereby making it a double hoax), and false accusations against a conservative leader at Yale University.
In good news, while a Jewish student claimed someone stole his mezuzah at Harvard University, police concludedit likely fell down and accidentally ended up at a different dorm. The University of Missouri also cleared a professor of racism after she asked a student for update on his work and accused a student of plagiarism.
There are a few other stories that should give readers and concerned citizens pause when they hear of hateful incidents, including the University of California Los Angeles’ investigation into wads of paper reportedly thrown at someone in an anti-gay hate crime. And Michigan State University’s regular closure of hate crime allegations after the supposed victims stop talking. Interestingly, a UCLA survey also claimed 2.6 million Californians are victims of hate incidents, much of it “verbal abuse.”
There is also the tragic case of Trey Reed, a black Delta State University student who committed suicide this year. Despite multiple investigations concluding he killed himself, race hustlers like Ben Crump and Colin Kaepernick are keeping alive rumors he was possibly killed. A promised independent autopsy has yet to materialize, as reported by The Fix and other outlets.
As highlighted by The Free Press, nooses are truly sometimes about depression and suicide, not about lynching.
Hateful incidents do happen, and they should be condemned. But not everything is racist and not all (if any) Trump supporters are driving around yelling slurs or otherwise harassing people.
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