The mystery of the racist, anti-Semitic, anti-gay attacks that temporarily shut down a small, liberal Ohio university is a mystery no more. The perpetrators aren’t KKK-loving, uber-right-wing neo-Nazis after all. They’re ardent Obama supporters. Imagine that!
Some liberals have a jaundiced view of conservatives. They imagine us as crazed, foaming-at-the-mouth, knuckle-dragging merchants of hate. And when we didn’t fit that particular image, two Oberlin College students decided to create one, according to The Daily Caller .
Dylan Bleier
The pair, Dylan Bleier and Matt Alden, were identified by the Oberlin Police Department as the ones who festooned the campus with virulent anti-gay, racist and anti-Semitic messages over the winter. In doing so, they created an environment of fear directed at faceless, evil conservatives among the largely liberal student body.
And the press ate it up. As reported by Michelle Malkin :
The Associated Press, The New York Times, MSNBC, Yahoo News and the Huffington Post were among the media outlets that trumpeted the story of supposed racism, homophobia and anti-Semitism run amok at my alma mater. Throughout the winter, anti-black and anti-gay graffiti, swastikas, and a shadowy figure in a “KKK hood” surfaced on the tiny campus outside Cleveland, Ohio. Black Entertainment Television News decried the hate outbreaks and “KKK sighting.”
Malkin was one of the few who smelled a rat from the get-go, and her suspicions have turned out to be true. It was liberals after all.
The police “caught them red-handed” posting anti-Muslim flyers, and they soon fessed-up to their misdeeds. And who are they?
Bleier, the apparent ringleader, co-organized a voter registration drive for Barack Obama’s 2008 election while still a high school student. In the years since, his ardor for the president hasn’t faded. The Daily Caller noted:
On his now-defunct LinkedIn page, Bleier noted that he was the founder and president of the Ithaca High School for Obama club. He also identified himself as a member of the Oberlin College Democrats.
He described himself on his Twitter account as, “atheist/pacifist/environmentalist/libertarian socialist/consequentialist.”
After the president’s remarks on the Zimmerman case, he tweeted, “Zimmerman is just the tip of the iceberg, a single highly visible symptom of the racist system that is ‘succeeding’ in the US.”
Cornell University law professor William Jacobson said the Oberlin incident “may be the greatest race hoax since Tawana Brawley.”
