The Ultimate Race Hoax
Reviewing the Duke Lacrosse case for AmGreatness
Last week, I did a deep dive into the famous Duke Lacrosse case in podcast form.
If you didn’t want to listen to my wonderful voice for an hour and 20 minutes, you can now read me explain the case.
For American Greatness, I argue the case mounted to one of the worst hate hoaxes in American history and served as a preview for future cases in the 2010s.
The Duke lacrosse hoax offered a preview of America’s coming social conflicts in the age of woke. Imagined racial grievance, feminism, and belief in “white privilege” all fueled this story. The media was all too eager to buy it. Journalists wanted to believe it was true to show that white men are the real menace to society. It was a story too “good” to pass up. It was also a story too “good” to be true.
No lessons were learned from the Duke lacrosse case. We would see similar lies play out with Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Rolling Stone’s infamous “A Rape on Campus” story. While District Attorney Mike Nifong paid a high price for his reckless pursuit of the case, the media and activists who aided him suffered no real consequences. Hate hoaxes would flourish as a result.
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The Duke Lacrosse race/rape hoax was ground zero for all future hoaxes. No one in the media and academia was held accountable for spreading the lies. That is why the guilty until proven innocent narratives have continued: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/duke-lacrosse-2006-hoax-hysteria