By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--March 9, 2017
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"I was suffering from depression at the time," Bass told Judge Elizabeth Pollard Hines. "I made a superficial scratch on my face. It was visible and I was embarrassed about what I'd done. So I made up a story and told a friend that a stranger had done it while I was walking. I was encouraged to report it to the police. I made the mistake of doing that." At the time, Bass claimed her attack was part of the surge in hate crimes following the election of Donald Trump a week earlier. She told police she was targeted for wearing a solidarity pin connected to Great Britain's "Brexit" vote.
Bass admitted to scratching her own face with the pin after becoming upset during a Woman's Literature class at the University of Michigan, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department report."I was suffering from depression at the time," Bass told Judge Elizabeth Pollard Hines. "I made a superficial scratch on my face. It was visible and I was embarrassed about what I'd done. So I made up a story and told a friend that a stranger had done it while I was walking. I was encouraged to report it to the police. I made the mistake of doing that." At the time, Bass claimed her attack was part of the surge in hate crimes following the election of Donald Trump a week earlier. She told police she was targeted for wearing a solidarity pin connected to Great Britain's "Brexit" vote. Bass admitted to scratching her own face with the pin after becoming upset during a Woman's Literature class at the University of Michigan, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department report. . . . The investigators observed the 21-year-old was nervous and asked why she was wearing the Brexit pin. "... The significance of the safety pins is that ... to sort of like to show a solidarity with immigrants who feel threatened by Brexit. Um ... but now it's ... for people who feel threatened by president elect, Trump's his name ... Um so it was, it was to show, yeah, solidarity with the people like we show your fear and we want to help you get through it," she said, according to the report.
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Bass also heard of other incidents on campus, including the incident of a woman wearing a hijab who said a man threatened to light her on fire if she didn't take it off. Ann Arbor police later determined that incident was a hoax too, though. The woman who falsely reported the crime is not being prosecuted in that case, however. Bass eventually confessed that she had cut her own face after getting out of her Woman's Literature class. "I had been in a discussion in my women's lit weirdly and there were a few people in my class that sort of said some things that scared me," she said. "...It was more like I wanted a concrete reason to be scared then to just talk, I guess."I wonder of Halley Bass was a fairly normal, well-adjusted person before enrolling at U-M. I've seen it happen before. Kids enroll there and get exposed to this quasi-intellectual madness, and the next then you know they want to show, yeah, solidarity with the people, like we show your fear. And they get scared by what someone says in women's lit, man, so they scratch their faces. Those two quotes in bold, take it in, America. There's your future. College students are easily influenced by people who tell them all kinds of things about the world. They can be easily convinced to "feel threatened" or to think that it means a damn thing to "show solidarity" with someone. They get so steeped in this odd world that they can sit there and tell you they did a completely outlandish thing because they "wanted a concrete reason to be scared then to just talk, I guess" and to them, they said something that makes all the sense in the world. Your jaw is on the floor, but they don't have the faintest notion why.
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