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Another hate-crime hoax?

'Racist' flyers all the rage in Jersey school board race; so who do you think really made them?



Racis I have no evidence one way or the other. It could be the work of real racists. But I have my suspicions. Usually when these things happen, the question I'm asking is: Does this sound like the way real white supremacists think? Or does it sound like the way liberals imagine that they think? My intuition is telling me this is a fraud:
Residents of a New Jersey township made a disturbing find in their mailboxes this week — campaign mailers that proclaim “Make Edison Great Again” and call for the deportation of two Asian school board candidates. One side of the mailers, received on Wednesday, includes the photos of the candidates, one Chinese-American and the other Indian-American — with the word “Deport” stamped under their faces. “Stop Jerry Shi and Falguni Patel from taking over our school board,” the mailer says. “The Chinese and Indians are taking over our town!” it continues. “Chinese school! Indian school! Cricket fields! Enough is enough!” “Stop the overcrowding!” the reverse side of the mailer declares. “Stop taking over our sports fields! Stop the McMansions! Stop multiple families living in the same house! Stop wasting school holidays! Stop the outsiders!” “Let’s take back Edison and our schools,” a bolded line at the bottom of the mailer reads. The mailers include no information on who paid for them — a state law requirement for campaign literature, according to New Jersey 101.5.

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Here's the actual flyer: fake flyer 'Racist' flyers all the rage in Jersey school board race; so who do you think really made them? First of all: "Make Edison Great Again"? I suppose there could be white supremacists in Edison who just love the whole MAGA thing and figure it would be persuasive to rip it off for the purposes of something like this, along with the cute little "DEPORT" stamps over the photos of Shi and Patel. But it's far more likely than a left-wing hoax perpetrator wanted to create an association between Donald Trump and the people who would actually harbor such attitudes. Shi and Patel are both American citizens, after all, so you'd have to be pretty ignorant to advocate their deportation. Are real white supremacists ignorant? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean they're completely unaware of how immigration laws work. If anything they're obsessed with them. But in the imaginations of many liberals, Donald Trump is trying to deport people who are either citizens or who otherwise live here legally. So you tell me: Which type of mind is more likely to have had the thoughts that led to this flyer being produced?

Also, what's with the rant about McMansions?

Also, what's with the rant about McMansions? What do they have to do with Indians or Chinese people? If you're not familiar, McMansions are newer, expensive houses that are built smack dab in the middle of an older neighborhood. A lot of people don't like them because they don't really seem to fit in with the surrounding homes, and you can debate that if you want. But Chinese and Indian school board members have nothing to do with whether McMansions will be built. It sounds like the sort of thing you'd throw into a rant just because you're on a roll and you can. It's completely irrelevant. The same goes for cricket fields. Who is seriously sitting around wringing their hands because pieces of land are used for cricket, assuming this is actually happening in Edison, New Jersey? I yield to no one in my preference for American sports over foreign ones like soccer and cricket, but it's not as if there's no place to play baseball because someone built a cricket field. Would even the most dastardly racist seriously expect to earn sympathy by complaining about such a thing? Finally, you've got the indications of recent history: How many "racist hate crimes" that we've heard about in the past year or two have turned out to be for real, as opposed to the ones we discovered were committed by clever liberals or just very disturbed people who clearly didn't have any real racial motive? The hoaxes seem to win by a lot, and if I had to put my money on it, I'd bet on one in this case as well.

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