Hate Hoax as Hardball Politics

According to leftist ideology, privileged identity groups are somehow oppressed no matter how obsequiously they are catered to. The hate hoaxes used to prop up this absurd notion can be applied to hardball politics. For example, a militant moonbat named Hashim Coates claims that a mom at a school board meeting gripped his shoulder and called him a “dumb n*****.”

National Review has the story:

The alleged assault against Coates occurred last August, amid impassioned debates over increasing school violence in Denver, and outcry from parents over changes to the district’s discipline polices, which the board watered down in the name of racial justice. Many parents at the time were also incensed over the firing of a popular principal who spoke out publicly about his concerns about security and faced charges of racism for trying to keep a student charged with attempted murder out of his middle school.

Coates is a belligerent proponent of the “racial justice” position.

Predictably, the school board took his preposterous allegation seriously.

“It is never okay, never, for a white person to walk up to a black person and use that racial slur,” said Xochitl Gaytan, the board’s then-president.

Not good enough for Coates:

He filed a report with Denver police, repeating his charge that the white parent, Kristen Fry, had touched him and called him a racial slur.

This being Denver, a city undergoing ruin by moonbats,

The police criminally cited Fry, and the city attorney upped the charges after Coates’s protestations. Coates receive a restraining order, which hampered Fry’s ability to engage in school-board politics. Fry was barred from volunteering at her kids’ school. She was publicly humiliated. She was forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers.

You can guess the rest of the story. Surveillance video that the school tried to suppress confirms Coates has been lying through his teeth.

Fry, who herself participated in a racial-justice march after the death of George Floyd, claims Coates was being disruptive during the meeting and she simply urged him to be respectful.

Here’s why she dared try to have a word with him:

Throughout the meeting, Coates and [his ally, local activist and political consultant MiDian] Shofner were distracting and intimidating speakers, including children, Fry said. They coughed and laughed at people, and called speakers they disagreed with “white supremacist” and “racist”…

Coates offers insight into what Fry marched for during the Black Lives Matter craze:

While he is a regular at Denver school-board meetings, Coates is no concerned parent; he doesn’t appear to be a parent at all. Rather, he is a far-left political activist with a checkered past and a history of weaponizing allegations of racism.

An incident from a few years previously offers insight into his character:

[H]e fired a gun at the vehicle of the male prostitute he’d met on Backpage.com, and then refused to fully cooperate with police investigators.

There were multiple people in the car at the time.

After the December 2016 shooting, Coates confessed to police that he’d contacted the man for a sexual encounter — he acknowledged that he’d been meeting men online for hook-ups for over a decade, according to police reports. When he refused to pay the prostitute, the man stole his iPad, and demanded money for its return.

Police say Coates is a serial “no-pay” john.

His moral character is consistent with the Black Lives Matter platform and milieu. Fry’s is not. At least there will be a silver lining from this appalling story if she has learned a lesson.

On a tip from Varla.

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