Back in March we covered the story of a visiting professor who couldn't find enough hate on the Claremont College campus, so she staged a hate crime of her own. After her lecture on racial intolerance, Kerri Dunn painted racist graffiti on her car and slashed her own tires before reporting the incident to the police, apparently to highlight the urgent need for lecturers such as herself on campus. After all, without hate crimes, what's a lecturer on racial intolerance to do for employment?
Now Ms. Dunn has been convicted of lying to police and attempted insurance fraud, and faces a prison term of up to three years. Good. She damaged the reputations of the Claremont students, cost students and their parents thousands of dollars in time lost from their educational pursuits, and raised the level of public cynicism regarding possible future cases of actual racial intolerance.
The acts of lying to police and committing insurance fraud are the crimes, Ms. Dunn. What you were thinking about, or whom you were "hating" when you committed them should not be at issue.
Get it?
Posted by dan at August 24, 2004 12:46 AM