Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Surprise! BYU found no evidence of racial slurs at volleyball game - All signs point to the BYU-Duke volleyball incident being just another hate crime hoax. Add it to the list with Jussie Smollett's run-in with MAGA hat-wearing, bleach-pouring racists outside a Chicago subway, Bubba Wallace's terrifying encounter with a noose in a NASCAR garage, or a Colorado Rockies fan's injudicious shouting of a racial slur at a black batter. Duke University volleyball player Rachel Richardson claimed after a match against Brigham Young University two weeks ago that a member of the BYU student section was repeatedly calling her the N-word while she was serving. The only problem? There's no evidence of that at all.
Establishment media propagated another racism hoax-
Brigham Young University has found no evidence that a racial slur was yelled at Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson, meaning establishment media once again jumped on a racial hoax without waiting for evidence.
BYU interviewed 50 eyewitnesses and reviewed “security and raw footage from all camera angles taken by BYUtv of the match.” The university had put four ushers, a police officer, and a Duke assistant athletic director in the student section after Duke’s coach relayed Richardson’s accusation of a slur being used. Richardson said the slurs were louder in the fourth set of the match, yet none of the people placed in the student section heard them, nor did the students or Duke’s players aside from Richardson.
Of course, Richardson didn’t hear them either — because they were never said. This has become completely clear. The fan Richardson singled out as having used the slurs was shown on video not to have said them, and BYU has now lifted the ban it initially placed on him. Not one person in the sold-out school-record crowd of 5,507 could vouch for Richardson’s claims: not the fans, not security, not her own teammates.
It didn’t matter to establishment media, which treated this as true from the moment the accusation was made. CNN, ESPN, NPR, ABC, NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post all reported the nonexistent slurs as fact without bothering to look into the accusation and find out if it was true. (We used to call that “journalism.”) Jemele Hill, the Atlantic’s go-to race-baiter, predictably pushed the false claim.
USA Today’s Mike Freeman, the less successful version of Hill, went even further. After police determined that no slur was said after reviewing the video, Freeman declared that anyone who doubted Richardson’s claim was a conspiracy theorist. And South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley continued the despicable trend of turning women’s basketball into a progressive political tool, canceling games with BYU over slurs that were never used.
Nothing will be learned from this, just as nothing was learned over Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax or Bubba Wallace’s noose hoax or the Colorado Rockies slur hoax. Establishment media are desperate for anything that perpetuates their narrative of racism running rampant in America, even if that means taking fake stories and presenting them as true, regardless of silly things like “facts” or “evidence.”
None of the journalists or pundits who pushed this hoax should be employed, but they will face no consequences for this. This is what their outlets incentivize them to do. The media demand for racism dwarves the supply, and so these media figures and their outlets will dutifully jump on the next racial hoax with all the enthusiasm they did for this one.
#fakenews #bias #hoax
Surprise! BYU found no evidence of racial slurs at volleyball game - All signs point to the BYU-Duke volleyball incident being just another hate crime hoax. Add it to the list with Jussie Smollett's run-in with MAGA hat-wearing, bleach-pouring racists outside a Chicago subway, Bubba Wallace's terrifying encounter with a noose in a NASCAR garage, or a Colorado Rockies fan's injudicious shouting of a racial slur at a black batter. Duke University volleyball player Rachel Richardson claimed after a match against Brigham Young University two weeks ago that a member of the BYU student section was repeatedly calling her the N-word while she was serving. The only problem? There's no evidence of that at all.
Establishment media propagated another racism hoax-
Brigham Young University has found no evidence that a racial slur was yelled at Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson, meaning establishment media once again jumped on a racial hoax without waiting for evidence.
BYU interviewed 50 eyewitnesses and reviewed “security and raw footage from all camera angles taken by BYUtv of the match.” The university had put four ushers, a police officer, and a Duke assistant athletic director in the student section after Duke’s coach relayed Richardson’s accusation of a slur being used. Richardson said the slurs were louder in the fourth set of the match, yet none of the people placed in the student section heard them, nor did the students or Duke’s players aside from Richardson.
Of course, Richardson didn’t hear them either — because they were never said. This has become completely clear. The fan Richardson singled out as having used the slurs was shown on video not to have said them, and BYU has now lifted the ban it initially placed on him. Not one person in the sold-out school-record crowd of 5,507 could vouch for Richardson’s claims: not the fans, not security, not her own teammates.
It didn’t matter to establishment media, which treated this as true from the moment the accusation was made. CNN, ESPN, NPR, ABC, NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post all reported the nonexistent slurs as fact without bothering to look into the accusation and find out if it was true. (We used to call that “journalism.”) Jemele Hill, the Atlantic’s go-to race-baiter, predictably pushed the false claim.
USA Today’s Mike Freeman, the less successful version of Hill, went even further. After police determined that no slur was said after reviewing the video, Freeman declared that anyone who doubted Richardson’s claim was a conspiracy theorist. And South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley continued the despicable trend of turning women’s basketball into a progressive political tool, canceling games with BYU over slurs that were never used.
Nothing will be learned from this, just as nothing was learned over Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax or Bubba Wallace’s noose hoax or the Colorado Rockies slur hoax. Establishment media are desperate for anything that perpetuates their narrative of racism running rampant in America, even if that means taking fake stories and presenting them as true, regardless of silly things like “facts” or “evidence.”
None of the journalists or pundits who pushed this hoax should be employed, but they will face no consequences for this. This is what their outlets incentivize them to do. The media demand for racism dwarves the supply, and so these media figures and their outlets will dutifully jump on the next racial hoax with all the enthusiasm they did for this one.
#fakenews #bias #hoax
