BYU Investigation: There Is "No Corroboration" For a Single Woman's Claim That She Alone Heard Constant Racial Slurs Directed At Her In a Packed Auditorium
UPDATED: It's a White Supremacist QAnon Conspiracy Theory, Says USAToday

Another racial hoax. Either she deliberately created a hoax, or she just hallucinated because she's so brainwashed and drugged-up on racist venom.

I didn't cover this latest racial hoax as it was becoming venomously viral last week, so let's review the New York Times' "reportage," which asserted the sophomore's claims were true without making any effort whatsoever to verify they were true.

I'll bold the parts where the NYT claims "facts" to be true which are false -- and at the time were completely unverified claims -- and also their attempts to stir up racial hatred and potential violence for Clicks.

I'll also bold the overwrought language and constant shrieks about "safety" and "feeling unsafe" and "feeling hurt."

Racial Slur During College Volleyball Game Leads to Fan Suspension

A women's volleyball game was moved on Saturday after a Duke University player who is Black was called a racial slur during a game the night before.

By Vimal Patel

I think Vimal Patel should get the full credit for his shoddy, unprofessional, racially-explosive Clickbait propaganda.

So should his editors.

A Duke University women's volleyball player who is Black was called a racial slur during a game Friday night in Utah, prompting Brigham Young University to ban a fan from sporting events and Duke University to change the venue of a tournament game on Saturday.

Marvin Richardson, the father of the Duke volleyball player, said in an interview late Saturday that a slur was repeatedly yelled from the stands as his daughter was serving, making her fear "the raucous crowd" could grow violent.

Complete hearsay. He wasn't even a witness to this alleged slur.

Mr. Richardson said his daughter cried to him over the phone on Friday night about the episode.

"Here we are," Mr. Richardson, who said he grew up in Fort Worth when it was still desegregating, said in the interview. "It's 2022, and we're dealing with 1960s issues."

After the episode occurred, a police officer was placed on Duke's bench.

The accused fan was banned from all BYU events -- even though, as we'll shortly see, he was falsely accused by this Racial Poisoner.

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In a statement, Duke University said officials moved the game on Saturday against Rider University from Brigham Young's George Albert Smith Fieldhouse to a location in Provo meant to create the safest atmosphere for both teams.

The game, which was open only to staff and family members, is part of the same tournament, the doTERRA Classic, in which B.Y.U. played Duke. B.Y.U. won 3 games to 1.

Safety!

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Mr. Richardson said he instructed his daughter that if she faced a similar situation in the future she should immediately make sure an authority figure was aware. But his daughter, who is 19, told him that she was scared of the crowd and that the safest course would be to keep her head down and continue playing.

Corrected: I originally wrote that this was an admission that Rachel Richardson did not complain about this "racist" at the time he was supposedly shouting these racist taunts, but that's wrong; apparently they had a police officer sit on the bench to protect her from the "unsafe" situation.

So at some point I guess she said something, but I'm not sure what she told people at the time. I don't understand why the father is stressing that in the future, she'll tell an authority figure about alleged racial abuse, if she already did so during the "incident" under contention here.

She didn't only "feel the ping of the slurs but also fear of the crowd," he said.

"Because as the crowd got more hyped and the epithets kept coming, she wanted to respond back but she told me she was afraid that, if she did, the raucous crowd could very well turn into a mob mentality."

To justify his daughter's claims -- and explain why she conveniently has no evidence for the umpteenth racial hoax -- the father now ups the drama to claim that a violent racial riot against what was most likely the only (or one of the only) black women present was brewing.

And the Times' Clickbait Stenographer dutifully repeats this claim without even reviewing video of the event to see if he himself could detect this roiling racist hatred stirring in the entire auditorium!

His daughter, whom he did not want identified for fear of harassment, should not have borne that burden, he said. It was the responsibility of the home team, including the coach, to ensure the visiting players felt safe, Mr. Richardson said.

Of course, she hallucinated the whole thing, or just made it up later for attention and Racial Agitation Politics.

A BYU representative apologized:

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"The Duke players' experience is what matters here," he said. "They felt unsafe and hurt, and we were unable to address that during the game in a manner that was sufficient.

Because.

She.

Never.

Said.

Anything

For that, we truly do apologize, and we are examining our processes and practices to do everything in our power to make sure something like this doesn't happen again."

Don't worry, it didn't happen this time, either.

Mr. Richardson said that his daughter, a sophomore neuroscience major, is a strong and dynamic leader who played against Rider on Saturday night. The game, he said, had been moved to safer territory: a local high school gym.

Was a Flying Squad of trained, certified FBI Race Hustlers dispatched to the scene?

And now, the much-less discussed resolution: Another racist, race-baiting, racist-violence-inciting lie.

As part of our commitment to take any claims of racism seriously, BYU has completed its investigation into the allegation that racial heckling and slurs took place at the Duke vs. BYU women's volleyball match on August 26. We reviewed all available video and audio recordings, including security footage and raw footage from all camera angles taken by BYUtv of the match, with broadcasting audio removed (to ensure that the noise from the stands could be heard more clearly). We also reached out to more than 50 individuals who attended the event: Duke athletic department personnel and student-athletes, BYU athletic department personnel and student-athletes, event security and management and fans who were in the arena that evening, including many of the fans in the on-court student section.

From our extensive review, we have not found any evidence to corroborate the allegation that fans engaged in racial heckling or uttered racial slurs at the event. As we stated earlier, we would not tolerate any conduct that would make a student-athlete feel unsafe. That is the reason for our immediate response and our thorough investigation.

As a result of our investigation, we have lifted the ban on the fan who was identified as having uttered racial slurs during the match. We have not found any evidence that that individual engaged in such an activity. BYU sincerely apologizes to that fan for any hardship the ban has caused.

The next claim will be that White Supremacists have discovered a way to yell racial taunts that cannot be picked up on videotape or audiotape, kind of like vampires or wraiths.

Which we resemble, apparently. In some people's eyes, at least.

Via Jesse Singal, who really emphasizes the New York Times' guilt here.

It's one thing for some stupid, ignorant, brainwashed 18 year old to make up a racial hoax. All of her friends are doing it!

It's another thing for "news professionals" at a multibillion dollar propaganda corporation to promote it without any checking whatsoever.

Jesse Singal @jessesingal

Thread, including some in-retrospect-astonishing screencaps from The New York Times' original coverage. I hope this latest news sparks an internal conversation about standards there.

As I wrote, the initial New York Times reporting on this, which made effectively no effort to independently confirm any details, painted a terrifying scene in which the BYU gym was teetering on the verge of a violent race riot. None of this happened! Bad, irresponsible journalism

As the most important newspaper in the world, you simply cannot, on the basis of one secondhand account, tell your millions of readers that that a named college gym was maybe about to lynch a black volleyball player without being damn freaking sure that's what happened. [blasphemous exclamation omitted]

The fan who was banned over a lie has surely been identified, and the New York Times claimed he was a racist without any caveat or equivocation.

Not a single "alleged" in the entire piece!

Time for a multimillion dollar defamation lawsuit.

Now maybe it's time for people to admit that no "Tea Partiers" yelled a racial slur at John Lewis at another heavily videotaped and audiotaped incident, in which no racial slur can be heard.

But I guess that's White People's natural Vampiric traits at work again.

Update: There actually is one person known for a fact to throw slurs at another race involved in this story -- and wouldn't you know it, it's the grandmother of Racial Hoaxeress herself, a Democrat agitator, constantly slurring white people.

Plot twist! No one saw that coming!

USAToday called the proposition that "if there were no slurs detectable on the extensive video of the event, therefore, it is unlikely it happened" a, get this, "conspiracy theory."

Yes it is now a "conspiracy theory" to say that if there is no evidence that something happened -- and in fact, evidence that it did not happen, for sometimes absence of evidence is evidence of absence -- it's a "conspiracy theory" to say that it probably didn't happen.

At least when a black person is making a claim about racism. Because, as well all know, #BlackPeopleNeverLieAboutRacism. Just like #MeToo's claim that women never lie about men.

It's something you may not have noticed. It's like QAnon. Or mass voter fraud. It's another conspiracy theory. This one? That Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson, who said she was called multiple racial slurs while playing in a game at BYU, made the entire thing up.

My email inbox has been overwhelmed with this conspiracy theory. It's grown across social media. The right wing has spent extensive time promoting it.

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What the conspiracy theories essentially all come down to is one thing: no one heard Richardson being called the slur. The belief, suddenly, is that microphones pick up every word in the arena or student section. Or that cameras are all-seeing and knowing, like mini one-eyed gods.

Amazing! "The available recorded evidence says it didn't happen, but it's a conspiracy theory to then conclude that it didn't happen."

The thing about this story, this incredible story that I knew would take the direction of "she's lying" but am still shocked it did, is that I believe Rachel Richardson. I don't believe anyone prematurely backed her. I don't think she's lying. I think she's telling the truth.

If I'm proven wrong, I'll be first in line to say so, and write that, but I've seen nothing to show she made it up.

Except for every microphone in the place somehow failing to pick up repeated racial slurs -- the "n-word," in fact, which really cuts through, audio-wise-- which this woman claims were shouted at her so that she could hear them on the court.

If she could hear them, why could the microphones that pick up every player grunt and every thump on the ball not pick up these repeated shouts of the n-word?

You know who else believes her? South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley, who canceled her program's series against BYU. Staley believes her or she wouldn't put her reputation, or that of her program, on the line.

No offense, but we're really down to "one black woman says she believes another black woman so shut up bigots" as proof?

This is the offer of proof from the guy alleging that white people all cover for each other?

Well buddy, I've noticed that black people in the media, those who had to show Racial Solidarity For the Caue, all dutifully claimed that Juicy Smolliet was telling the truth, too, so... Yeah I'm not impressed by the Black Solidarity Testimony From Media Agitators as evidence.

People like Dave Chappelle, and I imagine a lot of black people not in media or politics, knew Smollett was a liar.

But all of the black people in media and politics -- well, except those on the right, of course! -- were racially-bound to present the Racial United Front. Gotta show Black Solidarity.

So this means nothing. Less than nothing, actually. When the Black Card gets played so blatantly, that's an admission that there is literally no other evidence to support a claim.

Especially when all the electronic recording devices say that no racial slurs, let alone vigorously repeated racial slurs, were uttered.

Her grandmother claim that she was called the n-word every time she served. It's QUIET during a serve, relatively.

No microphones heard the n-word being shouted at a black girl?! No one else in the arena heard this, except this woman with the racist grandmother?

In many ways, this story is about race and how Black people have to constantly prove we're not criminals or liars. That we don't commit mass voter fraud. Or that we get jobs only because of affirmative action. We have to prove, as Richardson does, that we heard what we heard. That we saw what we saw.

And that's what this is all about, isn't it? Endless black grievance.

And the fact that White People are Vampires whose images and words cannot be captured by electronic recording devices.

We were hoping to keep that under wraps, but now that the word's out: Yeah, we vamp out when we do our Racisms.

Update:

Kate Iswell💭 @KateIswell

@LeonHWolf

Could it be that ppl were shouting "cougars" and it was misinterpreted?

The BYU team name is The Cougars.

I guess that's possible, and it would make Rachel Richardson not guilty of lying.

But it would still make her guilty of being a toxic person who hallucinates racial taunts because she's desperate to feel empowered by them.

As a wise man said, the demand for white supremacy in the US greatly exceeds the actual supply. So a lot of wildcat operators just invent it.

UPDATED: It's a White Supremacist QAnon Conspiracy Theory, Says USAToday&bodytext=Another racial hoax. Either she deliberately created a hoax, or she just hallucinated because she's so brainwashed and drugged-up on racist venom. I didn't cover this latest racial hoax as it was becoming venomously viral last week, so let's review...&topic=world_news"> posted by Ace at 12:02 PM

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