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You want to be very careful with stories of this sort.

And the more responsible news outlets – like the Boston Globe – are doing just that, using words like alleged, account, and report.

Remember Francisco Nava. Remember Kerri Dunn. I could go on. I’ve been covering – for years – people at universities who stage (or are accused of having staged) hate crimes against themselves. So notorious is this behavior – self-generated physical and other attacks – that it inspired a play – Spinning into Butter.

This woman might indeed have been attacked. But many of these stories turn out to be hoaxes.

Margaret Soltan, February 19, 2012 10:09AM
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