In the olden days we would have called this a misunderstanding

No matter what the races involved.  Back then, we were under the impression that all the hullabaloo about Martin Luther King, Jr. was due to the fact that we planned on actually listening to what he said.  We were moving past race and more toward content of character, openness and diversity and agreeing to disagree.  As long as we were clinging to some vague 'if it feels good, it is good', we could resolve everything with a handshake or hug.  Today?  Like a different world, ain't it.

I have no clue what happened in the Yale story.  I'm pretty sure it didn't need to make the national and international news and be covered for days on end.  I don't know why the student, most importantly described as 'white', called the cops.  I don't know if there is a policy against students sleeping in the commons at Yale.  When you think of all of the factors that go into even the most minor events in a given day, it's amazing how little I actually know.

Of course the understood cause of the situation is racism pure and simple.  And not just racism that might be on the shoulders of the 'white' student.  All of America has been tried and found guilty.  Just as it was in the Starbucks case, or anything that now happens where two unequal ethnicities are involved.  The cause is assumed to be racism; guilt and sentencing are obviously the next step, and all in America, at least who are not blessed by being part of the designated oppressed demographic, are found guilty in turn.

It doesn't help that the press is doing nothing to  provide us with what we need to know. It's providing us with what it wants us to know.  For instance, the policy.  Is there one?  Why did the student call?  I've not heard.  Same with the Starbucks story. In fact, it is now coming out that, yes Virginia, Starbucks did have a policy that only paying customers can use the bathroom.  When the Starbucks story broke, I searched multiple news accounts and couldn't find one actually saying what Starbucks' policy was.  I found a couple suggesting it was confusing or employees admitted it was vague.  Otherwise, most stories acted as if they never heard of such a thing as a restaurant wanting costumers to pay before using its facilities. But again, it was much better to dig up anything on the white racist to prove she is a white racist than actually present all the facts.

So I have no clue.  I know nothing of the whole picture in either of these cases.  Now they're saying that the girl who called the police over the Yale student sleeping in the common room called the cops over a friend of that student earlier.   Apparently he was there to visit, got lost, and after already having met the white racist girl, he saw her again, this time prompting her to call the cops.  Again, is there a policy?  Are you allowed to sleep in the commons?  Are students advised to call the cops if someone is wandering around without a pass key?  I don't know.  Like the Starbucks story, I doubt I'll find out until well after the bonfires have died down and the guilty dealt with accordingly.

As Denis Prager points out, today it's enough that you've been accused.  Like the unfree nations of the last century, you walk about, go to work, live your lives, and keep your heads down.  Heaven help you if you're accused of the latest form of outrage.  I'm afraid there will be little concern about discovering your side of the story.  There will likely be little concern about facts at all. Much to the delight of the Left, we're well past that time when we assumed evidence, presumption of innocence or due process. The point is to affirm the truth claims of the Left.  And a major truth claim of the modern Left is that there is simply no place in the world more horrible to an ever growing list of oppressed minorities than the vile, racist, and evil United States of America.