How many times must the social justice warriors who cry "Wolf!" be exposed as liars before their identity-politics agenda and bullying are thoroughly discredited by the media? Considering that the mainstream news media are heavily invested in that agenda, that will never happen. In any case, here's another fake hate crime to add to the mountainous pile.
Jordan Brown, a gay pastor in Austin, filed a lawsuit against his local Whole Foods claiming he was discriminated against after the cake he ordered from the store came back with a slur against homosexuals written on it in icing. Beneath his requested message “Love Wins,” an apparently bigoted cake decorator had added “FAG” squarely in the center of the cake. As if this tale didn't already sound suspicious, The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway counts the ways in which the pastor's story rang false:
First, location. It's beyond unlikely that a Whole Foods in Austin, Texas would be "a hotbed of cartoonish bigotry," as Hemingway puts it. Indeed, as it turns out, the decorator who worked on Pastor Brown's cake claims membership in the LGBT community as well (which happens to be Hemingway's point #4).
Next, despite the fact that "FAG" was clearly visible through the transparent cover on the cake box, Brown did not notice it until after he left the store and neither did anyone else - not even the cashier who rang it up. So, no witnesses except Brown.
Third, Brown claimed that he had not opened or tampered with the cake box, and as evidence he posted the video above, in which he repeatedly declares that the seal had not been broken. But as Mollie Hemingway notes, "[H]ow many ways could a Whole Foods cake box be penetrated, other than steaming off the seal, gently taking off the seal and reapplying it, cutting the other side of the box opposite the seal, or removing the plastic at the top?" In fact, Whole Foods later reported that surveillance camera footage of the cake sale shows that the "seal" - the UPC label - was originally on top of the box.
And finally, the "FAG" icing does not match the "LOVE WINS" lettering in either color, density, or technique. So... hate crime hoax.
Whole Foods posted the following statement on Instagram. The store is now taking legal action against Brown.
