Usually, miniaturization is a clear sign of human progress. When things get smaller, it means there’s been a major breakthrough that required a lot of intellectual firepower to achieve. Handheld cell phones now have far more computing power than the cabinet-sized machines that NASA used to put the first man on the moon. Televisions that used to take up half the living room are now thinner than a pencil, and so on. None of these developments happened without a lot of ingenuity from some of the smartest people on the planet.
But there is one recent, high-profile example of miniaturization that, it has to be said, is not evidence of progress or cleverness or anything like that. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. This particular example of miniaturization is yet more evidence that there is an epidemic, a pandemic, of stupidity across certain sectors of the United States. Put another way, in this case, shrinkage most definitely does not signal the advancement of civilization. Instead it signals, quite possibly, the death knell of a political movement — and not a moment too soon.
I’m talking in particular about the size of a noose that was just used in a hate-crime hoax in Allentown, Pennsylvania. As you probably know, hate-crime hoaxes involving nooses used to be a cottage industry on the Left. They jumped the shark with Jussie Smollett, but up until that point, you couldn’t go a month without hearing about one. And in every case, there was a life-sized noose that was allegedly involved. Smollett said the MAGA Subway assassins threw a noose around him, and it fit around his neck perfectly. Bubba Wallace said he had a full-size noose hanging in his garage. There are many more examples, which I’ll get into in a second.
But as of this moment, as we sit here in the year 2025, it’s my solemn duty to inform you that hate-crime hoaxers are no longer using normal-size nooses. The nooses that they use in these hoaxes have, in fact, shrunk — and they’ve shrunk dramatically, to a comical degree. Take a look at this image:
This is a noose that, back in January, was reported to the police by a city employee in Allentown. She says she went to her desk and saw this miniature noose on her laptop at work. And then she ran upstairs and told the cops about it.
In a moment, I’ll play some news footage about this incident, to give you more context. But for now, just look at that noose. Look at the size of it. Take it in. In case you’re listening to the audio podcast, it’s an image of a laptop computer, apparently manufactured by Microsoft. And there’s a noose on top of the laptop. And this noose is just a little bit bigger than the Microsoft logo. It’s barely the size of the stickers on the laptop. We are talking about a noose for ants here. If this noose is going to lynch anyone, it would have be a character from “A Bug’s Life” or something. That’s the extent of the damage this thing could do.
And yet, this is the noose that, back in January and February, caused a crisis of historic proportions in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Watch:
One of the first things you notice when you pull up these videos on YouTube is that, immediately, everyone knew it was fake. Two months ago, every single comment was some variation of “it’s a hoax.” It’s only on television — in the corporate press — that you’re told to take this nonsense seriously. You’re supposed to feel sorry for the “victim,” who’s so traumatized by this miniature noose that she can’t even be named. It’s just too dangerous to identify the person who reported this noose. After all, as you heard, this was an act of terrorism.
Therefore, the protesters demanded a full FBI investigation — which couldn’t possibly backfire. Watch:
If anyone involved in this reporting had any interest in actually doing their jobs, they’d immediately notice that the timing here is very suspicious. Here are the facts: A city employee has complained about bigotry in the workplace. And then, within 24 hours of a hearing on the topic, a noose ends up on that person’s desk.
That’s pretty convenient, to say the least. It means that one of two things is possible: Either we’re dealing with an extremely committed racist here, or we’re seeing the exact same pattern that we saw with Jussie Smollett. Remember that Smollett was complaining about racism before he paid his two friends to stage an attack. He didn’t think he was being taken seriously — probably because he was fabricating his complaints about discrimination — so he decided to take things a step further.
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But again, the local media — along with Allentown’s mayor, and the rest of the Democrat Party — told everyone to ignore their common sense, and take this woman seriously. That continued right up until the investigation revealed what everyone already knew, which is that the city employee had planted the noose herself. The employee, a woman named LaTarsha Brown, was the only person with DNA on the noose. Watch as the local CBS news station pretends to be shocked and horrified by this development, as if no one could have possibly seen it coming — other than every single person living in the state of Pennsylvania, or anywhere else on the globe:
To recap: CBS Philadelphia, along with the mayor of Allentown and a bunch of Democrat activists, presented a completely unverified claim — one that was obviously fraudulent — as fact. They didn’t do any research into the person making the claim. In fact, they wouldn’t even tell you who the person was. At no point did they present any context, like the vast number of fake hate crime hoaxes involving nooses in this country. This is still happening in 2025, in a post-Smollett world.
Just to explain exactly what happened — when Latasha Brown didn’t provide her DNA voluntarily, the cops went to a judge and got a warrant that compelled her to do so. Then they compared her DNA with the DNA they recovered from the outer surface and inner-knotted portion of the noose. And that was the smoking gun.
Now, at this point, you might think that these activists, as well as the mayor, would demonstrate some degree of shame or humility after this total embarrassment. Or at the very least, you might think that they’d stop talking about this case. But that’s not true. They’re actually doubling down. Watch:
So the woman’s friend (the same activist from the video we played earlier) says that Latasha Brown is being framed, essentially. And the mayor of Allentown says that this is a great opportunity to talk about why we need more “inclusivity.” They don’t even pretend to care about the fact that they lied to millions of people for two months in order to push a narrative that white supremacists are emboldened by Donald Trump or whatever. They don’t announce any real consequences for this woman, who still hasn’t been fired from her government job, as far as we know. She’s almost certainly not going to see any jail time. These people are willing to say anything except the truth, which is that this hate crime hoax — like so many others — once again demonstrates that the Left’s demand for racism in this country far outstrips the supply.
But it’s worth spending some time thinking about the specific kind of racism that Democrats seem intent on conjuring into existence. They’re really, really hung up on nooses, no pun intended. They’re convinced that white supremacists are lurking in the shadows with nooses all over the place — whether they’re at NASCAR races, nondescript city offices in Allentown, or random city blocks in Chicago in the middle of a winter storm. Anywhere you look, according to these people, there’s a good chance a white supremacist is hiding in the bushes, armed with a noose.
Here’s just a brief, nonexhaustive recap of recent hate hoaxes involving nooses. Late last year, in St. Louis, Missouri, a noose was found in the restroom of a stadium used by high school football teams. The NAACP immediately blamed the rope on conservatives, saying that they were responsible for fostering an atmosphere of bigotry. But the school district quickly found that, “After extensive conversations and investigation, we do not believe this to be a racially-motivated incident.” It turned out to be a kid in “crisis” who had placed the noose, the school district said, without elaborating any further. But that didn’t stop the school district from putting out a statement that basically blamed racism anyway: “We understand the symbolism of a noose and the harm it has caused to our community. The Francis Howell School District will not tolerate hate or racially-motivated violence in our schools or on our campuses.”
Also late last year, as reported by the College Fix, a staff member at Sherwood High School thought she spotted a noose, in a flagrant example of white supremacy. The staff member, “discovered a small rope tied in a manner resembling a noose, draped over the fence surrounding the school’s tennis courts.” In the end, it turned out to just be a normal rope. But that didn’t stop the principal of the school from apologizing anyway: “While our investigation determined that the individuals involved did not intend to communicate a racist or anti-Black message, the impact of such imagery is deeply harmful and cannot be understated. We recognize how disturbing and upsetting this symbol can be, particularly to our Black community members, and we are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness.” It’s like watching all the politicians reading the same script after they tested positive for COVID. They told us they were really grateful for the vaccine, even as they admit that the vaccine didn’t prevent them from getting sick.
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In 2022, at the University of Virginia, there was a big uproar over a noose that was placed on the statue of Homer, on the campus’ south lawn. According to UVA’s alumni magazine, the noose, “caused mounting unease for Black UVA community members.” UVA officials, including the president of the university, suggested that white supremacy was to blame. They had no evidence for saying that, but they went ahead and made the claim anyway. In the end, it emerged that some guy who lived in the neighborhood nearby was just really upset at Homer, because he thought he was a pedophile. There was no racial angle whatsoever. He just thought pedophiles should be punished. No one at UVA apologized for lying about that episode, either.
And of course, in 2021 and 2022, as you may remember, nooses were reported at construction sites all over the country. Suddenly, out of the blue, construction workers decided to go full KKK. They did it anywhere they could — whether it was Obama’s presidential temple or random Amazon construction sites. The media was sure that this rope had nothing to do with the construction. It was definitely racism.
Remarkably, despite national media attention and large cash rewards, they never caught the culprit in any of these incidents. And we all know why that is. There was no culprit. But again, just as no one ever apologized when Bubba Wallace’s “noose” turned out to be a door pull, no one apologized for this fake hysteria either.
Nor did they apologize in 2018, after various news outlets — including CNN, CBS and ABC News — reported on the discovery of several nooses in trees near the Mississippi State Capitol. CBS reported that, “State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused attention on the state’s history of racist violence.” In the end, it turned out that Democrats had placed the nooses. One of the signs in trees read as follows, “We’re hanging nooses to remind people that times haven’t changed.” Somehow CBS failed to mention that in their exhaustive reporting.
A year earlier, at Michigan State University, a student claimed that a noose was hanging outside her dorm room. The university president immediately put out a statement alleging that racism was to blame: “A noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in America,” the president of the school said. But in the end, the “noose” turned out to be a “packaged leather shoelace” that had been dropped, on accident.
A similar incident unfolded at Kansas State University in 2017, when students protested after a noose was supposedly found on campus. They demanded more security and created a social media campaign called “Don’t leave us hanging.” But as Michelle Malkin pointed out in her exhaustive summary of these hoaxes, the alleged “noose” was really “pieces of nylon parachute cord, which police believed had been discarded by someone who may have simply been practicing tying different kinds of knots.” So much for that.
Malkin also identified another race hoax in 2016 at Salisbury State University, where, “Students, faculty and administrators were horrified when a stick figure hanging from a noose on a whiteboard was discovered at the school’s library.” In the end, two black students were determined to be responsible. No charges were filed. And in 2015, over at the University of Delaware, BLM protested over alleged “nooses” hanging from the trees. But those “nooses” ultimately were determined to be “remnants of paper lanterns” made out of metal that were used as decorations during an “alumni weekend celebration.”
There are honestly too many more examples to mention. We could spend the next five hours going through more instances of noose hoaxes that were spread by Democrats. The point is that no sane person believes that anyone — no matter how racist that person might be — is going to place a tiny little noose on someone else’s desk, or in an Amazon construction site or in some tree on a university campus, in some kind of bizarre attempt to terrorize black people. This isn’t something that actually happens in this country. The Left has invented this whole symbol basically out of whole cloth. When’s the last time a white supremacist actually used a noose to send some kind of racist message? Has there been one real, confirmed case this century?
That’s a question for professional race-baiters to answer, before they try to push another one of these hoaxes. And while they’re at it, they should tell us why exactly Left-wing activists are so preoccupied with nooses, in particular. It’s a bit like the anti-Tesla demonstrators who keep spraying swastikas everywhere.
Whatever the case may be, there are a few assertions we can make with certainty. First of all, no, conservatives are not hanging nooses everywhere, or anywhere at all. But Democrats most definitely are. And they’re continuing to do so, long after any reasonable person will fall for the charade, in a post-Smollett world. That suggests that we’re not talking about carefully planned tactics here. Instead, we’re talking about some kind of compulsion, or even a full-blown psychological disorder, playing out in front of millions of people. Democrats, as a party, have elected to embrace this particular disorder, as they’ve embraced so many others.
From Allentown to UVA to Obama’s temple to Bubba Wallace’s garage, the evidence is unmistakable. You’re either with Team Sanity, or you’re with the race hoaxers — knotting the world’s tiniest noose, as sane people everywhere play the world’s tiniest violin. And if the events in Allentown demonstrate anything, it’s that Democrats, to their detriment and quite possibly their destruction, have made their choice as clearly as they possibly can.
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Usually, miniaturization is a clear sign of human progress. When things get smaller, it means there’s been a major breakthrough that required a lot of intellectual firepower to achieve. Handheld cell phones now have far more computing power than the cabinet-sized machines that NASA used to put the first man on the moon. Televisions that used to take up half the living room are now thinner than a pencil, and so on. None of these developments happened without a lot of ingenuity from some of the smartest people on the planet.
But there is one recent, high-profile example of miniaturization that, it has to be said, is not evidence of progress or cleverness or anything like that. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. This particular example of miniaturization is yet more evidence that there is an epidemic, a pandemic, of stupidity across certain sectors of the United States. Put another way, in this case, shrinkage most definitely does not signal the advancement of civilization. Instead it signals, quite possibly, the death knell of a political movement — and not a moment too soon.
I’m talking in particular about the size of a noose that was just used in a hate-crime hoax in Allentown, Pennsylvania. As you probably know, hate-crime hoaxes involving nooses used to be a cottage industry on the Left. They jumped the shark with Jussie Smollett, but up until that point, you couldn’t go a month without hearing about one. And in every case, there was a life-sized noose that was allegedly involved. Smollett said the MAGA Subway assassins threw a noose around him, and it fit around his neck perfectly. Bubba Wallace said he had a full-size noose hanging in his garage. There are many more examples, which I’ll get into in a second.
But as of this moment, as we sit here in the year 2025, it’s my solemn duty to inform you that hate-crime hoaxers are no longer using normal-size nooses. The nooses that they use in these hoaxes have, in fact, shrunk — and they’ve shrunk dramatically, to a comical degree. Take a look at this image:
This is a noose that, back in January, was reported to the police by a city employee in Allentown. She says she went to her desk and saw this miniature noose on her laptop at work. And then she ran upstairs and told the cops about it.
In a moment, I’ll play some news footage about this incident, to give you more context. But for now, just look at that noose. Look at the size of it. Take it in. In case you’re listening to the audio podcast, it’s an image of a laptop computer, apparently manufactured by Microsoft. And there’s a noose on top of the laptop. And this noose is just a little bit bigger than the Microsoft logo. It’s barely the size of the stickers on the laptop. We are talking about a noose for ants here. If this noose is going to lynch anyone, it would have be a character from “A Bug’s Life” or something. That’s the extent of the damage this thing could do.
And yet, this is the noose that, back in January and February, caused a crisis of historic proportions in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Watch:
One of the first things you notice when you pull up these videos on YouTube is that, immediately, everyone knew it was fake. Two months ago, every single comment was some variation of “it’s a hoax.” It’s only on television — in the corporate press — that you’re told to take this nonsense seriously. You’re supposed to feel sorry for the “victim,” who’s so traumatized by this miniature noose that she can’t even be named. It’s just too dangerous to identify the person who reported this noose. After all, as you heard, this was an act of terrorism.
Therefore, the protesters demanded a full FBI investigation — which couldn’t possibly backfire. Watch:
If anyone involved in this reporting had any interest in actually doing their jobs, they’d immediately notice that the timing here is very suspicious. Here are the facts: A city employee has complained about bigotry in the workplace. And then, within 24 hours of a hearing on the topic, a noose ends up on that person’s desk.
That’s pretty convenient, to say the least. It means that one of two things is possible: Either we’re dealing with an extremely committed racist here, or we’re seeing the exact same pattern that we saw with Jussie Smollett. Remember that Smollett was complaining about racism before he paid his two friends to stage an attack. He didn’t think he was being taken seriously — probably because he was fabricating his complaints about discrimination — so he decided to take things a step further.
WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show
But again, the local media — along with Allentown’s mayor, and the rest of the Democrat Party — told everyone to ignore their common sense, and take this woman seriously. That continued right up until the investigation revealed what everyone already knew, which is that the city employee had planted the noose herself. The employee, a woman named LaTarsha Brown, was the only person with DNA on the noose. Watch as the local CBS news station pretends to be shocked and horrified by this development, as if no one could have possibly seen it coming — other than every single person living in the state of Pennsylvania, or anywhere else on the globe:
To recap: CBS Philadelphia, along with the mayor of Allentown and a bunch of Democrat activists, presented a completely unverified claim — one that was obviously fraudulent — as fact. They didn’t do any research into the person making the claim. In fact, they wouldn’t even tell you who the person was. At no point did they present any context, like the vast number of fake hate crime hoaxes involving nooses in this country. This is still happening in 2025, in a post-Smollett world.
Just to explain exactly what happened — when Latasha Brown didn’t provide her DNA voluntarily, the cops went to a judge and got a warrant that compelled her to do so. Then they compared her DNA with the DNA they recovered from the outer surface and inner-knotted portion of the noose. And that was the smoking gun.
Now, at this point, you might think that these activists, as well as the mayor, would demonstrate some degree of shame or humility after this total embarrassment. Or at the very least, you might think that they’d stop talking about this case. But that’s not true. They’re actually doubling down. Watch:
So the woman’s friend (the same activist from the video we played earlier) says that Latasha Brown is being framed, essentially. And the mayor of Allentown says that this is a great opportunity to talk about why we need more “inclusivity.” They don’t even pretend to care about the fact that they lied to millions of people for two months in order to push a narrative that white supremacists are emboldened by Donald Trump or whatever. They don’t announce any real consequences for this woman, who still hasn’t been fired from her government job, as far as we know. She’s almost certainly not going to see any jail time. These people are willing to say anything except the truth, which is that this hate crime hoax — like so many others — once again demonstrates that the Left’s demand for racism in this country far outstrips the supply.
But it’s worth spending some time thinking about the specific kind of racism that Democrats seem intent on conjuring into existence. They’re really, really hung up on nooses, no pun intended. They’re convinced that white supremacists are lurking in the shadows with nooses all over the place — whether they’re at NASCAR races, nondescript city offices in Allentown, or random city blocks in Chicago in the middle of a winter storm. Anywhere you look, according to these people, there’s a good chance a white supremacist is hiding in the bushes, armed with a noose.
Here’s just a brief, nonexhaustive recap of recent hate hoaxes involving nooses. Late last year, in St. Louis, Missouri, a noose was found in the restroom of a stadium used by high school football teams. The NAACP immediately blamed the rope on conservatives, saying that they were responsible for fostering an atmosphere of bigotry. But the school district quickly found that, “After extensive conversations and investigation, we do not believe this to be a racially-motivated incident.” It turned out to be a kid in “crisis” who had placed the noose, the school district said, without elaborating any further. But that didn’t stop the school district from putting out a statement that basically blamed racism anyway: “We understand the symbolism of a noose and the harm it has caused to our community. The Francis Howell School District will not tolerate hate or racially-motivated violence in our schools or on our campuses.”
Also late last year, as reported by the College Fix, a staff member at Sherwood High School thought she spotted a noose, in a flagrant example of white supremacy. The staff member, “discovered a small rope tied in a manner resembling a noose, draped over the fence surrounding the school’s tennis courts.” In the end, it turned out to just be a normal rope. But that didn’t stop the principal of the school from apologizing anyway: “While our investigation determined that the individuals involved did not intend to communicate a racist or anti-Black message, the impact of such imagery is deeply harmful and cannot be understated. We recognize how disturbing and upsetting this symbol can be, particularly to our Black community members, and we are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness.” It’s like watching all the politicians reading the same script after they tested positive for COVID. They told us they were really grateful for the vaccine, even as they admit that the vaccine didn’t prevent them from getting sick.
MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+
In 2022, at the University of Virginia, there was a big uproar over a noose that was placed on the statue of Homer, on the campus’ south lawn. According to UVA’s alumni magazine, the noose, “caused mounting unease for Black UVA community members.” UVA officials, including the president of the university, suggested that white supremacy was to blame. They had no evidence for saying that, but they went ahead and made the claim anyway. In the end, it emerged that some guy who lived in the neighborhood nearby was just really upset at Homer, because he thought he was a pedophile. There was no racial angle whatsoever. He just thought pedophiles should be punished. No one at UVA apologized for lying about that episode, either.
And of course, in 2021 and 2022, as you may remember, nooses were reported at construction sites all over the country. Suddenly, out of the blue, construction workers decided to go full KKK. They did it anywhere they could — whether it was Obama’s presidential temple or random Amazon construction sites. The media was sure that this rope had nothing to do with the construction. It was definitely racism.
Remarkably, despite national media attention and large cash rewards, they never caught the culprit in any of these incidents. And we all know why that is. There was no culprit. But again, just as no one ever apologized when Bubba Wallace’s “noose” turned out to be a door pull, no one apologized for this fake hysteria either.
Nor did they apologize in 2018, after various news outlets — including CNN, CBS and ABC News — reported on the discovery of several nooses in trees near the Mississippi State Capitol. CBS reported that, “State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused attention on the state’s history of racist violence.” In the end, it turned out that Democrats had placed the nooses. One of the signs in trees read as follows, “We’re hanging nooses to remind people that times haven’t changed.” Somehow CBS failed to mention that in their exhaustive reporting.
A year earlier, at Michigan State University, a student claimed that a noose was hanging outside her dorm room. The university president immediately put out a statement alleging that racism was to blame: “A noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in America,” the president of the school said. But in the end, the “noose” turned out to be a “packaged leather shoelace” that had been dropped, on accident.
A similar incident unfolded at Kansas State University in 2017, when students protested after a noose was supposedly found on campus. They demanded more security and created a social media campaign called “Don’t leave us hanging.” But as Michelle Malkin pointed out in her exhaustive summary of these hoaxes, the alleged “noose” was really “pieces of nylon parachute cord, which police believed had been discarded by someone who may have simply been practicing tying different kinds of knots.” So much for that.
Malkin also identified another race hoax in 2016 at Salisbury State University, where, “Students, faculty and administrators were horrified when a stick figure hanging from a noose on a whiteboard was discovered at the school’s library.” In the end, two black students were determined to be responsible. No charges were filed. And in 2015, over at the University of Delaware, BLM protested over alleged “nooses” hanging from the trees. But those “nooses” ultimately were determined to be “remnants of paper lanterns” made out of metal that were used as decorations during an “alumni weekend celebration.”
There are honestly too many more examples to mention. We could spend the next five hours going through more instances of noose hoaxes that were spread by Democrats. The point is that no sane person believes that anyone — no matter how racist that person might be — is going to place a tiny little noose on someone else’s desk, or in an Amazon construction site or in some tree on a university campus, in some kind of bizarre attempt to terrorize black people. This isn’t something that actually happens in this country. The Left has invented this whole symbol basically out of whole cloth. When’s the last time a white supremacist actually used a noose to send some kind of racist message? Has there been one real, confirmed case this century?
That’s a question for professional race-baiters to answer, before they try to push another one of these hoaxes. And while they’re at it, they should tell us why exactly Left-wing activists are so preoccupied with nooses, in particular. It’s a bit like the anti-Tesla demonstrators who keep spraying swastikas everywhere.
Whatever the case may be, there are a few assertions we can make with certainty. First of all, no, conservatives are not hanging nooses everywhere, or anywhere at all. But Democrats most definitely are. And they’re continuing to do so, long after any reasonable person will fall for the charade, in a post-Smollett world. That suggests that we’re not talking about carefully planned tactics here. Instead, we’re talking about some kind of compulsion, or even a full-blown psychological disorder, playing out in front of millions of people. Democrats, as a party, have elected to embrace this particular disorder, as they’ve embraced so many others.
From Allentown to UVA to Obama’s temple to Bubba Wallace’s garage, the evidence is unmistakable. You’re either with Team Sanity, or you’re with the race hoaxers — knotting the world’s tiniest noose, as sane people everywhere play the world’s tiniest violin. And if the events in Allentown demonstrate anything, it’s that Democrats, to their detriment and quite possibly their destruction, have made their choice as clearly as they possibly can.
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