Like the Matthew Shepherd murder, the suicide of Tyler Clementi is a mortal tragedy with an underlying criminal act but not a story about a hate crime.  Although Tyler’s death, being a suicide, was not as horrific as Matthew’s, the way the gay community uses Tyler’s death for its own purposes, lying about it and using it to rally support for liberal causes, is exactly the same.

Basically, facts and truth do not matter to the people who use either of these tragic deaths for their own purposes, as examples of hate crimes.

The story is very simple although various leftwing special interest groups want to make it complicated.  On September 19, 2010, Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, asked his dorm roommate to vacate the room until midnight so he could entertain a guest.  The guest was an older man and the roommate, Dharun Ravi, was not completely comfortable either with the fact that he had to leave his own room so that gay sex could happen or the fact that the man coming to visit was older.  He says he was worried about stuff being stolen.  So he rigged up the webcam on his computer to allow him to view the room from another computer.  Very briefly that evening, for a matter of seconds, he and a friend turned on the webcam, just long enough to see Tyler and the older man fully clothed and kissing.

Three days later, Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge, committing suicide.

All the usual leftwing media sources, including The New York Times, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, etc., described this tragedy as a horrible hate crime where a poor, closeted, innocent, young, gay boy was videoed in flagrante delicto, literallly with his pants down having sex; and the video was then posted to the Internet, humiliating him so completely that the only recourse he saw for himself was to kill himself.

Except, as The New Yorker pointed out four months later, “In fact, there was no posting, no observed sex, and no closet.”  His roommate saw him fully clothed for a few seconds kissing, Tyler was well out of the closet—even his parents knew he was gay—and nothing was ever posted to the Internet.  Tyler himself, remember, asked for the room and didn’t worry about his roommate seeing the man he would be having sex with, so clearly he didn’t care about people knowing he was gay.

There are other facts inconvenient for the meme pushed by the liberal media: one, Tyler had been scouting suicide spots for weeks, long before the webcam incident; two, Tyler himself in various communications after the incident, didn’t seem suicidal or overly upset about it; three, he went ahead and scheduled another rendezvous in his dorm room with the older lover a couple days later; and finally, four, he left a note behind, presumably a suicide note, which his parents will not let the world see.

One would think, if the parents truly thought their son was the victim of a hate crime, as they publicly maintain, and had a suicide note proving the point, they would let the world see it.

A U.S. government study, titled Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Youth Suicide, published in 1989, found that LGBT youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than other young people.  The gay lifestyle is an inherently unhappy one, as evidenced by the suicide rate, the rampant drug use, and the rate of depression.  It is imperative for gay apologists to blame this unhappiness on something other than the lifestyle, which is the impetus for their wanting both the suicide of Tyler Clementi and the murder of Matthew Shepherd to be labeled hate crimes.


Sources:

9/29/10 - New York Times - Private Moment Made Public, Then a Fatal Jump

9/30/10 - CBS News - Gay Student’s Death Highlights Troubling Trend

9/30/10 - MSNBC - Groups: Prosecute Rutgers case as hate crime

9/30/10 - The Boston Phoenix - Tyler Clementi: What’s hate got to do with it?

9/30/10 - CBS News - Tyler Clementi Suicide Result of Hate Crime?

9/30/10 - Miami Herald - Gay-oriented Campus Pride reacts to Tyler Clementi suicide: ‘A terrible, unfathomable tragedy’

9/30/10 - CNN - Prosecutor: Bias charges may come in webcast of sexual encounter

12/22/10 - CBS News - Parents of Rutgers Suicide May Sue School

2/6/12 - The New Yorker - The Story of a Suicide

3/21/12 - Townhall - A Hateless Hate Crime

3/22/12 - nj.com - Exclusive interview with Dharun Ravi: 'I'm very sorry about Tyler'

9/9/16 - New York Times - Conviction Thrown Out for Ex-Rutgers Student in Tyler Clementi Case

10/27/16 - New York Times - Roommate in Tyler Clementi Case Pleads Guilty to Attempted Invasion of Privacy

Wikipedia - Suicide of Tyler Clementi


Posted from Rockford, Michigan, USA