ANATOMY OF THE HOAX: And how one progressive reporter refused to go along with another fake rape story. “Progressives and liberals — reporters and activists alike — are apt to see each case of evil-doing — rape, racist murder, racial intimidation, or homophobia — as a stand in for events that actually do occur in society. Evil happens regardless, and a moral relativism places no limitations on which actual set of ‘facts’ must be used to prove the point. To them, proxies for truth are close enough.”