Another Day, Another Pathetic Race Hoax. You Won’t Believe This One.

When the demand for racism far exceeds the supply, the inevitable result is that you get race hoaxes. And there are now so many race hoaxes in this country that we have entire genres of race hoaxes to catalog. There’s the Jussie Smollet-style hoax, where you fake a racist attack. There’s the graffiti-style race hoax, where you spray-paint something racist on a wall or a car or something like that. And of course there’s the restaurant-receipt-style race hoax, where someone leaves a racist message on a receipt.

One of the more prominent racist receipt hoaxes is the one that happened at the Saltgrass steakhouse a few years back, when a customer supposedly wrote the words, “We don’t tip terrorists” on his receipt, because the waiter looked like he was from the Middle East or something. The waiter put out a social media post saying the receipt is proof that racism is alive and well. “This racism and this hatred still exists,” he posted on Instagram. The restaurant immediately announced it was banning the customer for life because the waiter obviously wouldn’t lie about something like that. Only for the waiter to eventually admit what every sane person already knew, which is that he fabricated the whole thing.