“We don’t allow criminals to investigate themselves.” “Why should we trust the administrators to conduct an ‘in depth review’ of their own university?” wrote the group’s education “researcher,” Anna Hill. When BSU capitulated to critics, halted the course in question and hired investigators to check it out, IFF remained unsatisfied.

IFF built a scandalous narrative on the sandy foundation of this claim, assailing BSU – and before long, all Idaho schools – as leftist, social justice indoctrination factories. Much of this baseless outrage was driven by the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the libertarian, anti-government lobbying organization that drags a significant number of Idaho lawmakers around on a leash. This claim – accepted at face value from conservatives and peddled hard by critical-race-theory grifters in Idaho political circles – became an article of faith in the Legislature, which cut BSU’s budget, along with other Idaho colleges, in retribution. Among the other claims were that the student had been taunted and called stupid. This allegation came from an unidentified, non-student “community leader” who claimed to have seen a video of the incident on a friend’s phone. This year’s assault on education in the Idaho Legislature was sparked by a claim that a white student at Boise State University had been demeaned and “forced to apologize for being white.”

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