Several Ole Miss students are being accused of racism. In a recent video that circulated on social media, Ring doorbell camera footage shows three young women walking past an apartment door. Two of them made monkey noises and beat their chests, while the third simply smiled as she followed her friends. The people who lived in the apartment were black.

According to the mainstream media, that’s the end of the story. All three white women are racist and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Leftist activists immediately went to work tracking down these women and their families, complete with a doxing campaign and death threats.

For the casual observer with only pieces of the story, it appears as though several white women went to the home of black occupants to make racial monkey noises. However, media outlets are leaving out a whole lot of context, just as they always seem to.

The three white women weren’t being racist; they were simply being dumb and had played similar pranks on other Ring cameras during their walk. They also say they had no idea that the women in this particular apartment were black.

How do we know this? Well, Jakirya Metcalf, one of the black women in the apartment, told CBS News that she went after the white girls and confronted them. One of the passersby, Alaina Kunes, immediately apologized to Metcalf, explaining that they had made monkey noises in front of four other doors and that “they meant no harm.” The other girl with Kunes got defensive because, after all, they were just fooling around pranking people — yet that defensiveness convinced Metcalf to post the video on social media.

Kunes also later issued a public apology for the prank, again explaining that it was not racial targeting, though that earned her no grace — it never does with the woke mob. In fact, it caused her accusers to double down. For them, it doesn’t matter whether the prank was actually racist; they were offended by the disrespect of coming up to their camera and being dumb.

In college, people do dumb stuff. But in this day and age, it seems that college students have lost any sort of freedom that previous generations had. Collegiate Gen Xers might have done something similar, like a ding dong ditch, and no one would be accused of racism. But with black victimhood culture being extra trigger-sensitive, cameras everywhere, and leftist trolls making other people’s lives miserable, one misstep means an 18-year-old’s life is now on an utterly different course.

Ole Miss says it is investigating the incident. Hopefully other footage comes out from different door cameras to corroborate the pranksters’ story.

In any event, the racism smear damage is already done. Kunes has voluntarily withdrawn from the school because the harassment and threats were overwhelming. Her family has also been targeted with a separate racism lawsuit against her grandfather’s Buick car sales business.

These women’s words and actions on a Ring camera culminated in their being sentenced to a life of ruination. They are henceforth social pariahs, even though one of them didn’t even take part in (ahem) monkeying around.

Meanwhile, black-on-white physical attacks are alive and well. Just two weeks ago, white female students at York University in Pennsylvania were attacked by a mob of black teens who had come to watch illegal street racing. The students were sitting on their nearby porch when a black woman approached them and started speaking aggressively. All it took was one of the white women to clap back and all hell broke loose. One of the students was dragged off by her hair and beaten to unconsciousness twice.

This isn’t even the first time this has happened to a York student. Two weeks before the aforementioned incident, another student was attacked for telling a black woman to get off her lawn. She was dragged off by her hair, too.

These stories don’t fit the narrative that only white people can be racist, so they get swept under the rug.

Also consider the horrific story in Georgia of 15-year-old Austin Payne, who was targeted by black thugs on Halloween. The group tried to rob him, fatally shot him in the stomach, and then dumped his body in an abandoned house, where his single mother found him the next morning after tracking his phone.

Neither the vicious beatings of the white students at York nor the murder of Austin Payne has been deemed worthy enough to make national news. Yet monkey noises on a Ring camera are.

We also have Karmelo Anthony’s stabbing murder of Austin Metcalf in Texas and the explicitly racist stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina. The media did cover these stories, but only to paint the victims as somehow asking for it.

Honestly, you cannot despise the mainstream media enough. They are dead set on exploiting any story that has the vaguest shades of racism perpetrated by a white person. Now three women’s lives are completely derailed — after committing no actual crime.

Making monkey noises on a door camera in not a criminal act. No one was murdered, assaulted, or even threatened. Meanwhile, the York students made five calls to 911 before police finally came to help them.