Let’s get this out of the way. What Alaina Kunes did was stupid. On November 6, the 18-year-old from southeastern Wisconsin was caught on a Ring camera walking past an off-campus apartment near Ole Miss, beating her chest and making ape noises at the door. Three Black freshmen lived there. It was a dumb, youthful mistake.
Then she did what we tell our kids to do when they mess up. The residents told CBS News they went outside to confront the group, and Kunes apologized right there. Four days later, she issued a public apology saying she had never met the women, didn’t know their race, and that what she did was “insensitive, inappropriate, and deeply harmful.”
It didn’t matter to the woke mob. The video passed 12 million views. She says her family has received death threats. By Wednesday, she withdrew from the university over what a family source called safety and harassment concerns. Ole Miss is still investigating.
Nobody has charged her with a crime because making an obnoxious noise at a doorbell isn’t a crime. She has still lost her school and her privacy over what should be a trivial, embarrassing moment.
Now look at how the same crowd treats people who actually hurt somebody.
On November 1, University of Michigan student Temulun Togochog was filmed shoving conservative commentator Liz Benichou to the ground at a campus tabling event. As police took her away, she shouted that she should have killed Benichou, according to Michigan News Source. She is charged with a felony count of resisting police and two misdemeanor assault counts. She walked out on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond. The university says violence “has no place on our campus” but won’t say whether she has been suspended. Kunes made a noise, and she’s gone. Togochog put a woman on the pavement and, as far as the public has been told, is still a Wolverine.
It’s not just Michigan. UW-Stevens Point soccer player Paige Ostroushko and her parents were federally indicted in April for allegedly assaulting Turning Point USA reporter Savanah Hernandez at an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota. UWSP couldn’t be bothered to comment, according to the Heartland Post. It just quietly removed her from the women’s soccer roster page. Ole Miss, meanwhile, sent a campus-wide email condemning racism within two days of the Kunes video.
In January 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three young children in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. Her defense was postpartum psychosis. Her trial ended in a mistrial in September with jurors deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of acquitting her by reason of insanity. Three dead kids and eleven of twelve jurors were ready to call it not guilty.
In August 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, was stabbed to death on Charlotte’s light rail. The man charged, DeCarlos Brown Jr., had been arrested at least 14 times. In January, a magistrate released him on a written promise to appear. Much of the national press barely touched it until the video came out and the White House called them out for it.
In Chicago, Bethany MaGee was set on fire on a CTA Blue Line train. The man charged, Lawrence Reed, has been arrested more than 70 times. A Cook County judge had let him out on an ankle monitor. That judge, Teresa Molina-Gonzalez, was kept on the bench by 71 percent of voters on November 3.
See the pattern? When a white college girl makes a noise that the mob can call ‘racist’, it’s a national news story. The university investigates, the networks book interviews, and the woke mob goes after her family’s business. When the victim is a white woman on a train, and the man charged is a repeat offender somebody chose to let loose, the coverage is regional at best. His mental health becomes the headline, the journos write process stories starting with the words “Republicans Pounce…” and the judge gets reelected.
Swap the races in the Zarutska case and ask yourself if anyone would have needed a video to find the story.
None of this means Kunes gets a complete pass. She had an embarrassing moment, owed those women an apology, and she gave it. That’s what accountability looks like for a teenager who did something dumb. What she got was a digital firing squad, while leftists who are actually violent and kill get the benefit of every doubt.
Justice that depends on who you are and which side of the left’s ledger you land on isn’t justice. It’s a double standard, and Wisconsin families should be the first to say so.
