When #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter collide

SAN DIEGO — The “woke” have become a joke. The Left is devouring itself.

It happened when #MeToo collided with #BlackLivesMatter.

The collision of hashtags — caught on video and now viewed by more than 6 million people — occurred on a street corner in Brooklyn, N.Y., in front of a convenience store.

A white woman, Teresa Klein, 53, accused an African-American boy, 9, of groping her. Klein yelled she had been sexually assaulted, and the boy was the offender. When the boy’s mother yelled back at Klein, our “victim” did what a lot of white people do when dealing with black people: She called 911.

Apparently, that’s a thing. When in doubt, call the cops. Police removed two black men from a Philadelphia Starbucks as they waited to begin a business meeting. An African-American graduate student at Yale University who fell asleep in the common room of a dormitory was questioned by police after a fellow student reported her. In California, an African-American girl, 8, was turned in for selling water outside her apartment building without a permit.

Liberals and conservatives are always saying that we need to be colorblind. How’s that working out?

White people are weaponizing law enforcement against black people, for perceived offenses big and small.

Here’s how Klein’s “emergency” call went:

“I was just sexually assaulted by a child,” Klein told the dispatcher. In the background, the traumatized boy was crying hysterically. Meanwhile, our “victim” kept saying: “I’m calling the police! I’m calling the police!” Through it all, the boy’s mother appeared to be caught between anger and disbelief.

“The son grabbed my ass and she decided to yell at me,” Klein told the 911 operator, referring to the boy’s mother.

The message of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, and the dramatic testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, is that women who claim to be victims of sexual assault must always be believed. Always.

I believed Ford. I also believed Kavanaugh. I think each was giving us their truth, as they knew it.

I’m ashamed at how slow men have been to figure out how widespread the problem is. We have to take sexual assault against women more seriously.

Media creeps, I’m looking at you. We have now learned that there have been plenty of instances where a reporter, editor, anchor, or commentator takes advantage of his fame — and then has the gall to go before the camera and sit in judgment over accused individuals like Kavanaugh.

Still, I’m not all-in on the idea that every woman should be believed. It’s difficult to be a Hispanic or African-American male, knowing, how often we’ve been wrongly accused of crimes we didn’t commit, especially those of a sexual nature, to go along with the idea that everything a woman says is true.

For those who insist women don’t make this stuff up or imagine assaults that never occurred, does that include Klein? If so, you might want to rethink that.

What does all this have to do with hashtags? A lot of women are on edge in the #MeToo era. After years of not reporting sexual assaults, some now have a hairtrigger for anything that comes close. This is also the #BlackLivesMatter era, and African-Americans are also on edge. They helped spread the video showing what Klein had done. No one is going to put up with anything from anyone anymore.

Klein has since returned to the store to view security-camera footage. What brushed up against her was the boy’s backpack. According to the footage, the boy didn’t touch her. No harm, no foul.

Klein acknowledged as much to reporters, before looking into a camera and apologizing publicly to the boy. “Young man, I don’t know your name,” she said. “But I’m sorry.”

What a mess. Are we enlightened yet?