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Opinion:   Have we entered a period in American history much like the Salem Witch Trials where hysteria overtakes reason and intellectual analysis?     Do some of us expect to be treated one way and when we perceive to have a treatment that could be perceived that way, do we make assumptions and transfer our own fears and bigotry onto others?    Have we reached the point of mindlessness that crying racism over an event that isn't in anyway actually racism just a product of a culture that makes martyrs out of victims and punishes truly innocent conduct? Has it actually now become fashionable and chic to fabricate events to shape them into something that really never happened so that we can achieve street cred and to fit a preconceived storyline that fits a political agenda? One of the richest and best known women in the world claims she experiences racism in a supposed progressive European nation in a high brow store from a clerk that has been described as specifically trained and used to handling spoiled celebrities? Or, instead of just overreacting to something that she mistook as racism, did Oprah do what is all the rage these days and claim racism in a situation where none ever existed?    After all, she is a huge supporter of a President who has fabricated racism on several occasions and exploited it for his own political gain.    From throwing his white grandmother under the bus to falsely accusing police of "acting stupidly" when it came to a black professor who actually did what he was accused of doing, we have a culture now of crying wolf just for the sport of it.     BBC - The owner of a shop in Zurich where US talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she encountered racism has called the incident a "misunderstanding". Winfrey, one of the world's richest women, claimed an assistant refused to serve her in an upmarket handbag shop. She was apparently told one of the bags on display was "too expensive" for her. Shop owner Trudie Gotz told the BBC that Winfrey was "absolutely allowed" to look at the $35,000 (£22,500) bag, which was kept behind a screen. "My salesperson wanted to give her the handbag in her hand. But she didn't want to take the bag," claimed Gotz. She said her assistant had worked in the Trois Pommes store "for a few years and takes care of the most spoilt customers from all over the world", adding, "she is really a correct sales person". 'Didn't understand' Winfrey, who stars in Lee Daniels' new film The Butler, visited Zurich last month to attend singer Tina Turner's wedding. Her programme The Oprah Winfrey Show is not shown in Switzerland. Speaking to US TV show Entertainment Tonight, she said: "I go into a store and I say to the woman, 'Excuse me, may I see the bag right above your head?' and she says to me, 'No. It's too expensive.'" Oprah Winfrey The star made an estimated $77m last year When Winfrey insisted, the shop assistant allegedly replied: "No, no you don't want to see that one, you want to see this one because that one will cost too much. You will not be able to afford that." The star said she left the shop calmly without arguing, but that the experience was proof that racism continues to be a problem. "There's two different ways to handle it," she said. "I could've had the whole blow-up thing... but it still exists, of course it does." Ms Gotz did not call into question Winfrey's perception of the events. "I didn't take care of [Winfrey]. I'm sure she felt like this - but my salesgirl promised me she took care of [her] really the best she could. So it must have been a misunderstanding," she said. Ms Gotz said her assistant spoke both Italian and English, "but her English isn't as good". "She tried to show Mrs Oprah the same style in other qualities, because maybe she didn't understand what she wanted." Winfrey's claims come amid a political row over plans by some Swiss towns to ban asylum-seekers from some public places. The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Berne says human rights groups have likened the plans - which include banning asylum-seekers from swimming pools, playing fields and libraries - to apartheid. Officials say the curbs, which will also see asylum-seekers housed in special centres, are aimed at preventing tensions with residents. About 48,000 people are currently seeking asylum in Switzerland. It has twice as many asylum seekers as the European average. Winfrey's interview is a public relations disaster for Switzerland, our correspondent says.