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January 18, 2007
Phony Rape Déjà Vu
The disgusting attitude of Duke's Gang of 88 may seem unprecedented, but John Podhoretz recalls that we have seen it before.
By now even Osama bin Laden in his cave is aware that the railroaded Duke lacrosse players did not rape the drunken stripper who accused them, and that their actual crime was being Caucasians from nice families. Prosecutor Mike Nifong deliberately suppressed evidence in his attempt to lynch some white boys in return for black votes. Exposed and disgraced, Nifong is now off the case, and will soon be serving time for obstruction of justice, if there is any justice left in our decayed legal system to obstruct.
This is disappointing news for the 88 Duke professors who effectively declared the lacrosse players guilty last spring in an open letter in which they sanctimoniously raged about the imaginary demons that torment their shriveled minds. The athletes' fictional crimes inspired them to rave that
what is apparent every day now is the anger and fear of many students who know themselves to be objects of racism and sexism, who see illuminated in this moment's extraordinary spotlight what they live with everyday.
As for waiting to see if the drunken stripper really had been raped:
We're turning up the volume in a moment when some of the most vulnerable among us are being asked to quiet down while we wait. To the students speaking individually and to the protesters making collective noise, thank you for not waiting and for making yourselves heard.
Notes Stephen Baldwin, a Duke chemistry professor who has somehow managed to remain sane in the ivory tower nuthouse:
There was a collision between political correctness and due process, and political correctness won.
Now that we all know the drunken stripper has been lying, Duke faculty has issued a new statement, in which they address the disaster — but the false allegations are not what they mean by "the disaster":
The disaster is the atmosphere that allows sexism, racism and sexual violence to be so prevalent on campus… Whatever its conclusions, the legal process will not resolve these problems.
It appears the white boys will get away this time, but the air is still alive with these flapping demons called sexism and racism. The Duke profs thank the hysterical lynch mob students "who used the attention the incident generated to raise issues of discrimination and violence."
The athletes may be innocent, but only from a narrow-minded, literal point of view. In a deeper sense, they are guilty whether they did anything or not.
The 1988 Tawana Brawley hoax that launched the appalling career of race hustler Al Sharpton evoked a similar response from liberals. Okay, so Brawley — who now calls herself Maryam Muhammad — hadn't really been raped by racist white police officers. So she made the whole thing up and destroyed several innocent lives. Her story is still true in liberals' hearts. As the moonbat Justin Raimondo puts it, her outrageous lies were "figuratively and symbolically true."
That's good enough for Reverend Al — and for more than a few Duke professors.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 18, 2007 6:14 PM
Comments
So, a bunch of academics have come forward and said it's okay to lie about rape if it results in implementation of a broader, more important agenda.
And we're supposed to trust their word on issues like Global Warming.
Posted by: V the K at January 18, 2007 6:43 PM
It's "Fake but accurate" all over again
Posted by: Metalgarth at January 18, 2007 8:26 PM
It's liberalism to be frank. You can thank that for bringing the horror it has wrought on our once great society. Now we live in a multicultural/diverse world where nations don't matter, culture don't matter, morals don't matter, and race don't matter and we must not stop until we have imposed perfect equality even though we are not all equal. All this talk of "racism" and "sexism" is just code word for Marxism folks. Race is an important component of who we are, and so is nationhood, cultural upbringing, and moral upbringing, and people do care about these things and there's nothing wrong with that. This is an example of what they will do to ensure thier leftist vision of society comes to fruititon.
Posted by: Chris at January 18, 2007 10:14 PM
if jessie jackson or al sharpton comes any where near being a rev.
then I am god , if you get my drift.
Posted by: gene at January 21, 2007 1:04 PM
