Posted on 12/02/2014 1:22:40 PM PST by Kaslin
In case you missed it over the weekend, Georgetown University student Oliver Friedfeld was mugged at gunpoint by in Washington D.C. Instead of pressing charges or expressing anger toward his attacker, Friedfeld said he "deserved" to be beat up because of his "privilege." He also said Americans should expect an occasional mugging or break-in because of the sins of their ancestors. More from Campus Reform:
A Georgetown University (GU) student who says he was mugged at gunpoint says he “can hardly blame" his assailants.
Senior Oliver Friedfeld and his roommate were held at gunpoint and mugged recently. However, the GU student isn’t upset. In fact he says he “can hardly blame [his muggers].”
“Not once did I consider our attackers to be ‘bad people.’ I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me. In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay,” wrote Friedfeld in an editorial featured in The Hoya, the university’s newspaper. “The fact that these two kids, who appeared younger than I, have even had to entertain these questions suggests their universes are light years away from mine.”
Friedfeld claims it is the pronounced inequality gap in Washington, D.C. that has fueled these types of crimes. He also says that as a middle-class man, he does not have the right to judge his muggers.
“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’” asks Friedfeld. “It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”
“The millennial generation is taking over the reins of the world, and thus we are presented with a wonderful opportunity to right some of the wrongs of the past,” writes Friedfeld. “Until we do so, we should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins. I can hardly blame them. The cards are all in our hands, and we’re not playing them.”
Welcome to Obama's pajama boy America. As a millennial, I couldn't disagree more with Friedfeld's argument that we must "get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins." Carrying out crimes like these, no matter who you are, is unacceptable and should be condemned. Condoning criminal behavior makes the problem worse.
Over to you, Kurt Schlichter:
Kurt Schlichter on Check Your Privilege
Deserves much worse because of HIS STUPIDITY!!!
Hey, let us know when he’s out here in the west.
We’d like to mug him also.
Just for a bit of general enjoyment.
After all, we know that he’s 1) not very bright, 2) a wimp, and 3) not armed.
They got muggers privilege.
Well they had to, he had transgressed the Unwritten Law.
I think Douchebag of the Year is better myself.
Suspect as he roams into other areas of D.C. he may get more of what he deserves.
Progressives means “really really stupid” in some ancient languages.
Freegards
LEX
He deserves to have his stupid liberal butt soundly kicked.
Someone that stupid got admitted to Georgetown, eh?
Are you ashamed YET, Catholic Church??
So...using Pajama Boy’s logic ALL English men today are responsible for the Irish famine of 1847.
ALL Japanese today are responsible for the nightmares committed in China.
ALL Russians today are responsible...etc., etc.,
This kid is such a fool. Perhaps if he was beaten within an inch of his life he’d ask himself is he really deserved such treatment due an an ancestor or two.
He was the idiot who had “Kick Me” signs constantly taped to his back in high school. College too, probably.
He's got money and he won't call the cops.
Don't think it's a matter of if, but when.
Yeah, I know douchebag is supposed to mean SOB these days.
But when I was a kid in New Jersey it meant...pajamaboy.
Dude. You aren't playing with a full deck.
...recently placed on the Darwin Award Watchlist.
Just when I thought people couldn’t get anymore asinine.
Too bad he couldn’t have taken the place of the young man in Missouri who got beaten to death with hammers . . .
They should have knocked some sense into him.
They still eating those shrooms? I thought they went out of style with the hippies.
If its not shrooms it sure is some other kind of helluva drug.
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