The perpetrator is a liberal and only conservatives are racist. /sarcasm>
Posted on 02/20/2006 8:27:33 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA—A contributor to Cornell University’s “premier liberal voice” has been charged with stabbing a black student on the university’s campus after using “racial epithets” toward him.
According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Nathan Poffenbarger [Class of] '08, a regular contributor to the campus magazine, “Turn Left” was charged with second-degree assault, a class "D" felony, after allegedly stabbing a visiting student on West Campus during an altercation on Saturday (February 18).
Police said the attack stemmed from a racial incident.
“Witnesses told police Poffenbarger was yelling racial remarks at someone else, when the victim, a black male student, stepped in to stop him. The victim's name has not been released,” News10 reported.
According to the Ithaca Journal, Poffenbarger is white.
Capt. Kathy Zoner of the Cornell Police Department, told the Sun that the current charges could be elevated to class "C" under hate-crime statutes "if racial motivations are proven."
Wayne Huang , the former editor-in-chief of "Turn Left," confirmed that Poffenbarger was a regular contributor to the magazine. Huang and "Turn Left" staff member Josh Perlman both said they were “shocked” to learn Poffenbarger had been arrested in this matter:
"He had written a lot of good news pieces for us," said [Perlman]. "I had spoken to him earlier that day about a new article he was going to be doing. He didn't seem weird or anything when I spoke to him, just enthusiastic to be writing as he usually was. I was extremely shocked to hear about all this. This seems really out of character."According to "Turn Left’s" website, its mission statement is to “uphold and maintain tolerant and respectful political dialogue on the campus, promote and practice an ideology rooted in the belief of equality and freedom."
Emergency workers took the victim to Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira where he is in stable condition, the Sun reported.
The perpetrator is a liberal and only conservatives are racist. /sarcasm>
Those of us acquainted with the liberal mindset, however, have a different understanding of their character, and find it well within our expectations.
Isn't it a hate crime to accuse a liberal of a hate crime?
Liberals are so filled with rage and hatred.
I don't think that this qualifies as an example of the "soft racism of diminished expectations".
Nice mission, but nothing to do with leftism.
The account doesn't address a lot circumstances but anyone who deliberately stabs another should be charged with attempt murder, barring self defense, and if convicted do a lot of hard time, forget the hate crime controversy.
The most secretly racist and intolerant people I have ever met have all been liberals and democrats. Everything they like to say about Republicans is all projection.
Not possible. Liberals are victims of hate crimes, not perpetrators. The MSM tells us so, therefore it must be true.
I guarantee you will never, EVER see this story on the DU boards. :)
In the not too distant future we are going to see the libs in the streets with pitch forks and torches. Read more here Our Angry Left
A perfect bit of evidence as to the scariness of the whole "hate crime" thing--a crime is given more punishment if it is indicative of the criminal's characteristic behavior--i.e. if it displays thoughts and beliefs the criminal usually holds.
If this was in line with this guy's usual character--let's just say what this guy means, if he were a rightwing Republican--there would be no question, this would be stamped a hate crime right away. But this comment shows it is all about one's beliefs and philosophy as perceived by liberals, who of course don't hate ANYone based on race, sexual orientation, etc.
Just THINKING the wrong thing--or even being perceived as doing so by a judge and jury--is illegal under hate crimes laws.
Liberals are so filled with rage, hatred and ignorance.
Guess Nathan Poffenbarger thought someone was getting too uppity with him and a lesson need to be taught.
I have observed over the years that evil people often very vocally accuse their enemies of the same evil behavior that they have already committed, or are contemplating. IMHO
Most of the leftist communities here are like Apartheid Johannesburg, darks allowed to work the estates for pennies during day if properly supervised by a white foreman; arrested and beaten if caught within the boarders after sunset without their white foreman.
Leftists love minorities, as long as they live somewhere else and know their place in proper society.
The Klan never dreamed of the control the left has over minorities, and never wanted or expected those they oppressed to register and vote for their people.
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