Posted on 04/16/2006 12:41:53 PM PDT by ncountylee
'We don't know all the facts about the alleged Duke lacrosse rape, but . . ."
That's more or less how most commentators have introduced their remarks on the case that has reduced the Durham, N.C., community to prayers, tears and recriminations.
Let me interpret the code for you: Men are bad.
Even though we don't know what happened, we're not going to let the absence of facts interfere with our indictment of a team, a coach, a school, but more to the point -- of boys.
About the only thing to emerge with any clarity since a black exotic dancer claimed that three white lacrosse players raped her last month is our willingness to believe the worst about males.
That belief is all the more rewarding if the males happen to be white, as well as athletes, and especially if they're perceived to be privileged. If there's one thing we can't bear in this country, it's spoiled white boys who think the world owes them a good time.
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While we wait to hear what the grand jury decides, we might turn our harsh judgment inward and recognize that the anti-male groupthink that permitted a presumption of guilt in Durham is little different than the lynch-mob mentality that once channeled rage against blacks.
Obviously, no woman deserves to be raped for any reason, under any circumstances. But nor do men deserve to be presumed guilty just because they're men.
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I suppose not, but if she dances around naked for their sexual stimulation and then gets drunk and passes out, my outrage is mitigated to an awful large degree. If that is not what happened, my apologies, but there it is.
It's a bunch of rich, white athletes.
What did you expect?
Tawana Brawley redux!
BTW, I hear Jesse Jackson is going to use Rainbow/PUSH money to pay for the stripper's education.
This "case" may well terminate with the refusal of the stripper to testify.....and it looks like the reasons for such refusal are accumulating.....her statements seem to be the sole "evidence" thus far......and news reports already say she has left town.
Would your outrage be any less mitigated if she hadn't passed out?
I gather from your comment you are saying a woman is fair game if she passes out. That would not be an argument I would want to see a defense attorney make in a court of law.
What of Kobe Bryant? There, the blackness of the perp tops the "woman" factor quite roundly.
-->WHITE men are bad.<--
North Carolina is bad, the South is bad, Duke is bad, white men are bad.
If you get forcibly raped by a bunch of men because they decided they wanted to rape someone, I am outraged.
If you get forcibly raped by a bunch of men because you danced before them naked in order to turn them on, I'm very disgusted with them and rather disgusted with you too.
If you get raped because you danced before a bunch of men, got them horny, and then passed out, I have a great deal of contempt for the whole lot of you.
Those are my feelings on the matter. If you are getting ready to lecture me on how I should feel, do not waste your time.
Lacrosse, overwhelmingly a white man's sport, is bad. So are cricket, yachting, and polo.
Ironic in that Lacrosse is, in origin, a Native America/ America Indian sport
Thats about right.
She's not being accused of doing anything unlawful involving the incident, they are.
They can feel free to punch folks, or maybe kill them.
That's only IF they feel bad about it later, though. Or can be shown to have been feeling rage, err, --righteous anger-- at the time of commission the act.
Hey, if I smoke a cigarette at a booby show at an Indian casino, am I MULTICULTURAL...?
A stretch, maybe?
Right or wrong, lie or truth, it got her tuition paid, courtesy of Jesse J and the Rainbow Coalition.
[Wonder whether he will be so generous to and show his concern for the apparently-innocent, apparently-falsely-accused white boys?]
Rape is the only crime for which large numbers of people, including some on this forum, refuse to believe that the victim can possibly bear any responsibility for what happens. Regardless of what she does, she by definition has NO responsibility for what happens. They seem to think that recognizing that a victim's actions contributed to what happened somehow reduces the perps' responsibility.
I find this attitude highly bizarre, although I realize that it is an over-reaction to the old defense that "she was asking for it," which is equally irrational.
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