This is a copy of an email that I sent to this "professor" at kcurtis@acpub.duke.edu
Schadenfreude. I never really appreciated the nuances of this word until I beheld the burgeoning fallout from this incident. I LOVE to see liberals like you hoisted on the petard of Political Correctness, racial identity politics, gender determinint feminism and what I have coined as "Tawana Brawley Syndrome".
TBS exists when one takes a historical reality such as the marginalization of innocent blacks within a once overtly racist crminal justice syndrome or the past subjagation of women or any number of other offenses and attempts to apply that to a contemporary situation wherein the objective facts don't apply; ala OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Anita Hill etc.
Aside from the fact that petty tyrants like you have turned US college campuses into little ivy covered North Koreas, I suspect that you were seeking to appropriate PC bonus points and obtain instant moral authority by championing the cause of the "other" (marginalized black exotic dancer) against racist male chauvinist members of the privliged white elite. A case of cultural Marxist Class warfare that boomeranged. GOD how I love it so!!!!!
Even though I despise the racial identity politics that mindlessly multicultural cultural Marxists like you have fostered amongst my people to our ultimate detriment, I would like to state that I am a black man living in the heart of Chicago's South Side ghetto, who values the rule of law and truth as best as it can be objectively and humanly determined.
It would be fitting if he gets a pretty penny from you.
TBS exists when one takes a historical reality such as the marginalization of innocent blacks within a once overtly racist crminal justice syndrome or the past subjagation of women or any number of other offenses and attempts to apply that to a contemporary situation wherein the objective facts don't apply; ala OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Anita Hill etc.
TBS. Good call. The marxists refer to TBS as "social justice" in order to remedy "social disaster".
Keep on standing tall and truth, DMZFrank. There's a lot of us standing right there with you.
The final disclosure, reluctantly, but wisely, included, will completely disarm Curtis.
I can just see her indignation rising as she reads the letter, imagining you to be a typical (to her way of thinking), self-interested, privileged white male, and then WHAM!, you shatter the stereotype by divulging your membership in one of her privileged groups, an "oppressed" (in marxist terms) minority.
Perhaps she'll find her way clear to dismissing you. After all, the left has had to deal for some time now with the likes of Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas and other black heroes of conservative thought, and they've used the most base epithets to attack them.
Nevertheless, your existence complicates things for the Kim Curtises of the world. It shatters their neat little dialectic. And that's a good thing.