There is a distinct new trend in the social agenda of the Left: it no longer matters who is innocent or guilty: charges are made, and they take the ball and run with it, because of the OPPORTUNITY it presents to "air" an "important issue"---one like this must have seemed irresistible: jocks, sexism, racism, monetary exploitation
(they probably didn't even pay her enough), etc.etc. Nifong proved to be the ideal engine that drove this "case":
it has been going on FOREVER, giving everyone the chance to jump on the bandwagon, and wring every ounce of social
significance out of it: or, on the other hand, jump off once it starts to look really bad and mishandled. This one is coming to a head, finally, rather quickly, after, what, 91/2 months? But the important thing is, the Left and people like Nifong, who twisted the case into nothing but a springboard for his own political ambition without even looking at its details, have been willing to simply let their version of what happened circulate out there in the public at large, because it served a political agenda. The fact that 99% of it will be proved UNPROVABLE if not a total lie, is irrelevant. The Left's contention is that IT COULD HAVE BEEN TRUE, IT MIGHT AS WELL BE TRUE, BECAUSE THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED BEFORE, AND AT LEAST WE GOT IT THE THING PUBLICIZED AND DISCUSSED AND THAT IS THE IMPORTANT THING. The fact that they put a bunch of young guys through the ringer and ruined their lives doesn't matter to the Left. It never did---for a hundred years they have been playing with people's lives like this.
These left wing profs viewed the Duke lacrosse (phony) rape incident as an opportunity to "educate the community" about the "issues of racism and sexism". Both of which run rampant in the "Duke community"
That's their neo Marxist phraseology
Three words: "Fake but accurate".