But the settlement is with a private entity.
But the accusations were meant to indite [sic] all white middle-class young men. Therefore society is also a victim of this outrage
I hear what you're saying but it's free speech - I can take out an ad that says "I hate black midgets". If I libel somebody who's damaged, then that person can sue me.
Do you realize that your "society is a victim" reasoning is precisely the tool liberals use for most of their policies, which drives us conservatives up a wall? I don't think we want to adopt this argument for ourselves.
That is an opinion and not an accusation. If, however, you say black midgets are rapists you have engaged in not just a form of libel but of a false accusation.
...Do you realize that your "society is a victim" reasoning is precisely the tool liberals use for most of their policies...
Don't throw away the baby with the bath water - just because liberals abuse something doesn't make it bad. We used to put to death the murder and rapist - that certainly didn't benefit the victim much, but it was a deterrent to others and kept murders and rapist from doing it again. Murder and rape destroy a society!
The Old Testament legal remedy for male homosexual perversions was stoning. It kept them from recruiting others to their perversions and infecting the morals of society. In short it was because it was a crime against society, nature and nature's law (as given by nature's creator).
Further, what happened at Duke was a liberal lynching. It was a public abuse by public institutions against the students and the public. If the punishment for such a public crime is not public - no real deterrent will be applied, surely the result will be greater frequency of such abuses in the future.