Posted on 12/12/2014 3:33:09 PM PST by billorites
The university is often said to be the first place in our society to look for the truth. Unfortunately, it is now one of the last places to find it.
Events surrounding a recent Rolling Stone article that chronicles an account of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity make clear how little the critical spirit operates today on our nation’s campuses. The story, which Rolling Stone no longer supports, begged to be treated with skepticism. Appearing in a magazine that trades in sensationalism—last year it put a glamour photo of the Boston marathon bomber on its cover—the narrative is so pat and faithful to a formula that common sense dictated caution. And most readers, one suspects, did feel at least a tinge of suspicion. Yet opinion leaders and campus activists across the nation quickly embraced the story as gospel truth, with some looking to convert it into a national movement to stem sexual violence.
At the epicenter of this event is the University of Virginia, where I have taught for over three decades. Jefferson’s campus became the site of rallies, demonstrations, constant social network exchanges, and endless meetings at all levels. A discourse or rhetoric began to develop that alternated expressions of rage with pleas for compassion. Apologies were issued all the way from the university’s Board of Visitors down to informal groups gathered on the campus grounds.
To be in the midst of an occurrence of this kind is to appreciate just how powerful is the force of the crowd.
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I’m an award-winning journalist, but sometimes I mix up narrative and dialogue and points of view, so forgive me. But I’m a really good judge of character, with a great “BS meter” so I’m sure this story is 100% true.
A male freshman from an Ivy League school recently confided to me that he had been raped by seven female staff in the faculty lounge. Raped with objects. Viciously. For three hours. He had been tricked into going there ostensibly to go over his Psychology 101 term paper, which was getting an “F” because it did not seem to support homosexual marriage and trans-gender rights sincerely enough.
When he arrived at the staff lounge, he was hit from behind with a softball bat. He crashed to the floor, breaking a glass table, and then he lost consciousness. But when he came-to, he found himself on the floor a midst the glass, being held face-down and raped by the seven female profs. Raped with objects imaginable and unimaginable. He remembered some of their voices, knew them from other courses, and this is what they said, while they did it to him. In the broken glass.
One of them named “Sandy” said, “Think gays don’t deserve equal rights? Try this one for size!”
One of them named Gretchen came at him with a ...
How is my version of a politically-motivated false narrative any more or less credible than “Jackie’s?” Add UVA to Duke, Dunham, and all of the proven-false anti-male and anti-white hoaxes on college campuses. I could list dozens of “noose incidents” and “graffiti vandalism” which turned out to have been done by leftists to smear their ideological enemies. But these false-flag smears rarely get a mention in the Mainstream Media ... once they are exposed as hoaxes conducted by leftists.
UVA 1979
Four generations of commies on campus, sitting in the faculty senate, can destroy any pretensions of academic freedom.
The mobbing of Dr. Watson is a case in point.
You win John Semmens Award ;’)
Further proof (as if more is necessary) that LIBs are mentally impaired.
Another “Fake but Accurate” incident.
The story may not be true, but it is to be believed because it fits the narrative. Successful branding methods.
“But these false-flag smears rarely get a mention in the Mainstream Media ... once they are exposed as hoaxes conducted by leftists.”
of course they’re not, as that would call into question the MSM agenda of bigotry against non-minorities.
That has bugged me about this story - since when is Rolling Stone considered a serious journalistic endeavor?
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