Posted on 06/13/2017 5:28:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Duke is the most fundamentally racist and sexist university in America. If you don’t believe me just ask Paul Griffiths – an Oxford educated now-former Professor at Duke Divinity School (DDS). Just last semester, Griffiths, who is white, expressed opposition to a Racial Equity Institute “diversity” program that was being pushed by one of his so-called colleagues. Expressing his opposition to the program resulted in a charge of racial and sexual harassment by a white colleague named Thea Portier-Young. Rather than face a kangaroo court that refused to provide him documentation of relevant evidence in advance of his hearing, Griffiths resigned his tenured position.
To be sure, the decision of Griffiths to resign rather than fight has been met with sharp criticism. But critics of Griffiths seem to have forgotten what happens to people at Duke when unsupported charges are leveled against them. Lest we forget what history has taught us, let us review the actions of the campus community at Duke University beginning over a decade ago in the wake of the Duke lacrosse scandal.
After a lying criminal named Crystal Magnum accused two, then three, then four, then five, then six, then twenty white lacrosse players of raping her she finally settled on a version of events in which she was raped by three white lacrosse players. Later, she was unable to identify any of them from a comprehensive set of photos of players then on the team. By this point, it was clear she was lying. The campus should have come to the defense of the falsely accused students. But what happened next? Here are some highlights:
-Larry Moneta, vice president of student affairs at Duke, told a defense attorney that he thought the boys were guilty, despite the clear contradictions in Magnum’s story.
-Professor Tim Tyson protested outside the home of the Duke lacrosse captain. He later stated, “The spirit of the lynch mob lived in that house.” He added the asinine remark that it was probably “illegal” for the accused players to refuse to talk to the police without a lawyer.
-Professor Houston Baker demanded the dismissal of all 46 Duke lacrosse players - and dismissed the presumption of innocence as a “tepid legalism.”
-Professor Kim Curtis lowered the grades of two innocent lacrosse players in her class. She then joined a protest march in the neighborhoods of the innocent students.
-Emboldened by their professors, Duke students marched on campus with signs calling for innocent players to be castrated.
-Duke President Broadhead cancelled the lacrosse season and forced a completely innocent coach to resign.
-Broadhead then accused the innocent players of advancing “dehumanization,” “racial oppression,” – and then, bizarrely, “wealth,” “privilege,” and “attitudes of superiority.”
-A group of 88 professors then promised their condemnation of the innocent students would not end “with what the police or court decides.”
-After an ATM video cleared one accused rapist - and DNA analysis cleared everyone else – Duke President Broadhead said, “if our students did what is alleged, it is appalling in the first degree. If they didn’t do it, whatever they did is bad enough.”
-After all the players were cleared, 10 Duke sociology professors condemned them in an open letter declaring, “sexual assault is endemic” at Duke.
-Professor Paula McLain was then rewarded for her vocal role in falsely accusing the lacrosse players. Lauding her “concern for the individual well-being of students” Duke promoted her to dean of Duke Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education.
-In the wake of their unsuccessful 2006 witch hunt against the lacrosse players, Duke made policy changes that would make it easier to launch future witch hunts. Their 2009 “zero tolerance” policy included a new definition of rape, which warned that “Real or perceived power differentials between individuals may create an unintentional atmosphere of coercion.”
-Sheila Broderick, Duke’s gender violence intervention services coordinator, warned that when the campus judiciary acquitted an accused rapist “you and I know that he’s responsible, and that’s at the end of the day what really matters.” In other words, everyone is guilty of rape when accused.
-Duke then implemented a new training program to teach those who sit on sexual assault disciplinary panels that less than 2 percent of all sexual assault allegations are false. Duke also changed the sexual assault sanctions to allow for the expulsion of students who engaged in mere kissing without affirmative consent.
-A newly trained Duke rape tribunal then found a drunken male student who had sex with a drunken female student guilty of rape. Coercion was assumed because she was drunk. After his expulsion was recommended, the student’s lawyer pointed out that the presumption of non-consent based on drunkenness would mean that he was also raped by the woman he was accused of raping. Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek responded by saying, “It’s the responsibility in the case of the male to gain consent before proceeding with sex.”
Looking back at what happened in the case of the Duke lacrosse team, and subsequent changes in campus judiciary procedures, there are at least three reasonable inferences one can draw:
1. Duke’s obsession with racial politics guarantees that anyone accused of racism will be lynched in the Duke “community.”
2. Duke’s obsession with sexual politics guarantees that anyone accused of sexual assault or sexual harassment will be deprived of any semblance of due process or fair treatment.
3. In a case that involves both racial and sexual politics, the peril to the accused is exponentially increased.
So does anyone have any questions about why Professor Griffiths resigned instead of facing trumped up charges of racial and sexual harassment by a thin-skinned leftist professor with tenure?
Author’s note: I would like to thank K.C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor for their excellent overview of facts in the Duke lacrosse case inThe Campus Rape Frenzy For additional context and documentation on the Paul Griffiths case, see “Divinity and Diversity I-IV” on www.RightlyOffended.com.
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What the colleges do now, is what the government would do if led by marxists.
The humanities and social sciences at most universities are not scholarly endeavors. They are crass propaganda units determined to terrorize, demoralize and delegitimize opposition to their Marxist agenda. Eventually decent people in and out of “academia” will have to confront and destroy this threat to American culture.
why bother going to college, if one has ‘privilege’?? the risk of being falsely accused would seem quite high. Not to mention having to go to class and listen to some far-left windbag bash the ‘privileged’ for 4 years.
The courts have tossed out tenure. Why can’t Duke use that to its benefit and toss out Griffiths?
>>what happens to people at Duke when unsupported charges are leveled against them.
Support? Who need that when progresses have “feelings”.
“The Truth? I don’t need to know the truth - I have kids”
—A. MarxBankster
>>what happens to people at Duke when unsupported charges are leveled against them.
Support? Who need that when progressives have “feelings”.
“The Truth? I don’t need to know the truth - I have kids”
—A. MarxBankster
Big question not addressed
How has Duke suffered?
Another data point proving it’s a waste of time and money to go to college. Take some classes - yes; get a degree - no.
Become a plumber, and invest in real estate near the university. Rent to graduate students, and become a multi-millionaire.
Let the “smart” kids spend $60K a year, for four years so they can sit in a cubicle for the rest of their lives making $40K - until their clerk job moves overseas.
“The humanities and social sciences at most universities are not scholarly endeavors. “
I could not agree more. It’s long past time to give different names to degrees in these joke studies areas. Any STEM grad knows that they undergo far more rigorous studies in order to obtain the B.S. MSc or PhD title. And it galls a lot of us to see some bimbo who couldn’t hold a job at Starbucks utter some inane drivel under the title of “Professor”.
Apologies to all of those who studied lib arts during the times when it was a demanding academic discipline. As we say to Muslims, “clean your damned house” if you want respect.
Very true. Not all PhDs are equal but you can bet your bottom dollar that a legitimate Professor of Mathematics is paid the same as a Professor of Women”s Studies. This is what happens when you worship the god of diversity and “fairness”.
Medical, science, and business professors make much more because they bring in more money to a university. They also have private opportunities for big-money research not available to indoctrinators of PC subjects.
I have a late uncle who made a pretty large fortune with research and patents in engineering and math.
Big mistake. It may not have been in his nature, but he should have stood firm and got loud. Academics are paradoxically the most ideological and narrow-minded people you will meet, but they are often the most spineless too.
That's quite a title! And the existence of such an office is one reason Duke costs in the neighborhood of $75K annually.
There is a definite need to break up the education monopoly. The monolithic thinking that it presents is stifling individuality and trampling on our freedoms.
This goes not only for college-level education, but K-12 as well.
Thanks for the ping Kaslin.
Academia is another swamp that needs to be drained. It is a major breeding ground for future swamp dwellers.
In 1964, the average SAT score of freshmen admitted to UMass-Amherst was 1050. Then they “re-normed” the SAT score by adding 200 gratuitous points. The average SAT score now is 920, or 720 before “norming.”
My pleasure!
Now that is a title, Herr Joseph Goebbels wished had, thought of!
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