Ping. Will be posting the rest of today's new stuff shortly.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...007/CUSTOMPUB21
Tom Ehrich
Duke scandal is a lens into troubling flaws of our society
January 20, 2007
DURHAM, N.C. -- Now that our local district attorney has asked a state prosecutor to take over assault charges against three Duke University lacrosse players, it seems an even chance that the case will simply go away.
Many want exactly that. The alleged victim would lose her day in court. The alleged assailants would carry into adulthood and every job interview unanswered questions about their actions and character.
No one would have to listen to detailed accounts of an attack, lacrosse team parties, racist slurs, assaults on women or arrogant attitudes among the privileged. No witnesses would describe a university's hard- partying culture.
Better, they seem to think, to let unanswered questions haunt accuser, accused, the university and the community than to hear unflattering testimony about life as it is.
Certainly, if criminal charges are unfounded, they should be dropped. But it would be a tragic outcome to an important series of events if the whole matter vanished as well. For the "Duke lacrosse rape scandal" has never been just about rape, lacrosse or even Duke.
The firestorm that erupted last March revealed deep fissures in our city, disturbing questions about our largest employer and far-reaching questions about our society: out-of-control drinking, attitudes of entitlement, helicopter parenting, racist attitudes among tomorrow's leaders, boorish behavior toward women and market-minded leaders who seemed reluctant to probe for deeper meanings.
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The PC Elite essentially have their panties down around their ankles, by their own hands, and are screaming that a rape is about to occur. Wishful thinking? Their ideology and pedogogy suggests this is exactly what they wish to happen to themselves or that it will happen, or that they hope it will happen. Only then, as their arguments show, only then can they prove that America is out to rape them.
I'd suggest psychotherapy for these people; but psychotherapy has become just as mentally unhinged alongside the PC Elite. It'd merely be a lovefest, and with no constructive purpose.
The liberals around SF Bay Area now have "peace" colleges specifically designed for those who are fixed and adoring of "domestic terrorists". Perhaps the PC Elite, in this case, should apply to teach at those colleges.
And John Kerry could schedule regular "speaking visits" at easily $40K a pop. ;>
I hope you write a book about this someday. I want an autographed copy!
Wow. This is real dime store heaving breasts bodice buster stuff.