Do you have any idea how many Romance novels are pubished every year? (Over 2,200 in 2004)
It's a growth market.
Posted on 06/27/2007 9:16:51 AM PDT by FreeManDC
The three lacrosse players have been declared innocent, Duke University has agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement, and Michael Nifong's law license has been yanked. But unfinished business remains.
Three weeks after Crystal Gail Mangum made her false allegations of rape, 88 Duke professors ran an advertisement in the student newspaper asking, What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?
The rambling April 6, 2006 statement lamented, "...no one is really talking about how to keep the young woman herself central to this conversation, how to keep her humanity before us." But no mention was made about the humanity of three male students falsely accused of rape.
Worse, the professors' manifesto used the logic of the lynch mob, fostering the notion that since a Black woman claimed to be a victim of rape, everyone at Duke was now tinged with racism: "We go to class with racist classmates, we go to gym with people who are racists. It's part of the experience."
Exactly who are the members of the Duke 88 and what is their agenda?
The most vitriolic member of the bunch was professor Houston Baker, who repeatedly indulged in racist and sexist claims. In his letter to Duke provost Peter Lange, Baker charged, "Young, white, violent, drunken men among us - implicitly boasted by our athletic directors and administrators - have injured lives."
Young, violent, drunken men among us - Dr. Baker, that's the language of the KKK, not of a university teacher.
Karla Holloway, chair of the university's Race Subcommittee, justified her membership in the Duke 88 because she desired to express her support for "all" students at Duke. When asked whether her support for all students included the beleaguered lacrosse players, she refused to answer.
When Crystal Gail Mangum changed her story for the umpteenth time and the case had more holes than the frayed netting of a lacrosse stick, the Duke 88 fell back on their neo-Marxist slogans and stereotypes.
History professor William Chafe made the claim that "Sex and race have always interacted in a vicious chemistry of power, privilege, and control." Somehow Dr. Chafe forgot his history lessons about the notorious case of the Scottsboro Boys, the nine Black teenagers who were falsely accused of rape in 1931.
Wahneema Lubiano outrageously argued the lacrosse players were probably guilty since they were "the exemplars of the upper end of the class hierarchy, the politically dominant race and ethnicity, the dominant gender, the dominant sexuality, and the dominant social group on campus."
Rich, white, male, and heterosexual - yep, guilty as charged.
So when the DNA tests failed to link Mangum to any of the lacrosse players, Lubiano pooh-poohed the news as part of a "demand for perfect evidence on the part of the defenders of the team."
Likewise, professor Thavolia Glymph fretted the DNA results would cause the Duke 88's crusade to transform the campus to start "moving backwards."
And even after her radical leftist colleagues fell under withering criticism, Gang of 88 member Paula McClain refused to express remorse. "I'm not going to be intimidated into modulating speech," she retorted.
And for real entertainment, a visit to the websites of the Duke 88 provides a revealing glimpse into the mindset of these academic elites.
Like professor Kathy Rudy's website that reports she is "Currently workig on a new project critiquing animal rights from speciesist persective."
Speciesist perspective? Workig?? Thank goodness this black-gowned agitator is teaching women's studies, not English spelling and grammar.
And literature professor Antonio Viego, whose website proudly announces he specializes in "queer ethnic studies and lesbian and gay theory." Parents, have you ever wondered where your $34,000 tuition money is going?
The Duke 88 advertisement marked a critical turning point in the Mangum rape case. It condoned the actions of the campus potbangers, hardened racial divisions in the Durham community, and provided fodder for Michael Nifong's re-election campaign.
And just 12 days after their statement came out, two members of the lacrosse team were arrested on charges of rape, first degree sexual offense, and kidnapping. A month later, a third player was indicted.
A year later, these young men have been declared innocent and a semblance of normalcy restored to their lives. But their names and reputations are forever associated with a heinous crime.
Meanwhile, the identities of the Duke 88 remain unknown to the public, their deed of infamy hidden behind the cloak of anonymity and plausible deniability.
So let it be said that these 88 men and women acted in a scurrilous manner to foster race hysteria, inflame gender relationships, and trample on the due process protections for three men falsely accused of the crime of rape:
1. Stan Abe - Art, Art History, and Visual Studies 2. Benjamin Albers - University Writing Program 3. Anne Allison - Cultural Anthropology 4. Srinivas Aravamudan - English 5. Houston Baker - English and African & African-American Studies 6. Lee Baker - Cultural Anthropology 7. Christine Beaule - University Writing Program 8. Sarah Beckwith - English 9. Paul Berliner - Music 10. Connie Blackmore - African & African-American Studies 11. Jessica Boa - Religion & University Writing Program 12. Mary T. Boatwright - Classical Studies 13. Silvia Boero - Romance Studies 14. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva - Sociology 15. Matthew Brim - University Writing Program 16. William Chafe - History 17. Leo Ching - Asian & African Languages 18. Rom Coles - Political Science 19. Miriam Cooke - Asian & African Languages 20. Michaeline Crichlow - African & African-American Studies 21. Kim Curtis - Political Science 22. Leslie Damasceno - Romance Studies 23. Cathy Davidson - English 24. Sarah Deutsch - History 25. Ariel Dorfman - Literature & Latin American Studies 26. Laura Edwards - History 27. Grant Farred - Literature 28. Luciana Fellini - Romance Studies 29. Mary McClintock Fulkerson - Divinity School 30. Esther Gabara - Romance Studies 31. Raymond Gavins - History 32. Meg Greer - Romance Studies 33. Thavolia Glymph - History 34. Michael Hardt - Literature 35. Joseph Harris - University Writing Program 36. Karla Holloway - English 37. Bayo Holsey - African & African-American Studies 38. Mary Hovsepian - Sociology 39. Sherman James - Public Policy 40. Alice Kaplan - Literature 41. Keval Kaur Khalsa - Dance Program 42. Ranjana Khanna - English 43. Ashley King - Romance Studies 44. Claudia Koonz - History 45. Peter Lasch - Art, Art History 46. Dan A. Lee - Math 47. Pat Leighten - Art, Art History, and Visual Studies 48. Frank Lentricchia - Literature 49. Caroline Light - Institute for Critical U.S. Studies 50. Marcy Litle - Comparative Area Studies 51. Ralph Litzinger - Cultural Anthropology 52. Michele Longino - Romance Studies 53. Wahneema Lubiano - African & African-American Studies and Literature 54. Kenneth Maffitt - History 55. Jason Mahn - University Writing Program 56. Anne-Maria Makhulu - African & African-American Studies 57. Lisa Mason - Surgical Unit-2100 58. Paula McClain - Political Science 59. Louise Meintjes - Music 60. Walter Mignolo - Literature and Romance Studies 61. Alberto Moreiras - Romance Studies 62. Mark Anthony Neal - African & African-American Studies 63. Diane Nelson - Cultural Anthropology 64. Jolie Olcott - History 65. Liliana Parades - Romance Studies 66. Charles Payne - African & African-American Studies and History 67. Charlotte Pierce-Baker - Women's Studies 68. Wilma Pebles-Wilkins 69. Arlie Petters - Math 70. Ronen Plesser - Physics 71. Jan Radway - Literature 72. Tom Rankin - Center for Documentary Studies 73. Marcia Rego - University Writing Program 74. Deborah S. Reisinger - Romance Studies 75. Alex Rosenberg - Philosophy 76. Kathy Rudy - Women's Studies 77. Marc Schachter - English 78. Laurie Shannon - English 79. Pete Sigal - History 80. Irene Silverblatt - Cultural Anthropology 81. Fiona Somerset - English 82. Rebecca Stein - Cultural Anthropology 83. Susan Thorne - History 84. Antonio Viego - Literature 85. Teresa Vilaros - Romance Studies 86. Priscilla Wald - English 87. Maurice Wallace - English and African & African-American Studies 88. David Wong - Philosophy
Romance languages and literatures. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Or at least it used to be language and literature, but now it’s probably the same as English: gender, postcolonial theory, and the latest swish theories.
http://www.romancestudies.aas.duke.edu/
They used to do stuff like Petrarch, Dante, Racine, Cervantes, and Lope de Vega. Now they probably do postcolonial literature and revolution.
These 88 are typical of most America campuses and are the ones teaching our children. We have collectively allowed our Institutions of “higher learning” to be hijacked by radical anti-white racialist, socialist and anti-American Marxist. Yet we continue to insist on sending our children there.
Swish theories!! I was afraid of that. !Sigh!
Hardly surprising. What do the Feminist Women look like?
Did you ever see the caveman Geico commercial? Look like them!
Just a guess. The course should probably be named "Lesbian Romance Studies."
No idea which one apologized. Maybe someone else knows.
Do you have any idea how many Romance novels are pubished every year? (Over 2,200 in 2004)
It's a growth market.
When I was in college, I assumed that the seeming stupidity of my professors must have been due to my own inability to grasp their brilliance. In all the time since, I have come to realize more and more that most of them are absolute morons who, if they had to work someplace other than the cloistered environment of higher education, couldn’t make 1/4 of the income they get as professors (except maybe as “journalists” working for rags like the NYT).
I have yet to hear a single logical reason for the continued existence of tenure.
I agree with you! These psuedo intellectuals can do or say whatever they want and can’t be fired. Totally disgusting!
The “Race Subcommittee”. Somehow that sounds to me like their reason for existence is to stir up racial trouble.
Yes, it is amazing that anyone with any critical thinking skill could have been drawn in. Worse, that they have been unwilling / unable to withdraw a severely flawed logical process. They must have drank the Koolaid.
Aren’t they all guilty of hate speech and prejudice? Doesn’t Duke have some type of liberal PC code that forbids such prejudicial speech? Let them be hoisted on their own petard and tried under their own liberal standards.
He probably hasn't. He just understands the politics of reparations.
I’m tired of my current alias, Muffy Lopez. I’ve been looking for a new one, and Thavolia Glymph speaks to me somehow.
IMHO, the real question is when do folks stop paying the tuition. A university’s utility to society is that it teaches how to find a kernal of truth, to be able to intellectually separate out the wheat from the chaff, is the basis by which all of us ultimately make a living being useful to one another. Duke University has very publically shown their primary goal is pulling the wool over others eyes...and trying to force an illusion upon the world.
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You be funny, Xena. Real funny...
Muffy Lopez? Snork!
My hand to God, I am not lying. I’ve used “Muffy Lopez” for more than a decade.
When my sister was away at college, one day she found a fat blond cocker spaniel in her yard. She took the dog to area vets, one of whom recognized her and told my sister her name was Muffy and she belonged to a family named Lopez.
My sister took Muffy back to them, but found Muffy in her front yard a few days later. She concluded that the Lopez family didn’t deserve to own a dog if they weren’t gonna take care of her, so instead of giving Muffy back, she and Muffy went on the lam and ended up crashing at our parents’ house.
My dad and I thought “Muffy Lopez” was the single best name EVER. I’ve used it as a fake name ever since. (Bacon Man can attest - heck, he might even have met the actual Muffy.)
Oh...I trust you on the anecdote.
Signed:
Biff Kerasatovawicz
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