Once in high school, in the late 70’s, when I was a senior, I took advantage of the prevailing cultural disposition to sign myself out of classes one day on the excuse that I was going to a Joyce conference at Marquette, and instead road-tripped to Madison with a number of friends on that beautiful spring day, to munch on deep-dish pizza and to . . . enjoy ourselves. The assistant principal took a look at the names of students who’d signed themselves out, and decided that it was more than coincidental. So, when we returned to school the next day, he brought one of the guys in and claimed that I’d squealed, and got him to confess. Then he called me down to the office and told me that I was suspended for three days, and lectured me on honesty, which made me laugh, until he promised to make it a week. But the idea of having my punishment be three days of not having to go to class when the weather was beautiful in early May made me struck me as absurd.
Now comes Mr. Nifong to ask that he be recused from prosecuting the case (h/t Allahpundit).
At this time, I’d like to reintroduce a poem originally posted on this site by Little Miss Attila:
Rape, rape, rapity rape;
I serve the patriarchy;
Peel the grapes, the grapity grapes,
For rapists out on a lark-ey.
Furthermore, one of the gang of 88 Duke professors who signed a letter published in the campus newspaper demanding the prosecution to the law’s fullest extent of the supposed perps, Karla Holloway, has announced:
“The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship,†Karla Holloway, an English professor and former dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, wrote to Duke’s black faculty caucus.
“Despite our judgments about the prosecutor’s own lack of principled conduct, it is not ours to become the judge or subvert the process,†she wrote…
Holloway was one of 88 faculty members at Duke who endorsed an ad last April in the campus newspaper that included anonymous quotes from students discussing racism and sexual assault on Duke’s campus. She said she receives angry, racist e-mails attacking her for being among the school’s critics.
So, she has resigned her committee assignments? BFD. Do you know how many chaired professors make it a part of their contract that they are exempt from committee work?
Don’ throw me into that briar patch, Professor Holloway. Please, massa . . . have mercy!”
And if Jeff hasn’t looked at this pile of crap with a gimlet eye, yet, he should:
Holloway had not always been so concerned with the significance of “judicial decision[s] on the case.†This summer, she wrote that “justice inevitably has an attendant social construction. And this parallelism means that despite what may be our desire, the seriousness of the matter cannot be finally or fully adjudicated in the courts.†Therefore, since the presumption of innocence “is neither the critical social indicator of the event, nor the final measure of its cultural facts,†judgments about the case “cannot be left to the courtroom.â€Â
Tell it to fuckin’ OJ, lady. Lynch ‘em, why not?
Oh, and let’s not forget the reactions of Pandagon.
I’ve been really sick the last few days. Got back to work today. Glad Jeff’s coming back, and hope his ear’s improved.
UPDATE: Good Lt’s post at Jawa considers in depth the purblind Pandagonism. Joe Malchow points me to this post on Nifong’s recusal request.
I don’t understand the use of corporate power. It’s supposed to be clear! Help!
I hate the fact that she teaches English.
The pain in my ear is (mostly) gone. But I can’t hear out of it, so there’s a bit of a trade off.
That’s not good. Unless you’re listening to total crap, Jeff.
Make mine a (hic) vodka…
If there’s still pain in the ear, it probably still has fluid in it. The last time this happened to me, I went from excruciating pain to instant relief when the tubes finally cleared. Hope if happens for you.
Speaking of Pandagon, I wrote this post for the Jawa Report today specifically highlighting at some of Amanda Marcotte’s hyperfeminist nonsense.
There’s o-so-much-more from the blowhard on this case.
Don’t drink fluids while reading her “opinions” on the incident. May cause spraying or nausea.
atAbout the time Nifong withdrew the rape charges I started trolling around the more well known “feminist” sites
Not.a.word. Down the memory hole.
I wish I could be surprised.
Don’t fret, Pablo. I’m fluent in Pig Leftian, and I don’t have a clue what she means, either.
This I understand. It’s like that part of Army of Darkness where the scary-face book slaps Bruce Campbell around.
[Negronomicon joke redacted.]
It was a much, much worse thing than that.
http://listening.nfshost.com/listening.htm
Unless she’s been falsely accused of rape, Karla Holloway has no right to an opinion on this case. Nifong dropped the rape charges. There was no rape. Karla Holloway doesn’t pay the price of false rape charges.
Chickenfalserapist!
I speak only the truth.
We can assume that the good Dr. possesses no insight into the scary nature of this quote.
Is she reflecting a pervasive activist creed that the Rule of Law is secondary to the rule of “social indicator?” Perhaps she is taking a backward swipe at the Justice System as a whole, channeling Johnny Cochran’s fauz bias “stick it to the man” concept. In either case holloway insists that those , like her, that embrace a social “awareness” of the “cultural facts” should have the opportunity to ignore baseline legal principles for the “truthiness” of activist opinion.
This is why hard liberals should never manage anything or educate anyone. They simply don’t realize their own totalitarian tendencies.
What she is saying, Boz, is that justice does not come from the courtroom thus any judgments about the case must come from outside. It does not matter whether they are found guilty or not guilty by a court, they are because I said so – let the punishment begin!
Anyone have a rope?
Mikey NTH:
What she is proposing is nothing less than a directed judgment of guilt based upon accusation, whiteness, richness and the perceived pervasive rascism at Duke. Legal niceties are less important than the “critical social indicators.”
Her views, in fact, condone a public shunning and societal lynching because of who they are, what they are and who they hired. Evidence be damned; they are to be judged guilty as an example to others who would oppress others female, black or both. An example must be made and the Star Chamber assumes the righteous mantle of moral superiority as they secure the digital rope to the virtual tree branch.
Due process, anyone?
BJTexs,
Actually, I think I’m with her on that one, once I manage to wring some meaning from that twaddle she’s put on the table.
I think it would be a fine idea to do a close examination of the “social indicators” and the “cultural facts”.
The social indicators tell us that it is presumably no problem at all for a black woman to bring white guys up on charges and damage them beyond repair by simply saying the right words. This is a familiar problem. Not so long ago, a black man accused of sexual assault by a white woman would also find himself facing a prosecution in which the facts didn’t matter. I’d like to hear “Professor” Holloway’s perspective on the return of that social ill.
The cultural facts? White = bad, Black = good. Man = Bad, Woman = Good. Man = Criminal, Woman = Victim. Well off = guilty, Poor = innocent. Poor Black Female Prostitute = Truthy, White Male Student Athlete = Dirty Rotten Scoundrel.
I’ll bet I got an A.
Since guilt or innonence are apparently irrelevant, can we spare ourselves the debate and just decapitate Holloway with a rusty hand saw allready? Does this chick happen to be white? If so, we should make sure we have a cattle-prod up her ass and electrodes on her nipples while we’re doing it. After all, we all know how evil those blue-eyed devils are…
Despite it’s very liberal bias, I was impressed to see how critical this evening’s 60 Minutes segment was, of Mike Nifong.
I missed the prior show (I think it may have been in October), when the accused players were interviewed. I was wondering whether that one would be fair… I asked someone who did watch it – and he commented [not directly in regards to that 60 Minutes story, but generally speaking] about how Mike Nifong is very wrong on this. I came across this surprisingly-full and useful Yahoo! page, which has videos, presumably from that prior 60 Minutes episode.