Jim Lindgren over at Volokh argues that the Duke Women’s Lacrosse Team should be honored for not caving, with a round-up of accusations against them. At the very least, it appears that they are owed public apologies by a number of people. Perhaps you can find out whether any of them have been issued.
It appears that Samhita at Feministing is one of those who owes an apology.
I love girls who get it. Humanism rules, feminism drools.
Here’s the roster, Pablo.
I don’t know how many of you got a chance yet to read it, but the WS did an long essay on the case,
“Duke’s Tenured Vigilantes.” I just (finally) finished it this morning—Pigilito sent it to me a couple weeks ago—and I hope to excerpt it at length later today.
I also hope, time permitting, to look at some of the insipid academic tripe that was published, and to turn the tables on the professors who tried to saddle up this case and ride it like their own personal hobbyhorse.
In short, I intend to become one of those “right wing blog hooligans” who puts a spanking to the academy I know so well, and with whose company I parted ways at least in part because of outrages like the ones that happened here.
You know, Jeff–you may wish to read that off against that “conservative psychology” debunking I sent you. Really one of the best things I read all year.
Sounds great. That’s partly why I abandoned the academy, too.
Fascinating.
From what I’ve read, at least 87 faculty members at Duke would probably have thought this to be a reasonable and legitimate comment to wear on a sweatband or indeed to print in an open letter to the sort of publication that publishes open letters.
I suppose some of you will complain that there is no proof that any Nazis were involved, but I don’t see what that has to do with the isues here.
Feminazi Kool Aide is hard to purge.
The racist component of the Duke drama fascinates me: fear of lingering prejudice toward blacks within themselves motivates white people, especially learned women, to lynch young white men, supposedly ensuring their ascent to higher moral ground. The corruption of their reasoning reveals them all to be phantasms of indignation, the posturing of which dissipates when merely examined for truth or even simple honesty. I guess you can take Women’s Studies only for so long before it rots the brain?
And the black community in that county, apparently to whose prejudices Nifong pandered in order to ensure his re-election, participated willingly – perhaps enthusiastically, in that lynching of young white men. They re-elected the man whose prosecution of the case was already toppling before the election. I am sure they are proud of their clear consciences.
I am sure the confusion about which victims rank higher in the moral universe of liberal relativity will settle soon in simple ignorance of fact.
Move along, folks, nothing happening here.
Sorry. I meant to write ‘issues’, but some atavistic lefty instinct stopped me writing SS
Dan. Can you link that here? I’m losing a lot of email as my computer assumes its death rattle.
Sure. Let me go find it.
A Methodology Critique in Defense of Those Wascally Wepublicans
h/t Malkin
Samshita:
Yes/no, well really not at all. Apparently the umcww Women’s Lacrosse Team faction did not read the appropriate Fairy Tales about how both its male and female umcww members are sexist, racist, and even “supremist to the bone” and are also guilty a priori by virtue of their alleged shared pre-existent memory of ‘privilege’ as written by specially-abled channelers such as Little Miss Bullshita.
SFB continued:
“But my Fellow Femifisters, you’d think by this 40 year time of holy consciousness raising the children of the umcww would have at least finally been affected by the sacred critical B.S. mass-effect enough to see the correct ethic delivered by Alice in Wonderland: first you deliver the punishment, then you have the trial.
“Appeals are moot. So Your Queen Samshita will find no need to apologize for Her specially-abled brain: Yea, its Blank Slate nature is both what excuses Her and justifies Her. It is written.”
Those upper middle class white people are all lazy, shiftless and would just as soon kill you as look at you. They cannot be trusted, except for a few Uncle Todds, like maybe the Beastie Boys. Then again, they’re Jooos, so be careful.
“But my Fellow Femifisters,…”
– Pretty much sums it up for people that have a susspiciously large collection of batteries.
(posted at “Feministing”)
I don’t really think so. I think there is a barrier between the sexists, though.
Jeezus! My poor kid…
Jeff, he’s a local. For you, anyway.
The link is to the guy behind Ironshrink.
Great article, Dan.
Only if they’re using “protection.”
Well said.
An indicator of one’s political (nay, spiritual) enlightenment surely must be to balance sides of any reasonable argument—this lightweight Samshita ‘bot evidences none. But such must be the cornerstone of academic rigor, no? If not there, where?
If base anti-black, anti-female discrimination is the chronic core problem, just how easy must it be to keep banging that drum in the face of evidence that convincingly proves that discrimination knows no boundaries as regards race and gender? Different times; different victims and perps. But no, in the face of outright fraud, this Samshita midget, like the other nitwits in Volokh’s link, can’t so much as be led to water.
How balance escapes these Einsteins obviously has to do with one of two things: Ignorance or willful malice. Since leftist academics are not, by their own generous admission, ignorant, it has to be the other.
There you go.
And again.
The evidence is crystal clear: this is willful damage carried out with a zeal that approaches religon.
The good Scott Eric Kaufman challenges me about my anti-academic stance on this particular issue. I still think it’s not only appropriate, it’s entirely expected that opposing components within higher learning speak out against gross reverse discrimination. A single opposing course study would be a start. Are there any?
Oh, and to be fair, these aren’t “academics” making all these penalty-first, conviction-second statements. Just folks who’ve swallowed conventional wisdom, typically that ginned up by academics.
Or am I wrong?
JHoward, a Google search for “men’s studies department” (link blacklisted) returns 4 solid hits. The first is associated with Nothern Ireland’s Ulster and gives us this:
The next find that phrase in this a little bitty section of this enormous list. get your scrolling finger stretched out before you attempt to find the reference. And don’t scroll too fast, or you’ll miss it.
The next two lead to parody articles about such departments being established, demonstratin that the idea of it actually happening is laughable. Then we start getting into links that come up because “men’s studies department” is contained in “women’s studies department”
The first hit on the second page of links leads to this comment at Feministing.
So, it’s up to academia to decide, and this is what they’ve decided. Does that answer your question? Would it help if I wrote 4000 words of misdirection and circular reasoning?
I see the last posters at Samhita’s screed did their deeds in late May.
Nobody since.
It would be interesting if somebody who didn’t mind a flame war asked Samhita to revisit the case and begin comments on the same thread.
Good idea, Richard. I may just provoke that if I’m bored this evening.
Sic’em Dan, I’m home sick from work, bored and onery as hell.
B Moe,
Ornery or ronery?
lol, both actually.
Sam over-heated wrote:
So not only are they racist cowards with regards to black rape victims they are also sexual quislings too stupid to realise their shilling for the oppressor?
Yeesh, and I thought moonbats were angry…
Well, I was going to post on the WS piece, but Cathy Young beat me to it.
Maybe I’ll take a closer look at those individual academic screeds as my contribution to unpacking this mess.
Oh, and I’ll go ask Samhita to revisit her allegations if no one else will.
Oops. Comments appear closed.
Guess I’ll nap, instead.
Jeff,
Oh, and I’ll go ask Samhita to revisit her allegations if no one else will.
why don’t you just ask her via email?
I posted in her most recent thread, and they let it go through, but I’m being studiously ignored. Which is probably the best non-response for her.
I e-mailed Samhita suggesting she revisit the issue.
We shall see.
Thanks, Richard. You rock.
Dan. Thanks for the compliment. But no thanks.
Before Christmas, I got half a dozen strokes, one accompanied by Crown Royal, another by restaurant gift cards, a third by a beautiful seasonal bouquet, plus a couple of nice words from some people I respected back in the day and never knew they felt the same about me.
So, naturally, I started looking over my shoulder, and, naturally, my father was hospitalized.
I just got a nice word on another blog.
I want to sleep tonight, if you don’t mind.
And don’t forget this take!
http://feministing.org/?p=134