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Georgetown Columnist: Middle Class People Deserve to be Mugged because "We're Privileged"
Pundit Press ^ | 11/20/14 | Aurelius

Posted on 11/20/2014 12:55:51 PM PST by rightistight

Oliver Friedfeld and his roommate were mugged last weekend. They were forced to the ground and their valuables were taken from them. In response, Friedfeld has blamed himself because he is a member of the middle class.

Writing in Georgetown University's “The Hoya,” Friedfeld penned an article detailing the robbery called “I was Mugged, And I Understand Why.” In it, he attributed his mugging to being a member of the middle class, instead of to the people who mugged him.

...And the fact that he comes “from a solidly middle-class family” means that Friedfeld should be a target of muggings, according to him. He then wonders aloud, “Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege... to condemn these young men as 'thugs?'”

In fact, the middle class is to blame for crimes of this nature, he writes: “If we ever want opportunistic crime to end, we should look at ourselves first... When we play along with a system that fuels this kind of desperation, we can’t be surprised when we’re touched by it. ”

Friedfeld concludes that members of the middle class simply need to get over their fear of being mugged because we have it good. “We should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins. I can hardly blame them. The cards are all in our hands, and we’re not playing them. “

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: education; idiot; insane; nutcase; university
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1 posted on 11/20/2014 12:55:51 PM PST by rightistight
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I think this guy deserved to be mugged because he’s a clueless idiot, not because he’s middle-class.


2 posted on 11/20/2014 12:56:59 PM PST by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: rightistight

I have fantasies where someone tries to mug me.


3 posted on 11/20/2014 12:57:18 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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Must have conked his melon when he hit the ground.


4 posted on 11/20/2014 12:57:35 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Plea$e $upport Free Republic.)
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To: rightistight

I seriously doubt that this guy was really mugged.

He may have staged a fake mugging to manufacture his story


5 posted on 11/20/2014 12:57:53 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: rightistight

So he’s saying either mug me or I’m more privileged then you all and safe.


6 posted on 11/20/2014 12:58:14 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: rightistight

/src on/Those middle class Kulaks got what they deserved from Uncle Joe./src off/


7 posted on 11/20/2014 12:58:55 PM PST by C19fan
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8 posted on 11/20/2014 1:00:09 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are not inclined to commit crimes.)
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With that stupid premise I guess he deserves to be raped and burned at the stake too, right? Why stop there? Maybe he should be food for cannibals.


9 posted on 11/20/2014 1:00:58 PM PST by Bullish (A 5 year old could run the country better than Obama.)
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To: rightistight

I’ll be happy to save him the discomfort and embarrassment of a mugging. All he has to do is send me money. See how easy that was?


10 posted on 11/20/2014 1:01:09 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: rightistight

Do blacks deserve shooting because many are criminals?

That seems to follow the same logic.


11 posted on 11/20/2014 1:01:33 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ('The HERO of the (0bamacare) story is Mitt Romney' - "Stupid" Jonathan Gruber)
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why not raped and tortured too?

the ultimate psychologically dysfunctional racist should take it to the extreme to make his point

if he flogged himself with a cat-o-nine tails until he died, maybe i’d consider his point of view - until then, he can go shove his opinion up his privileged backside

12 posted on 11/20/2014 1:04:17 PM PST by sloop (don't touch my junk)
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Friedfeld concludes that members of the middle class simply need to get over their fear of being mugged because we have it good. “We should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins.

The converse is true Thugs, pugs and mugs should be fearful of the Middle class and should get very comfortable being regularly shot and killed.


13 posted on 11/20/2014 1:04:34 PM PST by Autonomous User (No 18 Holes after a Head Rolls.)
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To: rightistight

Try to mug me and you will be greeted by a 9 mm hollow point round; and you will deserve it.


14 posted on 11/20/2014 1:04:53 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: kevkrom

Indeed. And he is not middle-class, he is UPPER middle class, courtesy of his parents, of course. He is not being robbed of anything he actually earned, you know! More of that stuff from where the first came from. :)


15 posted on 11/20/2014 1:05:44 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: Uncle Miltie

This naive Georgetown student need a class in logic and reasoning. What a fool. He deserves to be mugged again for writing this tripe.


16 posted on 11/20/2014 1:05:44 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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leftists are pro-criminal and pro-thug and pro-dictator


17 posted on 11/20/2014 1:06:32 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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18 posted on 11/20/2014 1:06:43 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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This guy is worthless.

He should just crawl in to a corner and curl up in the fetal position. Then he should keep curling up further and further until his head goes up his ass; then his shoulders; then his torso... ...and he should KEEP curling up smaller and smaller until he completely disappears in to his own “black hole”.


19 posted on 11/20/2014 1:06:43 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: rightistight

The writer was correct.He did deserve to be mugged.Just not for the reason he gave.

The reason he was mugged is he’s an idiot and didn’t defend himself.

He should have shot the S.O.B.’s.


20 posted on 11/20/2014 1:07:33 PM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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