"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
as usual, dennis is right on target!
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Excellent piece by Dennis Prager, thanks for posting. He is correct on every point.
The kicker for me is that our dem controlled Congress is finding everything they can in Washington to undermine our president and his administration simply because they hate him.
Here is a miscarriage of justice that most of the people in the country know was wrong and other than one Congressman speaking out it is ignored by the rest.
Our elected lawmakers should be trying to remedy this situation through legislation so it doesn’t happen again.
Liberals only care about dividing us and setting us against each other so they cn control and repress all of us.
Such a sad waste! I pray that these boys will have a good future and that this travesty will come back to rest on the accuser and teach her a lesson. I don’t hold my breath for Al and Jesse to do any repenting because that word doesn’t exist in their vocabulary. To them, this is reparations for slavery, even though few of our ancestors ever owned any slaves.
...”Like Dennis Prager, because of the political correctness and moral blindness among the Left, I too fear for the future of America”...
Down the road, these young men will not be the only tragic victims in all this. With faculty and staff like this, the very core of educational and professional skills required to meet the needs of our nation are at stake. An example is medical education. Duke and Columbia have both been known as excellent schools for medical training. Top notch physicians have trained and worked there. I have a strong interest in medicine, and I am curious as to whether these departments show signs of disintegrating or of being dismantled in the name of “political correctness.” We will know the answer to this in ten years or so after those responsible for the “genesis” of the problem have moved on, leaving a mess for future generations to cope with.
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With regards to Sharpton, does anyone remember that jogger in Central Park who was gang raped? I have some memory that Sharpton was involved, but I don't remember exactly how.
I agree. For the prosecutor to say that he's not bringing charges because she is confused, or mentally ill, or delusional is no excuse. Nifong didn't think she was confused, or mentally ill, or delusional.
Maybe that will be her defense. Maybe she will be found not guily because of it. But the charges should be brought nonetheless.
Excellent article; thanks for posting it! Whether you call it “moral bankruptcy” or “intellectual vacuum”, Duke epitomizes what is wrong with most American universities these days: that they are political indoctrination centers rather than havens of learning and free debate.
One quibble, though: this reads like a transcript of live remarks rather than a proofread written piece. Prager’s comments about the loser-pay judicial system came out garbled, as if he was praising that the winner should pay attorney’s fees. And the listing of what can get a university president fired was likewise confused in its construction. As I said, it seemed more like the flow of spoken comments, which occasionally have these kinds of switches, than a written column. (/grammar police)
A prejudice fostered and carefully nursed by the democrat party in order to create a sense of victimhood, garner a misguided loyalty and obtain votes through their heinous Votes for Food programs.
A ninth lesson might be for college teams, frats etc. everywhere to recognize that they can easily be victimized and not put themselves in potentially morally compromising situations by hiring strippers. Just a thought.
I sent two group emails to the Duke88. The only response I received was from one Paula McClain, who among her other offices is the Co-Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity
and Gender in the Social Sciences at Duke. Below is the 2nd iteration of the two messages that I sent.
The Duke Rape case is a crystallization (pardon the pun) of all the corruption to the rule of law, linear reasoning and the presumption of innocence engendered by political correctness and Cultural Marxism (particularly that personified by campus professorial elites) .
It has added a new phrase to the lexicon: To be Nifonged. The egregious conduct of Nifong will be addressed in other venues. As an Illinois state policeman for 28 years, I can say with near complete confidence that a case like this with these facts would never have passed Felony Review with even the WORST State’s Attorney that I ever dealt with.
The most important lesson to be gleaned from this is that Tawana Brawley Syndrome is no substitute for a proper analysis of the objective facts. I LOVE to see liberals like you hoisted on the petard of Political Correctness, racial identity politics, gender determinint feminism and what I have coined as “Tawana Brawley Syndrome”.
TBS exists when one takes a historical reality such as the marginalization of innocent blacks within a once overtly racist criminal justice system or the past subjugation of women or any number of other offenses and attempts to apply that to a contemporary situation wherein the objective facts don’t apply; ala OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Anita Hill etc.
None of this would have happened if an unscrupulous DA had not chosen to exploit racial identity politics using an apparently mentally ill woman for his political gain, and if the Duke 88, the Durham black community, the radical feminists, and the racial grievance industry merchants had sifted thru the facts objectively and not attempted to stuff them into lurid post modern meta-narratives of privileged white male elites sexually exploiting black women. But than the attendant historical overtones of plantation sexual abuse were probably too much for them to resist. I have increasingly noted that fact and truth present no barrier to the fanatical Cultural Marxist.
My question now is this: Will all those who stampeded to rush to judge and vilify these innocent men now arrange a meeting with them, ala Imus to apologize and create a genuine aura of “healing”? I hope so but I don’t think so, because often being a liberal means never having to say you’re sorry.
Aside from the fact that petty tyrants like you have turned US college campuses into little ivy covered North Koreas, I suspect that you were seeking to appropriate PC bonus points and obtain instant moral authority by championing the cause of the “other” (marginalized black exotic dancer) against racist male chauvinist members of the privileged white elite. A case of cultural Marxist Class warfare that boomeranged. GOD how I love it so!!!!!
Even though I despise the racial identity politics that mindlessly multicultural cultural Marxists like you have fostered amongst my people to our ultimate detriment, I would like to state that I am a black man living in the heart of Chicago’s South Side ghetto, who values the rule of law and truth as best as it can be objectively and humanly determined.
It would be fitting if he gets a pretty penny from you.
I got the response below:
Your continued messages have now moved into the realm of harassment and
I have reported you to your service provider for using abusive and
inappropriate language in your email which was sent through their servers.
Paula D. McClain
Professor of Political Science
Professor of Public Policy
Department of Political Science
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity
and Gender in the Social Sciences
Duke University
Accordingly, I responded as follows
I was unaware that the 2 emails that I sent to you had caused you such distress. I wish to tender my apologies and desire to assure you that you shall receive no further messages from me. But since you are a college professor I was acting upon the putative assumption that universities are about the exchange of ideas, and I thought that my admittedly critically gloating message might prompt a suitable rejoinder. My missive was harsh, yes even severe. But it does contain concepts and ideas that however offensive ought to provoke a suitably barbed retort rather than a threat of server censorship.
Alas, I shall have to reconsider the notion that the campus is about the free exchange of ideas. But this is precisely what I was getting at in my email. If you can ever manage to free yourself from leftist dogmatic doctrine maybe you will realize that.
This is the best evidence of the thought policing that must be extant on all too many college campuses. If she can threaten me with this, someone unconnected with Duke University, just imagine the ax that she wields over any dissenting students!!!! Political Correctness is the intellectual scourge of our time and the worst threat to academic freedom that I have ever seen.