Young Men to be Cleared of False Rape Charges

As some of you may know, three young men are to be cleared of the false charges that were leveled against them, maybe. To be clear, these men were victims of racism. Academics rushed to judgment at least partially because the young men are white and their lying accuser black.

John Podhoretz writes in the NY Post,

“Some 88 of them - more than 10 percent of the entire Duke professoriat - engaged in a shocking rush to judgment in the weeks following the party where the accuser falsely alleged she had been raped.

They signed an ad declaring they were “turning up the volume at a moment when some of the most vulnerable among us are being asked to quiet down.”

Their shameful conduct helped create the lynch-mob atmosphere that tempted and seduced DA Nifong to believe he could ride an indictment of the three young men to political victory in the Democratic primary that took place only weeks after he charged them.

It is not too much to say that many of the adults at Duke, who should be stewards for their students, actually wanted the false rape story to be true because it fulfilled their ideological predilections.

Since the academic work of those who organized the ad centers around the notion that the white male power structure subjugates and violates all those who are neither white nor male, the case was actually a dream come true for them.“

Now – it’s important to note that almost 90% of the “professoriat� signed no such advertisement. While this is indicative of the absurdity and bile of a small percentage of academic professors, that is a major problem, but it cannot be proven that they dominate academia.

However, if the signers were overrepresented from the history and sociology departments, then maybe we do have a very big problem indeed. If there is significant density of this point of view in these departments, this surely affects the quality and fairness of their teaching in ways it might not affect the IT or chemistry professor’s.

I would like to see the breakdown.