Just put in my library reservation for this new book about the most glaring example of irrational "political correctness" that I recall. Yeah, they're rich and white, they must be guilty. Justice moves slowly but thank the gods, at least it moves.
And PC is still around, hence those thinking a certain dogfighting entrepreneur is getting picked on because he's black. Or a friend of mine who forever "excuses" his alcoholic behavior because "he has a disease." "I can't help it, I was drunk." Right. We've become a culture of whining victims.
We are long overdue for a revival of existentialism, the motto of which is, "No excuses!"
Documenting the Duke Rush to Judgment
In their new book, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, Taylor, a columnist for National Journal, and Johnson, a history professor at Brooklyn College and CUNY, document the facts of the case and how they were misconstrued to assume guilt.
The majority of Duke's arts and sciences faculty kept quiet as the activists created the impression that Duke professors en masse condemned the lacrosse players. Several months later, John Burness explained their silence: "I think people just go about their business doing what they do and were not paying attention." But, as some admitted privately to friends, they were also afraid to cross the activists—black and female activists especially—lest they be smeared with charges of racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, or right-wingism.
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