So What if The Duke Accuser Lied?

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So What If The Duke Accuser Lied? Tom Bevan
Wed May 31, 12:35 PM ET



It's hard to believe anyone could write the following line, but John McCann does it anyway in today's Durham Herald-Sun:

"The lacrosse boys brought it on themselves, though -- even if the accuser's lying.

This is despicable. Would McCann, who is black, even think of writing the same thing if the case involved a white accuser and 44 black members of the football team? Of course not.

McCann brushes off the injustice suffered by the Duke lacrosse players with the trite phrase, "that's what can happen when you don't keep your nose clean." This is a cowardly cop-out, not to mention McCann is invoking a standard that is unrealistic as well as unjust. Does he mean anyone who attends a party where there is beer and strippers can be falsely accused of anything under the logic that attending the party in the first place isn't "keeping your nose clean?"

Setting aside the fact that three young men stand accused of a crime that could cost them the better part of their lives behind bars, the forty-four Duke players who have not been charged with committing any crime didn't deserve to have their reputations trashed and their season cancelled, or to be stigmatized and abandoned by the Duke faculty and university administration. To suggest the players brought all this on themselves by the mere act of attending a party is more than grotesquely unfair, it's also a clever way to absolve those in the media and the community whose behavior toward the Duke players has been so shameful throughout this entire episode.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20060531/cm_rcp/so_what_if_the_duke_accuser_li_1


Poor dears are being oppressed by the liberals. I believe the accused are innocent until proven guilty and, yeah, going to a party with strippers doesn't make you a criminal. But Tom, when it comes to having your behavior scrutinized under a magnifying glass in order to minimize or deny crimes and injustices against you, rich white dudes don't fare too badly. If you think your group is being now unfairly stigmatized, stereotyped, and blamed for anything bad that happens to you, all I can say is welcome to everyone else's world. Sucks, doesn't it?

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1. I expect the side of power (and their friends) to say

whatever crap they can to try to keep the case out of court.

Just like the thread in GD.