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Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’

Posted on | November 29, 2013 | 40 Comments

The infamous ‘Group of 88’ ad in the Duke Chronicle, April 6, 2006.

Michael W. Chapman at CNS News:

When Crystal Mangum falsely accused several Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, there were 160 major television news stories in the first five days after the players were arrested, but in 2013, when Mangum was convicted of murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison, there were only 3 major television news stories, a difference in coverage of 5,233%.

The bottom line of the Duke lacrosse rape hoax was that two strippers had an argument with some college boys. A dishonest district attorney, who was up for re-election, turned the false accusations into a witch hunt, enthusiastically assisted by Duke faculty and the media.

The district attorney, Mike Nifong, was subsequently disbarred, but the Duke University faculty are still teaching and, of course, the reporters, editors and commentators who got the story completely wrong have never been held accountable. When the false accuser Crystal Mangum was convicted of murder last week, Instapundit’s comment was, “THE GROUP OF 88 WERE UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT.”

Indeed. But the signatories of the “Social Disaster” ad — including such academic humbugs as Wahneema Lubiano and Karla Holloway — continue miseducating students at Duke University, a prestigious private school where the annual tuition is $45,620. The errors of professors Lubiano, Holloway, et al., were not random or accidental, but rather were the product of an Ideology of Error, the cluster of leftist doctrines lumped together under the category of critical theory, otherwise known as Cultural Marxism or political correctness.

Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?

“I’ve been sort of casually listening to CNN
blaring throughout the waiting area and
good f–king god is that channel pure evil.
For awhile, I had to listen to how the
poor dear lacrosse players at Duke are being
persecuted just because they held someone down
and f–ked her against her will — not rape,
of course, because the charges have been
thrown out. Can’t a few white boys
sexually assault a black woman anymore without
people getting all wound up about it? So unfair.”

But this false accusation — the Duke players did not have sex with the strippers, much less hold them down and f–k them against their will — is not enough to discredit Amanda Marcotte in the eyes of those who share her worldview. This is how the Ideology of Error operates: As long as one speaks, writes and behaves in accordance with the ideology, any resulting errors are written off as if they never happened.

Amanda Marcotte can be absurdly wrong and crudely offensive and yet still be endlessly applauded by her fellow leftists. This hate-filled lying fanatic is a valued contributor at Slate and a welcome guest at MSNBC not despite her fanaticism, but because of her fanaticism.

Only in this context can we understand how Crystal Mangum’s false rape accusation in 2006 could get five thousand percent more coverage than her recent murder conviction. Do not expect a Duke faculty committee to call for a “national conversation” about such bias, because the news media are deliberately misinforming the public in exactly the same way that the Duke faculty are miseducating their students.

This is the “social disaster” that the liberal elite are unwilling to address, because it is a “social disaster” they have purposefully caused.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Media Bias

Comments

40 Responses to “Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’”

  1. shelleyshero
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:23 am

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/VgO8ST5Tth #TCOT

  2. rsmccain
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:23 am

    Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt “Group of 88,” etc. @instapundit

  3. Amy Lidster
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:23 am

    I have to look at this at home should be funny

  4. rsmccain
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:25 am

    2006 DUKE LACROSSE RAPE HOAX: “Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?” http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt #tcot

  5. sourthentrad
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:26 am

    RT @rsmccain: 2006 DUKE LACROSSE RAPE HOAX: “Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?” http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt #tcot

  6. Jeanette Victoria
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:29 am

    I want to know how in the last 50 years have we produced to many folks so disconnected from common sense and reality?

  7. instapundit
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:33 am

    RT @rsmccain: Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt “Group of 88,” etc. @instapu…

  8. CFLancop
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:34 am

    RT @rsmccain: Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt “Group of 88,” etc. @instapu…

  9. instapundit
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:36 am

    RT @rsmccain: 2006 DUKE LACROSSE RAPE HOAX: “Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?” http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt #tcot

  10. independantj
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:36 am

    RT @rsmccain: 2006 DUKE LACROSSE RAPE HOAX: “Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?” http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt #tcot

  11. dmbatten
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:37 am

    Why are Wahneema Lubiano and Karla Holloway at #Duke Unvirersity NOT being held accountable?
    http://t.co/IsfuRv5xys
    @DukeU #Durham #NC

  12. tahDeetz
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:38 am

    RT @rsmccain: Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt “Group of 88,” etc. @instapu…

  13. dmbatten
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:39 am

    #Duke University Causes SOCIAL DISASTER and then IGNORES IT.
    http://t.co/IsfuRv5xys @DukeU #Durham #NC #northcarolina

  14. jmdaumeyer
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:43 am

    RT @dmbatten: Why are Wahneema Lubiano and Karla Holloway at #Duke Unvirersity NOT being held accountable?
    http://t.co/IsfuRv5xys
    @DukeU…

  15. ODhonnabhain
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:44 am

    RT @rsmccain: 2006 DUKE LACROSSE RAPE HOAX: “Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?” http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt #tcot

  16. dbr1
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:54 am

    One word: College.

  17. Art Deco
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:58 am

    The bulk of what is uttered in public fora is now complete humbug.

    What gets you is that partisan Democrats from the top of the heap to the bottom are perfectly congenial with this and appear in fora such as this to defend criminal behavior and honor its perpetrators.

    Around about 1979, there were members of the Duke faculty who were signing petitions and what not to protest Terry Sanford’s tentative acceptance of some archival material from Richard Nixon. Now we have colleges paying Bilge Clinton six figures sums to speak and conferring honorary degrees on him. And now Barack Obama has conferred upon this sociopath the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” and partisan Democrats tell us all to ‘move on’ or what not. Partisan Democrats offer superciliousness and apologias for Lois Lerner who took the Fifth Amendment.

    It is almost as if partisan Democrats are a criminal element who should be kept away from decent people.

    George McGovern is dead, Paul Simon is dead, Eugene McCarthy is dead, Jimmy Carter is 89 and Nat Hentoff is just a shade younger. So sad. It did not used to be this way.

  18. Art Deco
    November 29th, 2013 @ 12:07 pm

    At one time virtue was understood through convention and tradition and consisted of things which had an element of challenge to them: obeying the law, honoring your marriage vows, earning a living, paying your debts, and keeping your children under some kind of control and seeing to it they acquired a competence of some kind.

    For decades, we have had mass entertainment, popular culture, and academic discourses which sought to expose ordinary people and locate virtue in unexpected places. Not that it is that way in mundane life, but it allows a certain clerisy to seize control of the process of defining and elucidating virtue (which turns out to be membership in one of their client groups or adopting the guises and poses of the clerisy).

    To the clerisy, my grandfather’s occasional remarks about ‘the nigrahs’ matter and what he did with his life and how he lived it do not. The clerisy are also forever constructing artificial manners which they attempt to bully the rest of us into adhering to (mostly concerning their insistence that there mascot groups must be treated with the utmost delicacy and deference in public speech).

  19. DJM1968
    November 29th, 2013 @ 12:17 pm

    Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/bBS3FrxPnw

  20. good2knoe
    November 29th, 2013 @ 12:23 pm

    RT @rsmccain: 2006 DUKE LACROSSE RAPE HOAX: “Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?” http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt #tcot

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  22. Amy Lidster
    November 29th, 2013 @ 12:27 pm

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  23. nofixedabode
    November 29th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt “Group of 88,” etc. @instapu…

  24. nofixedabode
    November 29th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm

    RT @rsmccain: 2006 DUKE LACROSSE RAPE HOAX: “Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?” http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt #tcot

  25. darthlevin
    November 29th, 2013 @ 1:35 pm

    It’s been said by better than me: For leftists, failure is a resume enhancer.

  26. Quartermaster
    November 29th, 2013 @ 1:38 pm

    None of them ever issued a peep on the matter. Carter has remarked that Mexican elections are more secure then ours, and it got him vilified for his trouble. He’s been quiet as a church mouse otherwise.

  27. andycanuck
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:09 pm

    What does a social disaster sound like?
    “Pull my finger”???

  28. Mcschweety
    November 29th, 2013 @ 3:08 pm

    Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/wWMq1PGyzJ

  29. MichaelBarger1
    November 29th, 2013 @ 3:59 pm

    RT @rsmccain: 2006 DUKE LACROSSE RAPE HOAX: “Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?” http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt #tcot

  30. GulfDogs
    November 29th, 2013 @ 6:03 pm

    ?Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’?#2A #CCOT #TCOT?http://t.co/7jjHMbPOLa

  31. tlk244182
    November 29th, 2013 @ 6:57 pm

    I would have said ‘television.’ Or maybe ‘rock n roll.’ I was disconnected from common sense and reality by the time I got kicked out of high school.

  32. Bob Belvedere
    November 29th, 2013 @ 7:27 pm

    Damn well put.

  33. ChrisDavis2011
    November 29th, 2013 @ 7:43 pm

    As opposed to just complaining about the Duke case, I data mined the email addresses of the Duke 88 and sent them an email encouraging them to place a full page ad condemning Frank Lombard, the Duke University administrator who is a homosexual child rapist pimp that sold his two adopted African American sons to other homosexual pedophiles for anal sex.

    I received only one response from from the entire list of 88. Jack Bookman , and his response to my full page ad encouragement was…..

    “why don’t you do that”

    So you see, if an African American woman is fantasy raped, it is a Social Disaster, but if African American boys under the age of 6 are anally raped by homosexual pedophiles, it is no big deal to the Duke 88.

    Here is the arrest for Duke Administrator Frank Lombard:

    http://www.mooregop.org/090626_lombard_arrest.pdf

  34. ConserAnimal
    November 29th, 2013 @ 10:15 pm

    RT @rsmccain: 2006 DUKE LACROSSE RAPE HOAX: “Who can forget how Amanda Marcotte covered herself in shame?” http://t.co/9kSfamgfwt #tcot

  35. robcrawford2
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:46 pm

    We stopped trying to correct them, and started indulging them. We create documentaries and dramatic films playing out their paranoid fantasies. We stopping doing things as simple as saying, “No, you’re wrong”.

    And we don’t humiliate the people who continue to treat them with respect.

  36. robcrawford2
    November 29th, 2013 @ 11:47 pm

    Not just failure, but criminality. The surest way to get the Party’s support is to let the Party have a handle on you.

  37. TX_1
    November 30th, 2013 @ 2:08 pm

    RT @therightplanet1 @rsmccain Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/OG83BGVScS

  38. TX_1
    November 30th, 2013 @ 2:09 pm

    @slate @CNN @rsmccain Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’ http://t.co/OG83BGVScS MSM LIES #tcot #TX #OK

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