Official end of the Duke hoax?
David B. writes:
Today at 2:30 ET, there will be a press conference regarding the Duke Hoax. The North Carolina C officials are going to announce dismissal of the charges.
LA replies:
And what will the Duke faculty say, which like a lynch mob pushed this madness? They will say what the editors of The Nation said after the Tawana Brawley hoax was exposed in 1988: that even though there was no truth to the charge that prosecutor Steven Pagones and several other white men had kidnapped 16-year-old Tawana, held her and raped her for several days, then left her in a garbage bag covered in feces with racist slogans scrawled on her body, it didn’t matter, because the charge against the men captured the essential truth of whites’ treatment of blacks in America.
And, by the way, the person who spread Brawley’s false story, who paralyzed New York State politics for a year with this vile hoax, and who has never apologized for ruining Steve Pagones’s life but instead has kept repeating the charges against him even after a court found that he had slandered Pagones and levied a money fine on him, is Al Sharpton, who now has his own radio show and renders the official judgment of the black community on racial offenders such as Don Imus.
EG has a theory he wants to test about blacks’ thought processes and motivations as shown by their possible reactions to the dropping of the charges:
It will be interesting to see the reaction of blacks, and especially the Jacksons and Sharptons, to today’s decision in the Duke case, to drop the charges.
If they start whining and protesting, one wonders if browbeaten whites (for whom the players’ innocence was long obvious) will take offense.
More interesting to me would be if the blacks stay relatively quiet about it—if they do not start whining and protesting. Given their excessive racial sensitivity and their “outrage” at the smallest of slights, a relative lack of reaction would mean that they have long accepted—privately—that these players were innocent. Yet no one in the black community, all those who were (along with white leftists) ready to lynch these young men, came out and stated the obvious.
In other words, if the blacks privately thought the three were innocent (and thus the black community is not now “full of rage” about the dropped charges), then they would have been perfectly satisfied to sit back and let these young men go to jail for a crime they didn’t commit.
Black passivity with respect to this decision—if it occurs—would be proof that blacks long understood the case was a fraud and, therefore, the desire among blacks for “justice” in this case (that is, railroading the young men) was purely a product of racial animus.
Spencer Warren writes:
This case is a classic example of cultural Marxism, in which you substitute ____ for the bourgeoisie and ____ for the proletariat. And it was also a classic show trial for the purpose of legitimizing the Marxist ruling ideology. As in the typical communist show trial, legal procedure and truth did not exist, their form was only used for the instrumental purpose of vindicating the ideology.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 11, 2007 12:44 PM | Send