A GREAT PIECE ABOUT DUKE

The best piece about the Duke rape case has been published in the Houston Chronicle.

Of all the questions still unanswered in this shameful saga, among the most perplexing is: How did so many smart people allow things to reach the level of hysteria we've witnessed in the past several months?

The answer is implicit in the question. Notwithstanding the rich brain trust created by the three points of North Carolina's "Triangle" — Duke in Durham, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University in Raleigh — university communities are fertile breeding grounds for the totalitarian mind-set known as political correctness.

Between a perverse form of liberation feminism that sanctifies strippers, prostitutes and porn stars — and a dogma of victimology that places blame for all things at the feet of the white patriarchy — the players were instantaneously presumed guilty by virtue of their being white males and privileged jocks.

By the same reasoning, the dancer was assured victimhood by her status as a black single mother/student, reduced by centuries of white-male oppression to stripping for food and tuition.

A great essay that cuts through the bullshit.