The Duke Lacrosse story is over. The three accused team-members have been acquitted of all charges. Behind the mendacity of a disgruntled stripper, the political opportunism of an attorney general, and media who licked their chops at a story of race, sex, and privilege, we find three ordinary college kids who must carry on with their lives.
This non-story was a perfect example of how a lie can germinate. It was an instance of academia’s perennial fixation with the white oppressor/male sexual aggressor narrative — fed, as it was, into the media sausage grinder. From this one little event-that-never-was, nothing good has been born: Race relations have gained no ground. The academic left still believes in its own great weaving of lies. And the media have moved on to something else…
Justice was served, yes. But a bitter sort of justice.
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