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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Black female entitlement

Jeff Goldstein asks a provocative question:
Question: what would happen were an academic to take the actual findings of new AG Cooper’s follow-up report on the Duke “Rape” case and write a dissertation based on those findings?

Or, to put it more provocatively: would a dissertation that posited “black, female entitlement”—based, as it is, on a culture of victim politics that rewards group-based grievance narratives and puts the burden of proving a negative on the accused in instances where allegations of sexual offenses against women are proffered—as a society-wide problem, one that underscores the pernicious nature of identity politics and so demands redress through a policy of consciously rolling back weighted legislation benefiting “protected classes,” be so readily accepted by media and intellectual “elites”?

And if not, why not?—it being merely the flipside of the kinds of sociological assertions establishment feminists and the faculty 88 championed (and continue to champion, in many cases) before all the facts of the case came to light?

My guess? They’d call such a dissertation “racist” and “misogynistic”—and move to have its writer expelled from the university. Which just goes to show the growing inability of many academics and establishment feminists (and their “progressive” supporters and enablers) to recognize the inconsistency of their views, and to honestly face their own biases and stereotypes.

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