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| Duke parent 2004 | Jun 17 2008, 06:36 AM |
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One of my more boastful friends from the 1960s described his sexual prowess most amusingly: “When I screw ‘em, they stay screwed.” Hoping not to embarrass Bill Anderson, I can say without exaggeration that, regarding the targets of his affection, “When Bill skewers them, they stay skewered.” Anyone skeptical of this claim should read Bill’s latest contribution, "Two Angry Men or One Angry Leftist," to the Lew Rockwell website, (at http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson215.html ) , which abb did link to in yesterday’s media and blog roundup. The unfortunate lump of meat here is Robert Perkinson, whose March 2008 review of Until Proven Innocent in The Nation gets the Anderson treatment in excelsis. Bill proves himself, once again, especially effective at unmasking those pretensions to sophistication so depressingly common among the critics of Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson. Here are just two examples: On Perkinson’s gravamen, Readable, informative, tendentious and ultimately unhinged, the book [i.e., Until Proven Innocent] tries its best to wring wider significance from this Southern tragicomedy. That it fails suggests Americans on opposite ends of the political spectrum are no more ready to hold a civil “conversation about race” – much less rape and race – than they were when Bill Clinton encouraged them to do so in 1997, Bill drops the bunker-buster, What Perkinson fails to point out is that the very reason this case exploded was that journalists and academics across the country decided to make this THE CASE about "white privilege" and nearly every other indictment that leftists want to make about American society these days. And to Perkinson’s purported illumination, Determined to repel each prosecutorial advance, the authors explain away every foible of the defendants. When a campus committee finds that the lacrosse players, who make up less than 1 percent of the student population, account for 25 percent of the school's disorderly conduct violations, the authors step over the data and emphasize "the report's highly positive major findings," that the players, who are overwhelmingly recruited from Northeastern prep schools, generally receive higher grades than other athletes, Bill simply punches the off button, [W]hat is instructive about that "25%" statistic is that only four students at Duke that particular year were charged, one being a lacrosse player. One should keep in mind that "disorderly conduct" is a catch-all charge and not exactly a Crime Against Humanity. But one-in-four is a lot different than the massive crimes that Perkinson is trying to insinuate. There is more, much more, in Bill’s article to bring the reader quickly to the conclusion that if Bill insists you call him “William,” you’ll soon be offering little resistance to stiff winds.  |
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| Sir, may I call you "Bill"? · DUKE LACROSSE - Liestoppers | |
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