Cathy Davidson of the Duke 88:
On the other hand, most of my e-mail comes from right-wing “blog hooligans.” These hateful, ranting and sometimes even threatening folks don’t care about Duke or the lacrosse players. Their aim is to make academics and liberals look ridiculous and uncaring.
I suppose posting this makes me a “blog hooligan” in the tiny mind of Ms. Davidson merely because I posted this post dissenting from her narrow little hypocritical rant. Ah well, little worlds, little worlds, little worlds…
My aim is not “to make academics and liberals look ridiculous and uncaring.” Rather, to point out that it is the Duke 88’s very behavior which makes them look ridiculous and uncaring. That would be the behavior which the Duke 88 thought up, which they committed and from which Ms. Davidson is now going to shrill strains to abrogate responsibility. It appears, for Ms. Davidson and possibly the rest of the Duke 88, this is more about their personal social agenda and not about the presumed innocence of the accused regardless their color.
The ad we signed explicitly was not addressed to the police investigation or the rape allegations. The ad focused on racial and gender attitudes all too evident in the weeks after March 13. It decried prejudice and inequality in the society at large. “It isn’t just Duke, it isn’t everybody, and it isn’t just individuals making this disaster,” the ad insisted.
Ms. Davidson and the Duke 88 cannot separate their exploitation of the Duke rape case for their own purposes that easily. If they are not for the presumed innocence of the accused and due process, then the “prejudice and inequality in the society at large” that has them fretting will be the prevailing character of society. Luckily for Ms. Davidson and the rest of the Duke 88, I will presume their innocence as well as their naiveté and lack of depth.
The Duke 88 have embarrassed themselves and they lack the humility to acknowledge that fact. This isn’t the Emperor without clothes. It’s the Emperor who’s underwear is showing.
[Sidebar: Ever since the Duke 88 came to light, I cannot help but envision some goofy team of whatnots along the lines of the Crazy 88's from Kill Bill.]
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2007.01.09
La Shawn Barber has the depth.
2007.01.10
As does KC Johnson.
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January 8th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I have four boys and my older two have already gotten letters from several colleges. We’ve talked about Duke and the way the university threw these kids to the wolves.
Even though these Duke boys are 18 and 19, they are still kids and not experienced with organized racists and feminists groups.
People talk about the actions of normal boys wanting to see naked women dance, but no one is emphasizing the actions of mature and supposedly educated instructors inflaming mob behavior upon their own students.
January 8th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
I wanted to send this letter to the News&Observer but I don’t live in NC, so I doubt it’ll get printed. ANyone who does live in NC can have this letter or I hope will write letters against Cathy Davidson and the Duke88.
Regarding Ms. Cathy N. Davidson’s 01/05/07 article, as much as she may want people to believe her justifications for throwing young inexperienced students to a mob of opportunistic political groups that descended onto Duke to catch a piece of the media pie, the simple fact is that she had a choice to stand for justice or to join the mob, and her choice was wrong!
Students 18 and 19 may be legally “adults”, but they’re still students. Ms. Davidson and 87 other faculty members representing Duke decided to join the mob while Duke’s president showed himself impotent as a leader. Duke’s faculty should know better! As a parent, I would never trust a school who so quickly throws their own students to the whims of a ranting mob.
January 9th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I did not understand the subject line of your post until I realized that the word “Nifong” has become a verb.
Great Work
April 14th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Davidson-where does one begin? I think Scott Peck expressed it best in People of the Lie, where he refers to people who are genuinely evil as not being able to tell the truth. Davidson is a perfect example.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
[...] unlike the Duke 88, the Columbia 70 presume to speak for all those who have remained silent, until now, that is. [...]