The Metapolitics of Resentment

I've never addressed the growing (and growing, and growing) pile of evidence that those Duke lacross guys were innocent of the rape charges brought against them. When the story first broke I didn't write about it, because it was a little tangential to my main interests and because it's not the sort of thing I was inclined to jump to conclusions about in quasi-print. My inclination in a case like that is to believe the woman, but an investigation was clearly underway. At any rate, events unfolded and I continued to not write about it. The system, it seems to me, pretty much worked. Accusations of the sort that were leveled should be taken seriously and investigated, and innocent people should go free when the evidence doesn't support charging them with crimes.

For months, however, every time I blog on anything even vaguely race-related, I'm struck by the sheer volume of people who want to respond "what about the Duke lacrosse case?" Well, I think, what about it? Then I read something like this from Victor Davis Hanson who really doesn't cover these issues either, and it hits me. There's this huge block of people out there, primarily reasonably prosperous middle-aged middle class white men, who in all genuineness seem to believe that what went down there is emblematic of broad-based social problem. They see the Imus controversy through the same lens -- the lens that makes them think the issue here is Al Sharpton or hip-hop. It's a mentality that believes -- deeply and sincerely -- that the middle-aged white dude just can't get a fair shake in this country. Not in this day and age. What with the Sharptons and the feminist bloggers and all. Next thing you know, there'll probably be dudes marrying dudes, and women and black folk running for president!

And, well, I just don't know what to say to a mentality like that. I certainly think that lots and lots of people in this country -- including, naturally, lots of middle-aged people and lots of white people and lots of male people -- do, in fact, have a hard time getting a fair shake in the contemporary United States. But the idea that middle-aged white men as a class are being persecuted, well, well, not so much.

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Here in Ames, Iowa a couple years ago a young (white) woman claimed she was raped by 6 black men or something like that. It turned out to be completely false (Unlike the duke thing, there were never any named suspects)

A couple years ago A black police officer claimed to have been beaten up by skinheads. It turns out his wounds were self-inflicted.

These are just two incidents of pseudo-violence in a small city of 50,000 people. In fact, they were the only violent incidents in this town involving residents*

So it seems like fake racial crime is alleged a lot, by both blacks and whites. It's all very bizarre and I think people do it because it draws even more attention to themselves.

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But what you said is true, there are a lot of white men who believe that life isn't fair for them. And life may not be fair for that particular person, but not because of their race and gender.

Posted by: Chad Okere on April 16, 2007 11:14 AM

listen to Limbaugh and Hannity 500 hours a year, read Coulter's books, go to a fundamental church, you'll be convinced that the world is out to get you, too.

Posted by: cleek on April 16, 2007 11:14 AM

(Oh I was going to add, one person got stabbed here, but he and the guys who stabbed him were from out of town)

Posted by: Chad Okere on April 16, 2007 11:14 AM

The problem is that white men aren't getting the benefits they used to get. Used to be that if a black woman accused wealthy white men of rape, she'd be laughed out of the police station or charged with a crime herself. The fact that we take her accusations as seriously as we'd take those of a white woman accusing a black man upsets a lot of people.

Posted by: SP on April 16, 2007 11:17 AM

There is that element at work, but there's another that I like to call INARB-- I'm Not A Racist, But... this is sort of a variation of a concern troll. It's someone who will loudly proclaim that they aren't a racist (a probably aren't), and that they are dedicated to eliminating racism in our society-- but in absolutely any public matter involving race, denies that racism is at play. If you think about it, the political media is littered with them. The move is always to spend five seconds gesturing to racial equality and racial justice, and the remainder of the segment explaining why, in fact, racism didn't occur; or why the real problem is the black leadership establishment; or why politically correct taboos are tearing our country apart; or why the real problem is affirmative action and the "culture of poverty"; or why Al Sharpton is an asshole. The actual act of racism (real or alleged) is always marginalized, while qualifications and excuses for the act are emphasized.

Posted by: Freddie on April 16, 2007 11:18 AM

*and probably aren't

Posted by: Freddie on April 16, 2007 11:18 AM

Well put. This is also why the same folks constantly accuse African Americans of racism and feminists of sexism. Anyone who attempts to identify and combat the privilege of the these insecure white men is suddenly the equivalent of a a slave owner or a nazi. It's pretty depressing, I think.

Posted by: Sam L. on April 16, 2007 11:18 AM

It's a mentality that believes -- deeply and sincerely -- that the middle-aged white dude just can't get a fair shake in this country.

This pretty much explains Glenn Beck.

Posted by: M. Duss on April 16, 2007 11:19 AM

I happen to be a retired college professor (after 25 years of full time teaching) who has never voted Republican in a presidential election.
I am astonished by anyone who says that in the Duke case that the system pretty much worked.
I am also very troubled by the character of the public lynching of Don Imus--though, hell, it is time for him to re-invent himself so I am not particularly troubled that he was terminated.
The issue is not that the folks like me perceive that we as a class are being persecuted. Rather we see the stupidity and hypocrisy that continues to plague liberal democrats.
I wake up every morning wondering: "why has my country been devastated by the plague of the George Bush administration-- which I consider the most evil presidency in US history?" And the answer I keep coming to is the way in which the Clinton administration and a kind of liberal democrat--and its character and hypocrisy--has significantly contributed to what has happened to us.
Glad you raised the issue Matt!!! It is an important one!

Posted by: PaulD on April 16, 2007 11:19 AM

To sum up:

"We're losing everything man!"

- Chris Rock, impersonating VDH-like guys who are sad to lose their monopoly on power and respect in this country.

Posted by: Reality Man on April 16, 2007 11:22 AM

C'mon Matt! Don't you realize that most of those middle aged white guys are Christian and that Christmas is under assault? That should clear it up for you.

Posted by: DMonteith on April 16, 2007 11:22 AM

And the answer I keep coming to is the way in which the Clinton administration and a kind of liberal democrat--and its character and hypocrisy--has significantly contributed to what has happened to us.

This strikes me as a genuinely bizarre reading of events. Clinton moved the party as a whole to the right, particularly on economic matters, but also on matters related to social problems. Race, gender, and sex-partner relations just are better than they were in the 80s.

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 16, 2007 11:24 AM

who in all genuineness seem to believe that what went down there is emblematic of broad-based social problem

What an utter straw man.

Seriously - the evidence for this is...? Nothing, as far as I can tell. It exists solely in Matthew's mind.

Posted by: Al on April 16, 2007 11:29 AM

When I worked as a pipefitter guys would bitch about the "women coming in and taking our jobs".

And yet, the unemployment rate is what, 4-5%? There's plenty of work to go around.

Posted by: trainwreck on April 16, 2007 11:31 AM

I find it pretty amazing how this group of people feel that in many crimes, the inability to catch them all means you need to ratchet up the punishments and lower the bar for guilt (terrorism, voter fraud, scapegoat of the day). But when it comes to the uncertainty regarding rape (and just because there isn’t enough evidence to press charges does not mean the prosecutor’s don’t believe a crime took place) conservative white men feel no charges should be pressed at all.

Posted by: Tony V on April 16, 2007 11:32 AM

Sometimes, the racial component in fake crime reports is not for the purpose of attention, however. In the Charles Stuart case in Boston and the case of that woman who claimed to have been carjacked (I forget her name,) I believe these people claimed a black perpetrator because they thought these sorts of crimes happen every day, and never get solved. But it was precisely because they don't happen every day, and they are the sorts of crimes that white people really fear from blacks, that they were given national media attention and extended manhunts for the non-existent perps.


Posted by: Misplaced Patriot on April 16, 2007 11:34 AM

Genuinely bizarre reading of events? Perhaps.

I would appreciate another explanation of the Bush plague.

I think that a major problem is that "liberals" speak only to other "like-minded" souls and don't engage others who view things quite differently than they do (bizarre reading of events).

When I first heard the Duke accusatiions, I was 98% certain that they were a crock. And those like Dan Abrams who looked at the stuff way back saythat it was a crock. That it took over a year for this issue to get resolved is a great travesty.

Posted by: PaulD on April 16, 2007 11:35 AM

Matt nails it.

Of course, do not forget that this large group of "reasonably prosperous middle-aged middle class white men" voted for Bush over Kerry by an astounding 25% margin. Forget about fundamentalist evangelicals giving the 2004 elections to Bush. It was these average middle class white guys who handed this country back to Bush for another 4 years.

Now the 2000 election was one thing. Back in 2000 people could honestly say they expected something moderate and bipartisan out of Bush and have some basis for saying it. But 2004? For God's sake. This makes average middle-aged white guys the stupidest class in America bar none. And PaulD...if you think Clinton had anything to do with the 2004 elections you are right there with them.

Posted by: Kent on April 16, 2007 11:37 AM

Man paulD,

You are so right. The most important political event of the last 25 years during which you were teaching was Clinton's blow job. could you be a little vaguer with your accusations of democratic malfeasance leading to the actual, specific, choices made by the current republican admnistration? Could you maybe tell us in detail how Clinton's blow job made it necessary for Colin Powell to lie to the UN? Or how clinton's blow job made it necessary to invade Iraq? Or how clinton's blow job made it necessary for Bush to deconstruct FEMA and install Michael Chertoff as head of DHS? Or how Clinton's blow job made it necessary for pretty much any of the fairly substantial destructive decisions of the bush administraton over the last six years?

I won't ask what you were teaching all those years but man, I'd like some of what you've been smoking.

aimai

Posted by: aimai on April 16, 2007 11:37 AM

Notice that PaulD said "lynching." He certainly did not mean to equate the extralegal unpunished killing of a black man with a white radio host getting fired. But his word choice, probably an unconscious one, symbolizes the general sentiment that Matt was referring to. Was Imus' firing unjustified? I think not, but the question is certainly fair. Was Imus' firing in any way similar to mob murder of a black man for some imagined offense against a white woman? No. I'm not trying to parade around and be offended, but I think the presumed appropriateness of word choice supports Matt's point.

Posted by: Dan-o on April 16, 2007 11:38 AM

public lynching of Don Imus

He embarrassed his employer by saying something stupid and offensive, and his employer let him go. It's hard to take you seriously when you compare getting fired when you screw up on the job to lynching.

Obviously, though, what you say is true about this case; to the extent that Nifong may have broken some of the professional rules he ought to have followed, there was much about this case that wasn't best described as the system working well. I assume Matt just means in the meta-sense: a) allegation taken seriously and vigorously investigated, and b) charges dropped when allegation couldn't be proven and appeared to be false.

To make Nifong a poster child for prosecutors gone wild is a joke, though--compared to the prosecutors in, say, Tulia or Ellensberg, he's a model of prosecutorial efforts. And that's the point; in those cases it was the powerless who were victims of injustice at the hands of rogue police and prosecutors AND they went to jail. Anyone who bangs on about this case endlessly while ingnoring the real systemic problems in our justice system obviously has an agenda, and it's a pretty noxious one.

Posted by: djw on April 16, 2007 11:39 AM

I am also very troubled by the character of the public lynching of Don Imus

Yeah, well I'm troubled by people who would refer to the episode as a "public lynching".

Imus was fired, not hanged, fired. He is not enititled to a radio or cable tv show. Nobody is (I particularly note that I have neither).

He insulted a wide swath of the American public. He lost advertisers. He cost his employers money. He got fired.

Whether you view the episode through a moral lens (he deserved what he got for being an asshole) or through a business one (he deserved what he got for becoming a commercial liability to his employers) there is nothing remotely wrong with the outcome.

Now, I'm not saying that he had to be fired. He probably could have avoided that outcome had he immediately issued a genuinely contrite apology, instead of merely claiming that he was "insensitive". But to suggest that he was "lynched"? Ha!

Posted by: space on April 16, 2007 11:40 AM

This is a great post, and quite accurate as far as it goes. As someone who grew up in a working class family in Kansas, I would only add one thing: while unemployment is low, the stagnant minimum wage (along with tax cuts for the rich, etc.) have left a lot of poor white men unable to really support their families. This helplessness stokes resentment of immigrants, blacks, and women. They're wrong, of course: it is still tougher to be a member of any of those groups than to be a white male. Still, a less economically stratified country would be a country with less racial resentment.

Posted by: Justin Nisly on April 16, 2007 11:41 AM

When I first heard the Duke accusatiions, I was 98% certain that they were a crock.

Me too. Most people with whom I've even briefly discussed the matter seemed to feel the same way. I don't see how that relates to Clinton, or why the "reserve judgment" position that most people I know took was the wrong one.

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 16, 2007 11:41 AM

Woe is me! I was born a white man in America in the 20th Century. How will I ever find a job (assuming I lose the one I have) ... When will people ever take a white man seriously in this country? Will we ever have representation? Will there ever be a TeeVee show with white people on it? Woe is me ... Someone remove my shackles so I can find my bootstraps and pull on them...

/snark

Posted by: DanF on April 16, 2007 11:42 AM

Matt: brilliant post. As a 42 year-old white male with a fairly standard self-segregated set of friends and acquaintences, I'm surrounded by this ALL THE TIME.
Guys in my peer group have somehow convinced themselves (or more likely, ALLOWED themselves to BE convinced) that they are PUT UPON in our society.
Imus makes a racist, sexist comment, and they start blathering on about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. As if bloviating self-aggrandizers haven't been found across all races in all times.
Get 'em off Al & Jesse, and it's the Duke false accusation case. Or whatever happens to be the conventional-wisdom outrage of the moment - a few years back, it was the McDonalds lawsuit about the Hot Coffee (never mind that the facts of that case showed that McDonalds had settled/been sued for the same problem multiple times, and had also ignored consumer groups' requests to adjust the standardized temperature settings on their coffemakers) .

As a white male in this society, I recognize that ON BALANCE I was given a huge head-start in life vis-a-vis non-white and/or female folks. It doesn't mean that any achivements I've managed to put together are meaningless. It just means that I scored a touchdown, where as a female or minority, I might only have gotten close enough for a field goal. I still gained yardage. My peers apparently feel like acknowledging the head start negates their whole life story, when quite simply it doesn't.

Posted by: steveconga on April 16, 2007 11:43 AM

Yeah, well I'm troubled by people who would refer to the episode as a "public lynching".

I'm troubled by people who don't understand the concept of a metaphor.

Posted by: Al on April 16, 2007 11:49 AM

I'm troubled by people who don't understand the concept of a metaphor

I am troubled by your disingenuous claim to be troubled.

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 16, 2007 11:51 AM

Misplaced Patriot:
Gotta respond to your (very faulty) memory of the Charles Stuart case. The woman involved DID NOT CLAIM a black man car-jacked them. She, along with her unborn child, were dead and in no position to accuse anyone of anything. It was her scumbag murderer of a Husband that claimed this. I lived in Boston at the time, and not 10 days after the case occured (while the local and national media, as well as the BPD, were all still in full "get the bad bad darkie" mode) ran into some guys from "the hood" at a party, and the case was topic number one on everyone's lips. These kids told all us sheltered white folks that the 'word on the street' was that it was the husband. As we all now know, they were spot-on 100 percent right.
Not trying to flame, just setting the record straight.

Posted by: steveconga on April 16, 2007 11:53 AM

Hey! I'm from Ames, too!

The Imus case isn't about free speech. Imus can say whatever he likes whenever he likes. However, the network that hired him is under no obligation to him or anyone else to keep him if his speech on the air is in violation of their standards. The issue is one of standards: inn order to be responisible, respectable annd mainnstream what sort of standards should a netwwork maintain? That's the issue.

To bad the network didn't fire him years ago when he went after Gwen Ifell. But I am glad that they suddenly noticed that their standards had slipped. I hope the other media outlets will beomce embarrassed by their haters annd freaks, too.

Middle aged white guys aren't persecuted for being middle aged white guys but they are being screwed. The decline of the middle class and the lower middle class has hit them hard. Rightwing opinion leaders prefer that they channel their rage away from the rightwing leadership that is screwing them. So lots of outrage over the laCross inncident (which featured rich white guys) is a slick way to distract attention from crappy jobmarkert, expensive health insurance, tax cuts for the rich while local taxes climb to make up the slack etc. It's a classic ploy: play the middle against the poor inn orderto screw them both.

Posted by: wonkie on April 16, 2007 11:55 AM

This is sort of a depressing post for me to read. Because it's about my dad. I don't know how to respond to this mentality, either, and I try and I try and I try.

Posted by: Scott E. on April 16, 2007 11:55 AM

Great thoughtful posts. I guess where I come down is that "ressentiment" isn't just for losers any more. Its for everyone. What bugs me is that the same right wing populists who want to say that America is a classless meritocracy where if poor people are screwed its their own fault are the very first people to cry when something bad happens to their own. If the duke boys suffered any harm during their year in hell, which I'm sure they did, what of it? In our wonderful meritocracy no doubt they can overcome that just like every individual can overcome whatever class or race or health or religious issues have hampered them. Not only is "tomorrow promised to no man" but "the good life in the US middle class" is promised to no duke frat boy." Let them sink or swim like the rest of us.

Well, which is it? Are we a paradise in which any little boy or girl who is gifted and determined enough can rise to the top or are we a hell hole of racist determinism in which people can be punished, or fall from the middle class, for structural reasons and forces outside their control?

Maybe that is too much to unpack here but I really get the sense that the newly disenfranchised white guys are just waking up to the fact that the sink or swim, ownership society that bush has been pushing on them (or jonah goldberg with his bleat that "our culture" demands that we fail to give health insurance to all) actually means that they are going to sink just like all the people they've been ignoring all along.

A perfect judicial system doesn't mean that no one will ever get wrongfully accused or even wrongfully tried. It ought to mean that they don't get wrongfully convicted. Which is exactly what happened in this case.

Posted by: aimai on April 16, 2007 11:56 AM

Al: "I'm troubled by people who don't understand the concept of a metaphor."

Exactly so! That's why, when Jesse Jackson referred to New York as "Hymietown," it was appropriate to refer to the criticism he received as "a Holocaust."

Posted by: ArgleBargle on April 16, 2007 11:58 AM

It should be noted that, although they are all white men, neither Imus nor the Duke lacrosse players are middle-aged.

Posted by: Aaron S. Veenstra on April 16, 2007 11:59 AM

Steveconga has it exactly right on the stuart case. Stuart blamed the entire black community in mission hill. Feminists in boston instantly smelled a rat because it was so much more likely that he'd done it himself. The black community said the same thing but it took quite a while and a lot of people in the black communit were hurt by the police before the police realized they'd been had. Carole Stuart's parents endowed a scholarship for the black community as a gesture of healing afterwards.

Another stunning false claim no one has mentioned yet? Susan Smith who accused some fictitious black guy of carjacking her children when it was she herself who drowned them. Lets never forget her republican background and how easily the public and th epolice lapped up her story--for a while.

Posted by: aimai on April 16, 2007 11:59 AM

The System Did Not Work For The Prosperous Middle-Aged White Man

First the System did not work for the Black Man
and I did not speak out because I was not a Black Man
(and he was probably guilty, anyway)

Then the System did not work for the Brown Woman
and I did not speak out because I was not a Brown Woman
(and this is a meritocracy, so she should have worked harder)

Then the System did not work for the Muslim
and I did not speak out because I was not a Muslim
(and I don't trust them, anyway)

Then the System did not work for me, a Prosperous Middle-Aged White Man
and I cried like a baby
and other Prosperous Middle-Aged White Man came to my aid
and spread the tale of how life had been
UNFAIR to a Prosperous Middle-Aged White Man
far and wide, across newspapers and cable shows.

Thank God, there was someone left at the levers of power.

--Pastor Martin Niemöller (or Scooter Libby, I forget.)

Posted by: space on April 16, 2007 12:00 PM

Why is that Al is not regarded as a troll? Do his two snappy comments on this thread add anything?

He seems different than the old Al. Sometimes I think that there have been several Als, with new ones slotted in whenever the incumbent Al gets a real job. But that's just specylation. Maybe it's been the same Al all along, and he's just losing his spirit.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 12:00 PM

Chad: These are just two incidents of pseudo-violence in a small city of 50,000 people. In fact, they were the only violent incidents in this town involving residents

You're saying that Ames, Iowa, a town of 50,000 people, went through the entire year of 2005 with only two violent incidents - an alleged rape and an alleged assault on a police officer. (In fact, given that you say these respectively didn't happen and were self-inflicted, you are asking me to believe that a town of 50,000 people went for twelve months without any violent incidents whatever.) Sorry, but you're full of fertilizer.

Posted by: ajay on April 16, 2007 12:01 PM

Oh come off it, the lot of you. Some white males are downright plutocrats, some get a fair shake, some don't, some face incredibly difficult challenges, but none of that is the point. On the left side of the blogosphere, white males are often painted with one brush. We white males are all privileged, all racist, all insensitive, all frat-boys (who, incidentally, are also uniformly characterized as scum). Perhaps it's deserved, but the discussion of white males as a group has a unique surfeit of vitriol and a unique paucity of nuance, and that--I think--is the seed from which the resentment you're discussing has grown.

Posted by: jbl on April 16, 2007 12:02 PM

3 Quick Thoughts:
1) PaulD - I'll be honest - I agree that Liberals need to engage those who see things differently. At the same time, Liberals should not concede reality. White, middle-class men are mostly advantaged in society, not disadvantaged. It's hard to focus on the supposed challenges they face when those challenges don't exist. Look at this case. The accuser has literally nothing that could be taken from her. I have never known her name. She hasn't been paid by anyone that I know of. She has no power - aside from the power that everyone has to make accusations. What possible solution is there here? Remove her ability to make accusations or report crimes? What? And the white guys had the charges dropped. What more should be done?

I do not deny a certain "set-upon" feeling among white men. And it's worth noting - we do get ragged on a lot by popular culture. But, so does everyone. Do we really want to eliminate all white guy jokes? What would white male comics do?

As for Imus - make fun of college girls for their looks, particularly black girls for looking black, expect not to get paid a lot to do it on the morning radio. Shocker! I'm not even sure why this would be a concern. No, at work a person should not make racist jokes about members of another race, particularly young women. What's astounding to me is that manners and chivalry alone justify firing Imus.

And, notably - Sharpton and Jesse are not exactly elected leaders of head officials.

2) I find it strange that anyone ASSUMED these guys were guilty. I also find it strange that anyone ASSUMED these guys were innocent. For those of you who did, does it bother you that you just made that assumption on limited knowledge? Is that a problem too? Honestly, I don't think it deserved the press it got. I'm glad thecharges are being dropped if there is insufficient evidence to support charges. The posecutor should probably be defeated in his next election. But why would you assume that this story had to be a lie, from the very start? I find that wierd - is the assumption that black women accusing white men are necessarily liars? What?

Posted by: MDtoMN on April 16, 2007 12:03 PM

I think that Edwards is right that there is a need for a healthy populism right now (as opposed to the unhealthy populism of the righhtwing). The haters (like Beck)are tapping into widespread resentment over diminished expectations. Ihe resentment is legitimate: Americans are being screwed. The rightwing opinion leaders however are exploiting that resentment and using it, not addressing the legitimate concerns. I think that Obama's message of hope is designed to unite the people who are bing screwed and that, if elected, he will be reasonably populist. Edwards is very openly populist annd deserves credit for making populism an issue in the campaign.

Posted by: wonkie on April 16, 2007 12:07 PM

On the left side of the blogosphere, white males are often painted with one brush. We white males are all privileged, all racist, all insensitive, all frat-boys (who, incidentally, are also uniformly characterized as scum).

You're an idiot jbl. Nobody, on the left side of the blosphere remotely thinks like that. For one thing, lefty bloggers are overwhelmingly white and disproportionately male. So, this idea, that lefty bloggers are filled with self-loathing is quite stupid.

What does get pointed out is the absurdity of the self-pity coming from certain quarters.

Posted by: space on April 16, 2007 12:10 PM

re: evidence that the Duke lacrosse case is emblematic of something bigger--

It seems like it oughta be a widespread problem simply because the media has spent so. much. fucking. time on it.

I would quibble with Matt's statement "the system pretty much worked." If anybody cares, you should check out the series the Raleigh News & Observer is currently running about the case, specifically the conduct of Mike Nifong, the Durham DA. Nifong displayed a downright Bushian combination of bias and incompetence, due partly to (1) he had a personal connection with the alleged victim's family, and (2) he had a grudge against the defense lawyer for one of the players.

www.newsobserver.com

I'm open to theories on why we had the media blitz about this case. (That things are more important when they happen to pretty white people? That the media went crazy over the allegations when they thought they were true and felt they had to give equal time when the allegations proved false?) But intentionally or not, it reinforces the perception of a systematic problem: either the pervasiveness of false rape accusations, or the pervasiveness of rogue prosecutors who are out to get white men at the behest of black women.

Posted by: Dix Hill on April 16, 2007 12:10 PM

I grew up in Ames and it is believable to me that there wouuld be only a few incidents of violence in a year.

My family went on three month vacations every summer (my dad taught). We left the house unlocked and never got robbed. There was exactly one fight when I was in high school. One in four years.

Granted, I left Iowa thirty years ago and I'm sure things have changed, but still it wouuld not surprise me to learnn thhat thhe rate of violent crime is low.

Posted by: wonkie on April 16, 2007 12:12 PM

the pervasiveness of rogue prosecutors who are out to get white men at the behest of black women

I wouldn't have thought that there was anyone in America who thought that, or even could think that. Sweet Jeebus.

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 16, 2007 12:13 PM

Aimai, in 1994 right before he became Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich used the Susan Smith story as an example of Democratic depravity, even though Smith's stepfather Beverly (sic) Russell was a prominent Moral Majority Republican who sexually abused her. Gingrich was never called on this and never retracted it, and the story died. In my opinion that's the moment when it became impossible for a decent person to be a Republican. A few conservatives are starting to figure things out, but it's hard to respect someone who took 13 years to figure out that their party was run by slimy thugs.

If the parties were switched we'd bee hearing about the Gingrich-Smith episode about once a week, but the Democrats don't have that kind of noise machine. To a degree it's testimony to the decency of the Democrats, but it's also more evidence that the national media refuse to amplify stories embarrassing to Republicans.

When the truth about Smith and her Republican pervert stepfather came out, the story died, and almost no one remembers (President-to-be?) Gingrich's creepy, totally inexcusable slime-mongering. (Robert Scheer wrote about it a couple of times -- no one else).

On the balance, I think that the Democrats' refusal or inability to capitalize on this kind of case hurts them. In a decent world, stories like this would rightly disappear, but that's not our world. In a decent world Gingrich's hideous smear would have ended his career.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 12:14 PM

JBL: Not to pile on here, but come off it. When you are a member of the group that is more priveleged in society, and honest people of good intention are trying to point out and lessen inequality, you are going to take a few hits.
Life's a bitch in the big city.

Posted by: steveconga on April 16, 2007 12:15 PM

Perhaps the Duke Lacrosse players did get a "fair shake". Miscarriages of justice happen. If we live an in a fair and equitable society then occasionally those miscarriages will happen to privileged white boys as well as underprivileged black boys.

Posted by: Chris Andersen on April 16, 2007 12:15 PM

I am troubled by your disingenuous claim to be troubled.

No, really, I am troubled! Don't they teach the concept of "metaphor" in, like, 9th grade?

Posted by: Al on April 16, 2007 12:17 PM

steveconga, I think you misread his comment. I referred to the Charles Stuart case and then another case whose name he couldn't remember, where a woman and her boyfriend drove her car into a lake with her children still strapped inside. The name he couldn't remember was Susan Smith.

Posted by: dbt on April 16, 2007 12:18 PM

On the left side of the blogosphere, white males are often painted with one brush.

You mean like how we all hate Yglesias, Klein, Atrios, Bowers, JMM, etc.? Shit is hard, inn't?

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 16, 2007 12:18 PM

Well,talking out my ass here, but seem I remember feminists & GLBT dealing with the politics and psychology of "privilege" so much it is almost a discipline. Butler, Foucault. Lukacs?

Should be a wealth of material out there.

Posted by: bob mcmanus on April 16, 2007 12:19 PM

Al is deeply troubled indeed. All of the Als have been troubled.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 12:19 PM

Don't they teach the concept of "metaphor" in, like, 9th grade?

Ninth grade?!?! What kind of shit education did you get, Al? I now find your (presumed) support for charter schools acceptable and even well-informed.

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 16, 2007 12:20 PM

"who in all genuineness seem to believe that what went down there is emblematic of broad-based social problem

What an utter straw man.

Seriously - the evidence for this is...? Nothing, as far as I can tell. It exists solely in Matthew's mind.
Posted by: Al on April 16, 2007 11:29 AM"

Al, you're Exhibit A for what Matt is talking about.

Posted by: Reality Man on April 16, 2007 12:22 PM

"I am troubled by your disingenuous claim to be troubled.

No, really, I am troubled! Don't they teach the concept of "metaphor" in, like, 9th grade?
Posted by: Al on April 16, 2007 12:17 PM"

He could have chosen any metaphor. He chose a lynching. That does bring up questions of why he would specifically choose a lynching as his metaphor.

Posted by: Reality Man on April 16, 2007 12:24 PM

The system, it seems to me, pretty much worked.

Given that the defendents had to spend (tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?) of dollars, and the prosecutor clearly engaged in despicable conduct that should result in him being disbarred for life (viz, withholding key evidence from the defense), I disagree that "the system worked."

And of course the same thing is true when the Innocence Project gets someone freed: the system didn't work there, either.

In both cases, the State used enormous amounts of power in an attempt to smash someone who was innocent. The fact that large amounts of resources external to the State were marshalled to ensure justice prevailed is some solace, but doesn't IMHO mean "the system works".

One newspaper account I read recently of the vindication of the lacrosse players has them wondering what must happen to people who are unjustly accused who don't command the kinds of resources they were lucky to.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 12:24 PM

"But the idea that middle-aged white men as a class are being persecuted, well, well, not so much."

Don't you know Al Sharpton is keeping the white man down?

Posted by: Petey on April 16, 2007 12:25 PM

On the left side of the blogosphere, white males are often painted with one brush.

You mean like how we all hate Yglesias, Klein, Atrios, Bowers, JMM, etc.?

Not to ask a stupid question or anything, but does our blog host consider himself white?

Posted by: Peter on April 16, 2007 12:27 PM

I think this is the mirror image of the mentality that the main issue of the Amanda Marcotte controversey was what jerks Bill Donohue and Michelle Malkin are, and how important is was to "stand up" to them and not let them dictate actions.

Posted by: JohnMcG on April 16, 2007 12:27 PM

Some people brought up stagnant wages earlier. That is probably a big part of the problem. When you factor in the popularity of the likes of Limbaugh and O'Reilly, the threat of terrorism, the presence of well-off minority groups (Jewish-Americans, Indian-Americans, Chinese-Americans and others), the popularity of non-white cultural markers (everything from rap to the greater popularity of sushi) and all of this hoopla over illegal immigration, we are looking at the danger of a radicalized democracy and democratic authoritarianism. The Bush authoritarians, as outlined by John Dean, are probably a result of this.

Posted by: Reality Man on April 16, 2007 12:28 PM

Exactly so! That's why, when Jesse Jackson referred to New York as "Hymietown," it was appropriate to refer to the criticism he received as "a Holocaust."

Doin the Sharpton shuffle.... Anytime there is an issue of race, anytime at all, attack Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. This is part of MY's complaint-- the discussion is always about the failure of those two, not the larger issue at hand. The fact that Jesse Jackson said a deplorable thing has almost nothing to do with someone using the term lynching to describe what happened to Imus.

Posted by: Freddie on April 16, 2007 12:29 PM

Matt: that NRO post is hilarious! Thanks for the tip. I can't stop reading this weird construction:

"And as bad as Imus's racist recklessness was, no one so far has died—unlike the consequences of riot and rampage from Newsweek's bogus accusation that guards had flushed a Koran down a Guantanamo Bay cell toilet. "

Someday, when I'm an editor for National Review, I'll keep a running tab of the body counts attributable to my competitors' journalistic malfeasance. Would make a nice promotional flyer. As long as I don't mention my own...

Posted by: brent on April 16, 2007 12:30 PM

Not to ask a stupid question or anything, but does our blog host consider himself white?

If he has any integrity at all, he at least considers himself "pasty," and I think that's close enough for government work.

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 16, 2007 12:30 PM

Also don't forget Andrew Sullivan. He's always ragging on The Man. He must hate white Christian men.

Posted by: Reality Man on April 16, 2007 12:30 PM

I still don't buy the claim that all of these middle-aged men feel themselves persecuted--and that that is what is motivating responses on Duke and Imus. I would like to see some genuine evidence. In a way, I find objectionable that middle-aged men are treated as some kind of homogeneous category that can be talked about as they are in various posts.
I watched the Imus situation unfold on the cable at home every day last week and for someone who likes Imus (and there are many in this country who do), it had to me the feel of a public lynching. As I have probably said above, I have no problem with the end result, only the process. I wouldn't expect those who don't know, watch, or care about Imus to feel similarly.

Posted by: PaulD on April 16, 2007 12:31 PM

Reality Man,

The Victor Davis Hanson post to which Matthew linked discussed two specific items - Duke and Imus; it did not say that these items are emblematic of any larger problem. I would like to know what is the evidence that anybody thinks these two examples are "emblematic of broad-based social problem" in which people are keeping white, middle-cass men down. The VDH column doesn't present any such evidence, and neither does Matthew. That, to me, is the definition of a straw man - Matthew is knocking down an argument that nobody (including VDH) is making.

Posted by: Al on April 16, 2007 12:34 PM

The reason for the media blitz was simple: it's an irresistable news story.

Come on: a bunch of priveleged white-boy jocks who apparently thought they could get away with raping a black stripper, because they were athletic stars -- that spin is an irresistable starting-point for a news story. It's sensational, it gets people talking on both sides, it sells copy.

Add to that already-present tensions between the atheltic team and other parts of the university and it makes for brilliant theater, instant ratings, and a potential tv movie starring someone who used to be a teen idol on a now-cancelled popular tv series.

Not to mention that this kind of story is almost guaranteed to have people immediately taking sides -- I know when I first heard it I assumed those guys were guilty, because they were JOCKS, man... and it didn't help their case that they were immediately defended by a bunch of people who were defending them for no other reason than they were male, white, and star athletes.

But just because bigots leapt to their defense for all the wrong reasons it doesn't follow that there were no RIGHT reasons to defend them, and it looks like that those guys really were screwed over by a prosecutor who was ridiculously overstepping his authority. I don't think the system "worked as intended" so much as the system "pulled itself back from the brink at the last minute." And those guys will be tarnished with this anyway -- there are still people who will always believe they actually WERE rapists whatever the evidence suggests (I have seen posts stating as such).

The right wing is trying its damndest to make political hay out of this. The reason the right wing constantly characterizes itself as being victimized en masse is because one of the quickest, easiest and strongest ways to promote group unity is to characterize your group as being oppressed -- that's how the truly blatantly racist organizations (like the Aryan nation, etc.) "whip up the base," after all.

The defendents really don't deserve being made poster children of the right wing... it'd be nice to see a counter to it that doesn't demonize or dismiss the defendents out of hand... but how do you do that without politicizing them more? I have no fucking clue.

Posted by: The Baptist Death Ray on April 16, 2007 12:34 PM

I wouldn't have thought that there was anyone in America who thought that, or even could think that. Sweet Jeebus.

I just meant to say that I think ARE consequences when the media goes nuts over a story. The unspoken result of the furor over Duke Lacrosse (Imus as well, probably) is to popularize some variant of "white guys don't get a fair shake."

The single most salient thing about the Duke situation is what a terrible job the prosecutor did.

Posted by: Dix Hill on April 16, 2007 12:35 PM

the popularity of non-white cultural markers (everything from rap to the greater popularity of sushi)

While I would doubt that anyone keeps official statistics, it's certainly my impression that sushi is popular mostly among whites. And it's not secret that white suburban youths comprise a big chunk of the market for rap music.

Posted by: Peter on April 16, 2007 12:36 PM

As I have probably said above, I have no problem with the end result, only the process.

Part of this is simply a function of the tabloidization of news in America. It's just a variant of what The Editors described in the "Where's The White Woman At" post. I'm not even sure you can properly "blame" the media, which is responding to market incentives.

The plus side, I think, is that people increasingly take said process as a farce.

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 16, 2007 12:37 PM

Conservatives think that in the social realm, everything is a zero-sum game: if blacks get more rights, then whites will get fewer rights; if more women work, fewer men will work.

Liberals understand that in the real world, there is no take-away when an oppressed group gains rights and opportunities; and that, in fact, white males benefit economically from being in a more integrated and equal-opportunity society.

Posted by: lampwick on April 16, 2007 12:40 PM

PaulD wrote, I am astonished by anyone who says that in the Duke case that the system pretty much worked.

I said the same thing just now (which I posted before reading your comments).

I am also very troubled by the character of the public lynching of Don Imus--though, hell, it is time for him to re-invent himself so I am not particularly troubled that he was terminated.

The only way in which I can see the Imus affair as "troubling" is perhaps a missing sense of proportion. That is, it's reasonable to argue that Imus' crimes were miniscule compared to other things that go unpunished (e.g., current war crimes committed by Bush et al).

(IMHO the most troubling thing about Imus wasn't he himself, but rather the fact that many establishment figures were willing to go on his show. Probably because they liked the free publicity.)

The issue is not that the folks like me perceive that we as a class are being persecuted. Rather we see the stupidity and hypocrisy that continues to plague liberal democrats.

To the extent that liberal democrats are human, and humans of all stripes are often stupid and hypocritical, this is plausible.

To the extent that you're claiming that liberal Democrats are more hypocritical than (1) the Christian Right, (2) the non-theocratic wing of the Republican Party, (3) so-called "centrists, (4) so-called independents, you're wrong (and laughingly so).

The only real outstanding case of hypocrisy I see these days is party leaders kowtowing to the neoconservatives and AIPAC and not ruling out an unprovoked attack on Iran. But the only folks who have a record entitling them to morally attack the Dems as hypocritical on that one are various Dem and non-Dem liberals, and perhaps some antiwar right-wing libertarians.

I wake up every morning wondering: "why has my country been devastated by the plague of the George Bush administration-- which I consider the most evil presidency in US history?" And the answer I keep coming to is the way in which the Clinton administration and a kind of liberal democrat--and its character and hypocrisy--has significantly contributed to what has happened to us.

Huh?

The most you can lay at the feet of Clinton et al. is the emasculation of the party by making it move to the right and essentially stand for nothing. That hardly makes them responsible.

Re Bush, there are clearly two responsible groups:
(1) Christian conseratives
(2) Wealthy people (and their ideological supporters) who wanted their taxes cut.

I think that a major problem is that "liberals" speak only to other "like-minded" souls and don't engage others who view things quite differently than they do (bizarre reading of events).

Not sure what that's supposed to mean.

It's also difficult to communicate with people who take the Bible as the literal Word, and who think that there's evidence of true connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam. Sure, it's important as political tactics go to try to do so, but to go as far as blame is ludicrous.

When I first heard the Duke accusatiions, I was 98% certain that they were a crock. And those like Dan Abrams who looked at the stuff way back saythat it was a crock. That it took over a year for this issue to get resolved is a great travesty.

Sure, it's a travesty. And I feel bad for those guys. OTOH, this kind of stuff goes on all the time. Look into the bogus day-care prosecutions over the past couple of decades. Some of those people are still in jail, AFAIK.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 12:40 PM

You just have to watch O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Michael Savage, or any of several others for awhile to know that Matt's mostly right. And from time to time someone will come out and say some version of "The only ethnic group which is still fair game is the white heterosexual Christian male."

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 12:41 PM

This isn't legal blogging, I know, but Hitler's speeches during the Thirties were saturated with images of persecution and victimization, and Polish and Czech provocations were alleged in justification of the invasions of those two countries.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 12:47 PM

" I find it strange that anyone ASSUMED these guys were guilty."

Actually I went to Duke in the 90's and felt it pretty likely that the woman was telling the truth. It would be hard to find a group of more self-entitled and mutually-protected white guys than at "The Harvard of the South", who had absolutely zero respect or compassion for the horde of minorities that kept the place running for a few bucks over minimum wage. It was the most depressing place I've ever lived, and the racism was evident daily. If it turned out that a frat house had a basement furnished with the bones of raped and murdered black women, I would not have batted an eye. The surprising thing would have been if someone had done something about it.

Posted by: Mysticdog on April 16, 2007 12:50 PM

aimai wrote, Susan Smith who accused some fictitious black guy of carjacking her children when it was she herself who drowned them. Lets never forget her republican background and how easily the public and th epolice lapped up her story--for a while.

I don't disagree with that, in general, and I agree completely with John Emerson's remarks about Gingrich and Smith above.

OTOH, my recollection is that, at the time, the cops actually got onto the right track rather quickly in the Smith case. I could be wrong, but IIRC it was about a week. I remember thinking at the time that what probably happened is that they questioned Smith as part of their investigation, and started noticing something in her demeanor or answers.

So, on that one, I think the cops did a good job. Whether the media did another matter.

Charles Stuart, OTOH---I lived in the Boston area at the time, and the cops did a lousy job on that one.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 12:52 PM

Al, you are worse than Hitler.

That's just a metaphor Al, so you have no reason to be upset. Only Hitler would be upset by the use of a metaphor, Al.

Posted by: Al Fan on April 16, 2007 12:52 PM

At the national level the Republican party is basically resentment-fueled identity politics for white males, and it has been for a while. Just raw anger at displacement from what was previously culturally central position. The actual positions they take are all secondary to the main goal of restoring the authority of traditional male power. This is why they consistently support policies with no rational justification whatsoever; the justification is secondary to the cultural message sent.

Of course, all of this was triggered by the idiocy of far left politics in the late 60s / early 70s, when the left launched a vicious attack on the white middle class, especially men. There were many prominent voices on the left back then who were pushing the most dangerous and foolish excesses of "revolutionaries" and "radicals". Not much resulted from that kind of thing, because even at its peak the far left had little power in this country. But the reactionary backlash has been a bitch.

Posted by: MQ on April 16, 2007 12:55 PM

Mysticdog wrote, Actually I went to Duke in the 90's and felt it pretty likely that the woman was telling the truth.

I initially figured she was telling the truth, but the claims that the other woman (a stripper, IIRC) disagreed with with much/most of her story didn't fit.

The lessons to be learned:
(1) People really should be judged as innocent unless you really know enough about the details to have a reason to think them guilty. Media attention to cases is often not that illuminating and just there to sell copy.
(2) Prosecutorial power can be abused, and this abuse can harm anyone, though the chance is much higher you'll be harmed if you're poor.
(3) The solution to (2) is to improve the system so that prosecutorial abuses are prevented.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 12:57 PM

Unlike so many other commentators, i'm not quite willing to make the Duke University men's lacrosse team of 2006 out to be a bunch of heroes and martyrs for men's rights and other favorite conservative causes. (And no, i'm not going to give you a bunch of links to show what i'm saying. You've got google. Use it.)

What so many people seem to forget, is that based on the undisputed facts of the case, as well as the history of the Duke men's lacrosse team, we're not exactly dealing with a group of heroic young men.

Who can forget, for example, Ryan McFadyen's email, sent shortly after the stripper party, on a university email account:

"Tomorrow night, after tonights show, ive decided to have some strippers over," the message read. "However there will be no nudity. i plan on killing bitches as soon as the walk in and proceeding to cut their skin off."

The message goes on to read that he would find the act sexually gratifying.

McFadyen was allowed to continue pursuing his education at Duke. As i noted at the time, there isn't a corporation in the US that would have kept someone on the payroll if they used company email to post a message with such language. And i'm pretty sure that if someone were to write something like that on Facebook or MySpace, and high school or university administrators learned about it, they'd be forced to take disciplinary action, if only to protect their own sorry asses from the inevitable lawsuits they'd be exposing themselves to. (Discerning readers will recall that it was the publication of McFadyen's email that was the precipitating event in both Coach Pressler's "resignation" and the cancelling of the 2006 Duke lacrosse season.)

A lot of people tried to make the case stand for larger issues of racial, gender, and class politics that the United States has, to be honest, never fully confronted. At least in my lifetime. Generally, i've argued against that interpretation, and i still believe that, in its essence, this was a case about one woman and a small group of men. But to the extent we're going to use it as a jumping off point for discussions about gender and privilege, i think that McFadyen's email, and Duke University's subsequent response, marks the point at which social privilege becomes more than an abstract concept.

Further, people also forget that the entire party from which this incident grew, was in itself an act that should have precipitated a response from Duke University and its athletic department, regardless of whether or not a sexual assault occurred. When you are fortunate enough to represent Duke on the athletic field, you are also representing Duke in all of your interactions with the greater, surrounding Durham community. Serving alcohol and hiring strippers to entertain your underage teammates is a violation of community standards (not to mention a crime, albeit one that is seldom prosecuted) and should have been considered by Coach Pressler, AD Joe Alleva and Dick Brodhead to be a violation of University standards as well.

Posted by: barry ragin on April 16, 2007 12:58 PM

MQ wrote, Of course, all of this was triggered by the idiocy of far left politics in the late 60s / early 70s, when the left launched a vicious attack on the white middle class, especially men.

Plausible, but not likely.

I think the simplest and correct explanation behind the shift in political power in this country (and one which isn't exactly unpublicized) is that the Democratic Party, starting with LBJ, really began to defend the rights of African-Americans in the South. The coalition in the Democratic Party unravelled, and the previously Democratic South became the Republican South.

Let's not forget---in one gubenatorial election in Louisiana, David Duke won a majority of the white vote.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 01:00 PM

barry ragin wrote, Unlike so many other commentators, i'm not quite willing to make the Duke University men's lacrosse team of 2006 out to be a bunch of heroes and martyrs for men's rights and other favorite conservative causes.

Who among liberals posting here is saying they're heros or martyrs?

The claim is pretty simple: while they might or might not have the character defects you claim they have, the issue is were they guilty of the crime of which they were accused. The evidence is that they weren't. And there's 100% convincing evidence that Nifong withheld crucial info from the defense. AFAIC, he can rot in jail for eternity for that (though I'm sure he won't). Doesn't matter whether the victim of such prosecutorial abuse is white, black, purple, rich, poor, ...

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 01:04 PM

I think that Matt's point is that initially the legal system did not work, but that it self-corrected and ultimately worked. The media circus is a whole nother thing. From here it looks as though there will be consequences for the prosecutor, too.

The contrasting case of the system not working would be the various erroneous convictions where the victims actually served time or were executed. (As far as I remember, there haven't been any proven cases of wrongful execution yet, but there hasn't been a careful survey done either, and many trials were horrifyingly unjust.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 01:06 PM

barry ragin wrote, As i noted at the time, there isn't a corporation in the US that would have kept someone on the payroll if they used company email to post a message with such language. And i'm pretty sure that if someone were to write something like that on Facebook or MySpace, and high school or university administrators learned about it, they'd be forced to take disciplinary action, if only to protect their own sorry asses from the inevitable lawsuits they'd be exposing themselves to.

Uh, this might be a surprise to you, but while email is certainly not private, there's a much higher expectation of privacy for email than for Facebook or MySpace. Nor (AFAICT) are the behavioral rules for university email anything like that for corporate email.

Of course, given how light your reasoning appears to be, you'll now claim I'm defending the sentiments expressed in the email.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 01:08 PM

John Emerson wrote, I think that Matt's point is that initially the legal system did not work, but that it self-corrected and ultimately worked.

I completely disagree. The fact is that these guys perhaps avoided getting squashed only because they brought resource to bear on their own dime.

A system where someone can pull the crap Nifong did (regardless of the color of the defendents---and yes, I'm sure it happens to black defendents all the time) and not do serious jailtime (I'm speaking of Nifong here) or face an enormous fine is screwed up and definitely not working.

Nor, as I remarked above, is the fact that the Innocence Project can rescue people evidence that "the system is working."

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 01:13 PM

Well, in a perfect prosecutorial system with perfect prosecutors things like this wouldn't ever happen, but I think that's an unreasonable standard. One guy seems to have fucked up badly, and it took awhile for him to get slapped down, but he was. I don't know all the details of what Nifong did, and maybe it was so egregious that someone should have intervened at the beginning, but every system of any kind has fuckups, and with a legal system they're pretty weighty.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 01:20 PM

"The Victor Davis Hanson post to which Matthew linked discussed two specific items - Duke and Imus; it did not say that these items are emblematic of any larger problem. I would like to know what is the evidence that anybody thinks these two examples are "emblematic of broad-based social problem" in which people are keeping white, middle-cass men down. The VDH column doesn't present any such evidence, and neither does Matthew. That, to me, is the definition of a straw man - Matthew is knocking down an argument that nobody (including VDH) is making.
Posted by: Al on April 16, 2007 12:34 PM"

Umm, Matt didn't say the VDH mentioned that. What he did mention was how such posts are part of a long-standing trend among white middle-aged conservative Christians of playing the victim. This is why Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are obsessions of the right because their existence lets old white conservative straight Christian guys jump on the victimization bandwagon. VDH, along with many posters at NRO, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and pretty much the rest of FoxNews, writers at the Weekly Standard, the WSJ editorial page, your posts on various blogs, etc. tend to fit this to a T. To a certain extent, it is what Stephen Colbert is skewering. When you get enough data points, you start seeing a trend and it is the trend of white, middle-aged, conservative straight men complaining they are being victimized as part of broader social changes and that the world is out to get them. You're just being deliberately obtuse not to notice it.

"the popularity of non-white cultural markers (everything from rap to the greater popularity of sushi)

While I would doubt that anyone keeps official statistics, it's certainly my impression that sushi is popular mostly among whites. And it's not secret that white suburban youths comprise a big chunk of the market for rap music.
Posted by: Peter on April 16, 2007 12:36 PM"

Very true, but these, I would guess, would be popular among younger white Americans. The media didn't complain about rap when it was mostly located in the Bronx, but when it started to gain "mass popularity." Also think of the attack ad on Dean in Iowa that called him "sushi-eating" and contrasted him with the old, white speakers. Dean's support, at least how the media played it, came from younger voters who grew up during the Clinton years in a post-All in the Family America. This resentment doesn't only get aimed at minorities and women, but also "metrosexuals" (which Dean portrayed himself as with his rolled-up sleeves and such) and white kids who listen to rap ("How can I let my child listen to such filth!" screamed by parents who apparently never listened hard to the lyrics of the Beatles' "Run for Your Life."). However, the metrosexuals and younger white kids are secondary targets to the fear of the dangerous black man, the illegal Mexican, the powerful Feminazi, the out and married gay guy, and so on.

Posted by: Reality Man on April 16, 2007 01:22 PM

barry ragin wrote, Further, people also forget that the entire party from which this incident grew, was in itself an act that should have precipitated a response from Duke University and its athletic department, regardless of whether or not a sexual assault occurred. When you are fortunate enough to represent Duke on the athletic field, you are also representing Duke in all of your interactions with the greater, surrounding Durham community. Serving alcohol and hiring strippers to entertain your underage teammates is a violation of community standards (not to mention a crime, albeit one that is seldom prosecuted) and should have been considered by Coach Pressler, AD Joe Alleva and Dick Brodhead to be a violation of University standards as well.

Huh. And all these years, I thought talk about actually applying moral standards to athletes (college and pro) was a bad joke. Who knew?

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 01:24 PM

It's a mentality that believes -- deeply and sincerely -- that the middle-aged white dude just can't get a fair shake in this country.

This an overstatment, although I'm sure some people feel that strongly. But there is an undercurrent of resentment that conservatives foster and promote as a way to prevent or weaken a broad, multi-racial progressive coalition and advance their own agenda in the same way mullahs use an undercurrent of cultural and religious resentment in the muslim world to advance their own agenda. Just as it's a mistake to assume the vast majority of muslims hate the west and only understand the language of power, it's also a mistake to think all those susceptible to the lure of racial and gender resentment in this country are unredeemable racists. The fact is that the appearance of liberal "power" pressuring NBC and CBS to fire Imus is likely to make more white men susceptible to the lure of right wingers peddling the politics of resentment just like unrestrained exercise of U.S. power creates more terrorists. That's the way resentment works.

The fact that, in reality, being white and male is still an advantage (all things being equal) is irrelevant. People affiliate themselves politically and vote based on perception. Dems should exercise a little bit of good ole liberal empathy to understand why some white men might feel resentment (without agreeing that they're right) and work to reverse the perception. To do otherwise because you feel contempt for those white men is as self-indulgent and self-defeating as the Bush war on terror.

Posted by: Led on April 16, 2007 01:28 PM

John Emerson wrote, Well, in a perfect prosecutorial system with perfect prosecutors things like this wouldn't ever happen, but I think that's an unreasonable standard.

That's not the standard I'm thinking of. The standard I'm thinking of is one where the statistical likelihood is minimized, at a reasonable cost to society.

I claim the current system fails that standard.

One guy seems to have fucked up badly, and it took awhile for him to get slapped down, but he was.

I think his punishment will probably be much lighter than it should be. I also think this kind of crap happens much more frequently than it need to.

I don't know all the details of what Nifong did, and maybe it was so egregious that someone should have intervened at the beginning, but every system of any kind has fuckups, and with a legal system they're pretty weighty.

He deliberately withheld DNA evidence from the defense. I'd say that's egregious. The worst punishment I can see him getting is disbarred for life. I think the punishment should be much stronger for that. (Just like I don't see how those cops in Britain who plugged that Brazilian guy in the head with a number of bullets aren't guilty of negligent homicide, given the details of what actually happened.)

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 01:30 PM

It also has been a damning indictment of an intellectually dishonest culture that pretends to the virtue of enlightened tolerance, but only for a select few. White males are the last remaining group approved for public vilification.

That's just one example, but you see and hear the equivalent all over the place. Matt didn't look for specific examples, so Al was able to play dumb and pretend that it isn't happening. (To Al there's no reality outside the comment threads, as we know.)

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 01:35 PM

Withholding evidence is pretty bad, all right.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 01:40 PM

liberal wrote: Uh, this might be a surprise to you, but while email is certainly not private, there's a much higher expectation of privacy for email than for Facebook or MySpace. Nor (AFAICT) are the behavioral rules for university email anything like that for corporate email.

Uh, sorry bub. You send email out on a corporate account, and you have no expectation of privacy.

Here's an experiment you can try, assuming you have a job and are not self-employed. Use your employer's email system to send out an email threatening to "kill some bitches and cut their skin off."

See how long you keep your job.

If you're a student, feel free to try the same thing with your university email. Please let me know how it goes.

As for the remark about conservative commentators, i wasn't referring to this blog, but to large segments of the rest of the world, especially Durham and Duke related listserves to which i subscribe. Although i thought my context was clear, i can see how some readers might not have understand that. My apologies for my lack of clarity.

If you go to my blog and read the entire post, from which my earlier comments were mostly excerpted, you'll notice that i don't defend Mike Nifong. Withholding exculpatory evidence in any case should get him fired, at least.

but a reminder, serving alcohol and providing sexually explicit entertainment to minors remains a crime. that this happened in the Duke lacrosse case is agreed to by all parties. In the context of Duke/Durham relations, which for most of us who live here in Durham is at least as big a part of the case as gender, class, and racial politics, this kind of anti-social behavior on the part of Duke students has been an ongoing issue for as long as anyone can remember. the costs are borne by the greater Durham community, while Duke just rolls its eyes, sighs and says "boys will be boys."

Posted by: barry ragin on April 16, 2007 01:48 PM

As a white male, I don't feel particularly oppressed. I do, however, take issue with the description of a media circus that took a year out of the lives of a group of people later declared innocent as "The system...pretty much worked." It failed appallingly, and the failure would be appalling whether the accused were white, black, or purple. It failed not because a prosecutor overreached, but because there was nothing to restrain him from doing so.

I also take issue with the statement that it was tangential to your main interests. The media/government processes that convicted the lacrosse players in the court of public opinion are remarkably similar to the ones that led us to war. You didn't feel the evidence justified a conclusion, but that opinion was noteworthy in its own right.

Posted by: Bob on April 16, 2007 02:02 PM

This ain't hard. The only claim America has to being special is if we're better people -- have more social equality -- than everyone else.

Even Bush understands that. (Okay, Bush doesn't totally get it, but he sure gets worked up on those hard-scrabble biographies of the losers he appoints. His actual policies stink too.)

Posted by: chris on April 16, 2007 02:04 PM

Yeah, liberal, you're probably right.But this case still doesn't rank very high on my list of legal injustices, given the outcome and the difference between the way this case played out and the way the other cases play out.

I don't see the analogy between the Duke prosecutions and the Iraq War at all. What are they? Both were wrong? Both involved misrepresentations? Pretty thin.

Matt doesn't post on every wrongful prosecution of black people or of other victims "approved by liberals", either, and anyway, usually wrongful prosecutions only make it to the news at all once the accused is jailed (and in some cases, once they've been in jail for years).

If you're a rightwing white guy, this was obviously an enormous story, the biggest story ever, but there are lots of enormous stories out there. Nothing wrong with not touching it, especially because the same guys bitching at liberals were doing such a damn good very loud job of getting the job done. The liberals I'm in touch with fairly quickly concluded that it was a bad case, though not every liberal did.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 02:14 PM

barry ragin wrote, Uh, sorry bub. You send email out on a corporate account, and you have no expectation of privacy.

You're really stupid enough to think that email is no more private than a webpage?

LOL!

There's no "expectation of privacy" in email in many settings (e.g., corporate) insofar as one always must assume that Big Brother is looking over your shoulder. But it's never clear that BB isn't looking the other way, either.

Web pages, OTOH, are an entirely different story---there's no privacy, period, in either the narrow strong sense I outlined above, or any other sense. It's the difference between sending a postcard in the mail (== email) and having an advertisement with a photo in a city paper (== webpage).

You're clued out, dude.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 02:45 PM

John Emerson wrote, Yeah, liberal, you're probably right.But this case still doesn't rank very high on my list of legal injustices, given the outcome and the difference between the way this case played out and the way the other cases play out.

You keep missing the point.

Yes, it's a graver injustice that someone is on death row for a crime he didn't commit. But that's not the point I'm making. The point is that this is an example of a prosecutor committing a gross injustice and (I predict) suffering very little (given what he did).

Of course, it's _only_ an example, but the point of having rules is to minimize such egregious examples to a reasonable extent.

I claim (a) this stuff happens way too often, (b) the fact that it wasn't all that easy for financially endowed defendents to get things straight shows all the more how screwed even poorer people are in these situations, and (c) the fact that the prosecutor will not suffer that much is a sign of a systematic problem, not an isolated one, because the rules in place don't provide sufficient punishment when this kind of prosecutorial misconduct goes on.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 02:50 PM

John Emerson wrote, I don't see the analogy between the Duke prosecutions and the Iraq War at all. What are they? Both were wrong? Both involved misrepresentations? Pretty thin.

Which post of mine are you referring to? I don't see any mention of the Iraq war, but maybe I'm not looking closely enough.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 02:57 PM

I'm assuming, contrary to you, that the prosecutor will suffer much more than he has so far.

I have to admit that I'm pretty pessimistic about the justice of even the best possible police and prosecution work. I think that it's one of the most dramatic areas where the best you can hope for is a lesser evil. Both in law enforcement and in the trial process there seems to be a lot of intrinsic slack making a fair amount of arbitrary injustice inevitable.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 03:00 PM

John Emerson wrote, I'm assuming, contrary to you, that the prosecutor will suffer much more than he has so far.

How? He can be disbarred. But there's no statutory punishment for what he did. And it's not even clear he can be sued by the defendents, because he was acting in his role as a government official. This last point is debatable, from what I read.

Maybe you're right; I certainly hope so. But prosecutors have been getting away with much worse (against defendents of all colors, it need not be added) and suffered very little.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 03:03 PM

John Emerson wrote, Both in law enforcement and in the trial process there seems to be a lot of intrinsic slack making a fair amount of arbitrary injustice inevitable.

Some amount, yes. But the system can be improved. Clearly it's vastly improved over just a few decades ago, when there was no constitutionally recognized right to even a court-appointed lawyer---Gideon v. Wainwright wasn't decided until 1963, after all.

Posted by: liberal on April 16, 2007 03:06 PM

Nifong does need to go to jail, but he kinda also needs to be in line behind the SOBs in Tulia, no?

Posted by: Kimmitt on April 16, 2007 03:08 PM

Ridiculous post.

First, to the extent there is an original idea here it should be dated back to about 1994, when Angry White Men swept Republicans into control of Congress. Now MY has identified this theme 13 years later?

Secondly, the conclusion - middle aged white men feel persecuted - is a strawman. White man feel subject to a double standard. Review the hiring practices of the Clinton Administration or the controversy over Affirmative Action for a hint as to why that is in the employment field; review the language that gets Imus fired versus that which gets any number of black rappers/comedians a rich contract and reflect on the entertainment industry.

Or think about why the Duke story was news for yet another sense of double standards. If you think three black athletes on a prominent team at a big time school would get as much attention, tell me abut the Minnesota rape case (which has gotten essentially zero coverage, although superficially it seems to be a tale of jocks run amuck at a big time program.) But that is not news because... I would welcome a non-racist explanation.

Third, the idea that the system worked in the Duke case is absurd, as noted above.

Fourth, the three Duke players could hardly be called "middle aged", since they are even younger than Matt, a fact most informed observers considered to be not humanly possible.

Posted by: Tom Maguire on April 16, 2007 03:33 PM

I have to agree with barry on this one. System aside, looking at this from the point of view of pure justice, I think they probably got off lightly. They didn't serve any time but they should have been prosecuted for serving a large number of minors. The fines and legal bills would probably have been somewhere in the same ballpark. I am not sure if serving to minors involves jail time in NC, but they didn't serve any time anyway. So they leave with their records clean (except for the guy who already had legal troubles), but they suffer the ignominity of being caught for the scumbags they really are.

The only aspect of this that has really played out in a potentially grossly unfair way for them was the overblown national media circus. In the end I bet these guys make out like bandits. They can apply for wingnut welfare and sell their victimhood for millions.

Posted by: Ricky on April 16, 2007 03:52 PM

Yay! Tom Maguire! Angry White Man!

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 03:54 PM

John Emerson:

"If you're a rightwing white guy, this was obviously an enormous story, the biggest story ever, but there are lots of enormous stories out there. Nothing wrong with not touching it, especially because the same guys bitching at liberals were doing such a damn good very loud job of getting the job done. The liberals I'm in touch with fairly quickly concluded that it was a bad case, though not every liberal did."

There is a cost to not touching it. If only right wingers object to an obvious attempt to railroad white guys it is natural to conclude that only right wingers care about white guys getting railroaded. If liberals don't like losing the white guy vote by 25% perhaps they should worry about that perception.

Posted by: James B. Shearer on April 16, 2007 03:59 PM

SomeCallMeTim:

"the pervasiveness of rogue prosecutors who are out to get white men at the behest of black women

I wouldn't have thought that there was anyone in America who thought that, or even could think that. Sweet Jeebus."

This is a little hard to believe. You never heard of "Bonfire of the Vanities" and the search for the "great white defendent".

Posted by: James B. Shearer on April 16, 2007 04:03 PM

Fourth, the three Duke players could hardly be called "middle aged", since they are even younger than Matt

Yes, and when they suited up, they looked like country-club members in waiting. Which isn't uncommon across a certain stratum of college life.

Poor Tom's a cold again.

Posted by: pseudonymous in nc on April 16, 2007 04:10 PM

Speaking only as another eponymous albeit less read blogger, while I agree it is dubious at best to contend that white middle-aged men as a class (to which I belong) are persecuted, I fail to see what that has to do either with the rush to judgment on the part of much of the media in the early and even later stages of the Duke case or whether biases of race and gender and class affected, as they almost certainly did, a criminal prosecution.

Of course, accusations of rape should be taken seriously and investigated. It is the unreasonably protracted length of time and the persistence of a prejudiced reporting throughout that length of time until the defendants (hardly middle aged men) were finally exonerated that is at issue. I fail to see what that has to do with the politics, meta- or otherwise, of resentment on anyone's part.

Posted by: D.A. Ridgely on April 16, 2007 04:25 PM

There is a cost to not touching it. If only right wingers object to an obvious attempt to railroad white guys it is natural to conclude that only right wingers care about white guys getting railroaded. If liberals don't like losing the white guy vote by 25% perhaps they should worry about that perception.

This is a fake hot air internet issue. It's a dog and pony show. There are a lot of real factors that should be dealt with WRT the white guy vote, but Matt is not a political spokesman; he's one single blogger who does about three stories a day. The people screeching now will always be able to find something to screech about.

From the politically realistic point of view, a bunch of overprivileged frat boys who apparently didn't abuse a stripper they hired are not good poster children. This will blow over.

I fail to see what that has to do with the politics, meta- or otherwise, of resentment on anyone's part.

Yeah, you do fail. Where do you come from originally, and when did you come to the US? Have you every heard of a thing called a "television?"

There's no reason why the Duke case should be at the top of anyone's list of injustices. The case is prominent because a lot of wingers are trying to make liberals look bad. But really, liberals don't look bad except for the ones who jumped in prejudging the defendants guilt abd then didn't change their minds. The argument about "not caring enough" is bogus.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 04:38 PM

"but a reminder, serving alcohol and providing sexually explicit entertainment to minors remains a crime."

I dunno about North Carolina, but in Michigan serving alcohol to those under 21 is a crime, showing them strippers isn't, so long as they're over 18.

Let's just say I'd be a hypocrite if I got all up in arms about throwing a party at an off-campus house while you're in college and handing out booze to whoevered pay $3 for all the foamy Bud Light they wanted to drink. But I wasn't a Duke-Lacross team level asshole, so I think that's the crucial difference, not serving minors. My roomates and I put up signs saying you had to be 21 to drink, in some sort of half-assed attempt to avoid ticketing.

Posted by: witless chum on April 16, 2007 04:38 PM

Yay! Tom Maguire! Angry White Man!

I spent several days telling people that the only useful thing about the Imus debacle was that it fed my paranoia and resentment, so it is not as if Matt is scoring huge points for insight with this post.

However, even paranoids have legitimate grievances. The media lust to see some white college kids clapped in irons, and a prosecutor's desire to ride that same desire into elective office, was shameful. The idea that there was no legitimate story here is absurd; I always figured that earnest libs ducked it so as to avoid the wrath of the feminists - now Matt tells us that he just didn't see anything interesting here. Uh huh.

Posted by: Tom Maguire on April 16, 2007 05:11 PM

How about the idea that Matt does three or so stories a day, and Matt didn't think that this had to be one of them? Lots of people think it's an enormous story, Matt doesn't, Matt is unapologetic and says why.

Posted by: John Emerson on April 16, 2007 05:25 PM

I'm one of those people (not restricted to liberals) who gets exasperated when other folks start laying down opinions about a criminal trial. Whether it was the OJ case or JonBenet Ramsey or the Duke Lacrosse team or Kobe Bryant or Robert Blake: I have always said in no uncertain terms that I didn't know enough about it and neither do you.
I also acknowledge that there's been this kind of speculation ever since we were taught how to kill by the black monolith. It's all around me, and my yelling doesn't do any good. The one got thing about the OJ trial was seeing the size of the backlash against the saturation coverage.)
While I was incensed at the slurs hurled at the stripper, and said so, it was in the interest of a fair trial, not blaming whitey.
I didn't follow the case, just as i didn't follow any of the other cases I mentioned. I was interested in finding what the outcome was when it was decided. (I also don't bet on sports events, so I guess that makes me weird.)

I have little respect for someone who comes to conclusions when the facts aren't known ESPECIALLY when there's a process going on intent on finding what those facts are. I have less respect for people who generalize from a single instance. There are jocks who rape strippers--and jocks who don't. There are honest strippers--and ones who lie through their teeth. And jeffrey Jones really does like underage girls and Winona Ryder really did shoplift.
And Vince Foster's death was a suicide.

If you flip a coin 5,000 times and it comes up tails 5,000 times, what are the odds of it coming up heads the next time?

50/50.

(The Im us case is entirely different: none of the facts were in dispute. PaulD, it was no lynching, but another grand american tradition, called riding him out of town on a rail.)

Posted by: pbg on April 16, 2007 05:38 PM

PaulD on Imus: "it had to me the feel of a public lynching."

Just how exactly do you know what a public lynching feels like?

Posted by: InSpace on April 16, 2007 06:36 PM

Here's another Chris Rock quote:

"Shit, there ain't a white man in this room
that would change places with me - And I'm rich! That's how good it is to be white." - Bigger and Blacker

Posted by: Peter H on April 16, 2007 09:02 PM

If only right wingers object to an obvious attempt to railroad white guys it is natural to conclude that only right wingers care about white guys getting railroaded.

I'd just like to note that I am extremely creeped out by the notion of a white racial identity.

Posted by: Steve on April 16, 2007 09:15 PM

I think that Matt pretty much gets it right in the first place. Middle-class white men aren't particularly oppressed in the US, but some middle-class white men can't catch a break. They, like the rest of us, have had their wages stagnate, their health care go to pot, their spouses take extra jobs and not have the same time and energy they did, seen their children struggle (or worse, die overseas for the greater glory of Bush). But most non-white or non-men or non-middle class people don't have upitty women/minorities/what-have-you to blame for it. It's a different kind of rage when the formerly-privileged gets thrown to the wolves.

Posted by: NBarnes on April 16, 2007 09:28 PM

How about the idea that Matt does three or so stories a day, and Matt didn't think that this had to be one of them?

Everyone is entitled to their cover story. Among other topics Matt writes about media foibles, race relations, political correctness and the madness of crowds, yet never saw a story here? Right.

I am sticking wit my theory - most libs ducked this because they ran a risk of breaking solidarity with a subset of enraged feminists. Heaven forbid MY having to defend himself against charges of being weak on women's issues; far safer to duck it for a year then blame everything on angry middle-aged white men.

Posted by: Tom Maguire on April 16, 2007 11:29 PM

I am sticking wit my theory

Heh. "Theory." Is that what you call your knee-jerk assumption, based only on your nightmares about the scary feminazis hiding under your bed?

I'll take Matt's word for this instead of accepting your guesses about his intentions. I don't find it at all hard to believe that this case wasn't all that interesting. Frankly, I don't find it interesting myself. I do find the Oppressed White Males' reactions to it interesting, though.

Posted by: Leia on April 17, 2007 12:27 AM

Has somebody actually said that these kids deserved all the shit they went through because they served alcohol to adults between the ages of 18 and 20 (18 year olds are not minors)? The drinking age in this country is a national disgrace, and is violated by just about everybody.

Beyond that, the lacrosse team was punished rather strongly for the party - their whole season was cancelled (and the next one, as well?). That's a pretty serious punishment for an athletic team. The coach was also fired/resigned over the thing. That already seems to me like a rather hefty punishment for doing something that just about every fraternity in America does.

I don't particularly like privileged frat boy jock assholes like the Duke lacrosse players, but I much more strongly dislike laws and rules that are applied so haphazardly that they are routinely violated and punished only in a completely arbitrary manner.

As to the broader question, yeah, white male ressentiment is obnoxious. That being said, it's rather old news, and I don't see that it's terribly productive to complain about in this case, where it proved to actually be right. Better to use this case as a warning on the dangers of prosecutorial misconduct. As others have already said, the Dukies got vindicated because they spent a lot of money. Most people can't afford that, and we all ought to wonder how many innocent people are in prison right now as a result of actions as egregious as Nifong's, which didn't attract attention because they don't appeal to white male ressentiment.

Posted by: John on April 17, 2007 12:58 AM

1. What im wondering is if youll address the growing pile of evidence which suggests the wolfowitz 'scandal' is the creation of his opponents in the world bank.

2. Why is it I get the feeling that you wouldve addressed the evidence of the duke lacrosse players innocence had it been conservaties and not liberals falling over themselves to presume their guilt?

3. The sentiments you ascribe to the victor davis hanson piece simply arent there. Still perhaps you just know the tacit motivations behind the piece just as so many of your fellow travellers knew the lacrosse players were guilty. If it fits with your prejudices who gives a fuck whether it fits with the facts, right?

Posted by: pimp hand strikes! on April 17, 2007 05:21 AM

What im wondering is if youll address the growing pile of evidence which suggests the wolfowitz 'scandal' is the creation of his opponents in the world bank.

What I'm wondering is if you'll point to that 'growing pile of evidence', or just wave your hands airily while suggesting there's something there? Because the other pile of evidence -- the one with Wolfowitz, his admissions, his girlfriend, and a nice big salary -- is pretty substantial.

Posted by: pseudonymous in nc on April 17, 2007 06:10 AM

Yep, because every fraternity does it, it must be A-OK! Just like Imus, he got railroaded for saying something that in the 50's wouldn't have caused anyone to bat an eye, that sure is unfair. It's this attitude that 'everyone does it' that has allowed for a continuation of our facile racism and sexism in every endeavor. Its why rapes are underreported and why black people get targeted by police more than whites even though the incident for criminal behavior isn't that different.

People are quick to defend what was reprehensible behavior, though perhaps not criminal, just because of some ridiculous notion that its somehow legitimate behavior. There is plenty of evidence to say these guys are pretty scummy. I will be the first to admit that I engaged in my own 'hijinks' in college and I look back on it with some shame, but mostly with a sense of thankfulness that I didn't get throw in jail for PI or shoplifting or DUI.

Posted by: Ricky on April 17, 2007 10:06 AM

The news and entertainment medium's mindset since the mid-1960s has become whites oppress blacks, rich oppress poor, men oppress women. The Duke Rape Case was a "perfect" storm, containing all their sterotypical villians. When wrongly accused white, rich men express resentment, it is for this culture of guilt that perverts any attempt at fairness.

Posted by: Chas on April 17, 2007 11:55 AM

And, well, I just don't know what to say to a mentality like that. I certainly think that lots and lots of people in this country -- including, naturally, lots of middle-aged people and lots of white people and lots of male people -- do, in fact, have a hard time getting a fair shake in the contemporary United States.

In the LBJ Library, there's an exhibit on the civil rights movement and there's a picture of a man holding a sign that says something to the effect of "No jobs for coloreds until every white man has one." I'm paraphrasing, but that's the general gist of it. For middle aged white men not getting breaks, it's simply easier to blame minorities and women than the people restricting opportunities for us all.

Posted by: Amanda Marcotte on April 17, 2007 06:09 PM

Let us be very clear on one thing.

Don Imus was not 'lynched'.

Lynched, taken as a non-literal phrase, is what happens to people who have done nothing wrong, are suspected of doing something wrong, and then endure serious insult and punishment based on that suspicion alone. What happened to the Duke Lacrosse players might be described as a 'lynching', though some might be slighted in the process. (considering black men were once really lynched on suspicions of rape)

Personally, I did not believe Don Imus deserved to lose his job, on the grounds that his cruelty and bad taste went in all directions.

But to pretend he was persecuted is just insane. And to somehow bring rappers into the equation is even more insane. There is no issue of a double-standard here, and people who think so might better themselves by reading a book.

When Imus, a middle-aged white guy, calls a group of black women 'nappy headed hos' he is echoing, intentionally or not, a very ugly and unpleasant part of this nations past. Black women were once thought of by white men as sexual property - you had sex with them, one way or the other.

When Ludacris, on the other hand, sing 'yous a ho' he is reflecting, quite deliberately, a black urban sub-culture. We might decry that culture, and accuse it of being misogynist and self-destructive and the like, but it doesn't carry the same poison as slavery and Jim Crow.

Comes the question: Why does the fact that we white guys cant call black women 'nappy headed hos' arouse so much anger and outrage? Why do we even want the ability - the opportunity - to call them that? I'm no angel, but those words aren't even in my vocabulary.

Posted by: Neal Murray on April 18, 2007 03:55 AM

Just how exactly do you know what a public lynching feels like?

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