Somethings Can't Be Compared
Discovered at Newsbusters:
DON'T FEEL TOO SORRY FOR THE DUKIES
These people make me ill.
In a list of things to "remember," the blogger Terry Moran, lists the following:
I think Rutgers might take exception with the fact that Mr. Moran does not think their students are of the same ilk as students of Duke.
And a few comparisons of my own, since everyone else is doing it:
On campus tuition to attend Rutgers for the 1999-2000 school year $12,244.
Tuition at Duke for the 03-04 year was $37,555. So considerably more. However, I think parents paying the $12,244 would take issue with the fact that Mr. Moran is saying their education is going to lead to less success than those students who attend Duke.
Maybe, since I'm a state school girl myself, I take issue with his comments too. Private Universities are great if you can go ... but state schools are good too. We have great athletics, just like the big schools (Rutgers was in the NCAA finals) and we have good teachers, just like the big schools. We just don't have as many rich alumni ... but oh well.
The thing is ... how does Mr. Moran know what lies ahead for those women? How does he know that one of their parents isn't the creator of a great new technology? How does he know what those women are studying? One of them could cure cancer. One of them could save his life. One of them could help him on his home loan.
By writing what he wrote, he's fitting into the stereotype he's arguing against. He's assuming these girls are downtrodden and have limited potential, just because of their race and where they go to school. It's garbage.
I like the NCAA slogan best ...
Those girls should have a great future ahead of them, and they will get past the media race baiting and the horrible comments of Don Imus. It will pass within the month. What happened to the Duke boys went on for two years, and will follow them forever.
The Duke LaCrosse players, any time anyone googles their names this case will come up. Any time they do a background check. Any time they apply for a job. And everyone google's people these days. If you go out on a date with someone before googling their name you're taking an unneccessary risk. These men will have this follow them for the rest of their lives. Nothing anyone does will make the past two years better for them.
They may be spoiled rich kids. They may have benefited from the choices their parents made and the good lives their parents tried to make for them, but they are still people who were wrongly convicted of a crime in the court of public opinion, when there was no crime at all. Morally their actions were terrible. But legally they did nothing wrong. And I bet a million dollars that they will never hire a stripper again. And I would hope that boys would be taught a similar lesson by example.
There is no comparison between what happened to the women of Rutgers and the men of Duke. Two completely different things.
What can be compared is the actions of the ridiculous bystanders who want to be in the spot light. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Their behavior, is ridiculous.
DON'T FEEL TOO SORRY FOR THE DUKIES
These people make me ill.
In a list of things to "remember," the blogger Terry Moran, lists the following:
The young men were able to retain a battery of top-flight attorneys, investigators and media strategists.In America, or at least in the media, being able to properly defend yourself is a reason that we should not feel sympathy for you after you've been exonerated from a crime you did not committ.
As students of Duke University or other elite institutions, these young men will get on with their privileged lives. There is a very large cushion under them--the one that softens the blows of life for most of those who go to Duke or similar places, and have connections through family, friends and school to all kinds of prospects for success. They are very differently situated in life from, say, the young women of the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
I think Rutgers might take exception with the fact that Mr. Moran does not think their students are of the same ilk as students of Duke.
And a few comparisons of my own, since everyone else is doing it:
On campus tuition to attend Rutgers for the 1999-2000 school year $12,244.
Tuition at Duke for the 03-04 year was $37,555. So considerably more. However, I think parents paying the $12,244 would take issue with the fact that Mr. Moran is saying their education is going to lead to less success than those students who attend Duke.
Maybe, since I'm a state school girl myself, I take issue with his comments too. Private Universities are great if you can go ... but state schools are good too. We have great athletics, just like the big schools (Rutgers was in the NCAA finals) and we have good teachers, just like the big schools. We just don't have as many rich alumni ... but oh well.
The thing is ... how does Mr. Moran know what lies ahead for those women? How does he know that one of their parents isn't the creator of a great new technology? How does he know what those women are studying? One of them could cure cancer. One of them could save his life. One of them could help him on his home loan.
By writing what he wrote, he's fitting into the stereotype he's arguing against. He's assuming these girls are downtrodden and have limited potential, just because of their race and where they go to school. It's garbage.
I like the NCAA slogan best ...
There are over 380,000 student athletes in the NCAA. And most of us will go pro in something other than sports.
Those girls should have a great future ahead of them, and they will get past the media race baiting and the horrible comments of Don Imus. It will pass within the month. What happened to the Duke boys went on for two years, and will follow them forever.
The Duke LaCrosse players, any time anyone googles their names this case will come up. Any time they do a background check. Any time they apply for a job. And everyone google's people these days. If you go out on a date with someone before googling their name you're taking an unneccessary risk. These men will have this follow them for the rest of their lives. Nothing anyone does will make the past two years better for them.
They may be spoiled rich kids. They may have benefited from the choices their parents made and the good lives their parents tried to make for them, but they are still people who were wrongly convicted of a crime in the court of public opinion, when there was no crime at all. Morally their actions were terrible. But legally they did nothing wrong. And I bet a million dollars that they will never hire a stripper again. And I would hope that boys would be taught a similar lesson by example.
There is no comparison between what happened to the women of Rutgers and the men of Duke. Two completely different things.
What can be compared is the actions of the ridiculous bystanders who want to be in the spot light. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Their behavior, is ridiculous.
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