should be sympathy for Duke guys, not Rutgers girls

The Duke guys are now the Scottsboro Boys, except they're white, wealthy and free.
Their reputations, within a short space of time, particularly if Nifong gets roasted the way I think he might, are going to be fine.
And Rok it does usually have to go there. Otherwise, it never does.

 

I'd say it's more like jaywalking and getting hit by a car.

 

So the three Duke guys weren't rapists, but one was a thug.

The team, meanwhile, was rife with thuggery, as confirmed by the Raleigh N-O report about their arrest record.

The sympathy competition? Maybe it's a push. Nobody knows.

 

Good point, Double E.

If these guys were all choir boys and some escort claimed she was raped, I doubt the entire Duke community would rush to judge them guilty so quickly.

They had their own baggage to get over. And it wasn't just the New York Times and Washington Post ripping these guys. Their own people were the first to believe it.

 

No, their own people were afraid of the same kind of backlash the race hustlers in this country have produced in the Don Imus situation, as was the prosecutor and the self-important talking heads on television. They were all afraid to call this sham what it was and they are all apparently afraid to take on Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson crowd because they let those two idiots get away with whatever they want to say and whatever accusations they want to throw out.

And if these kids all had ten triple-homicides on their records, it wouldn't change the fact that they didn't rape that girl and now they've been branded as rapists for life.

 

*shakes head*

When this happens to you or someone close to you, you'll understand perfectly, Oz.

I once thought like you, too. Believe me.

 

That's a fair point, FB.

 

Maybe, but until then ...

 

If it helps, it wasn't me. It was a friend. A great guy.

Power breeds abuse of power. The way the laws are set up right now, if you get a Nifong or someone who 'suggests' something happened when it didn't (and, trust me, I've had female friends that were raped, I'm not discounting the reality of the crime at all), as a guy, you are in a very bad spot, regardless of the accuracy of the charge.

Ask the Duke guys.

That's all I'm saying. You have to be very, very careful as a guy who values his reputation these days.

I spent months helping my friend restore his good name. It sucked ass. This type of thing happens every day, just as legitimate crimes against women happen every day.

Which is why the Duke accuser is such garbage. Same with Nifong. Both genders lose.

 

I would think that both men and women, with proper judgment, would somehow recognize and be coherent of potentially dangerous situations that would sully his or her reputation. And with that reasoning, somehow disengage themselves from those situations.

Unless most people just lack that reasoning all together. And don't give me the alcohol/drugs/pheromones/semantics crap, either, as a defense. There's something called a gut instinct and it's wise for people to follow it.

(Rok, I would think your friend Kobe there would be the first to agree with me on this.)

 

You bring up some good points, CG.

Let me finish my deluxe dinner of Reece's Pieces, pretzels, and protein powder and get back to you in a bit, ok?

 

Here's another thing for you to chew on with that gourmet meal. Like a woman's word against a man, it's also pretty easy for men to slander women in some seemingly harmless situations, i.e. workplace or uneventful date. It's a knife that can cut both ways.