Why are people taking the Kaczynski-esque racist tirades of some dumbass pollack seriously?

"There's a social hierarchy at Duke, and they're at the top," explains O'Sullivan. "They must have such a feeling of power."

Her friend Katie Brehm, also a sophomore, chimes in, "But we give them that power. Why do we look up to them?"

"Because they're hot!" says Julia Blessing, a sophomore from Ann Arbor, Mich. "And they have, like, the best parties."

BASICALLY:

10: Women worship jocks

20: Jocks gain power

30: Jocks abuse women

40: GOTO 10

Anyone surprised that MIT does not have these problems?

I would like to tell these guys that 98% of American men think that lacrosse is about like girls' field hockey. Where do they get off, acting like football players? They need to learn some humility, and I would have thought playing a third-rate sport like lacrosse would teach you that.

To the ffish Duke grad student:

Dont point out UNC-CH being somehow less of a minority friendly school when the difference in percentage is only 2% higher for African American students at Duke. If you want to play the % game then UNC has about 8% more non-white students than Duke.

Oh and the other little detail, UNC has 20,000 more students than Duke does. So even if the percentages are so close together, the fact is UNC allows substantially more minorities a quality education for 1/10th the price. And on top of that, NC Central is part of the UNC system. So dont compare apples and oranges.

That is like a B-grade backup school for the money kids

DURHAM, NC—Mere weeks after members of their university's lacrosse team were accused of sexually assaulting exotic dancers, ranking Duke polo and equestrian team members are downplaying rumors that they repeatedly engaged in acts of exotic sexual misconduct during the infamously out-of-control parties held at the team's off-campus barn.

"We've done nothing wrong, veterinarians will find no evidence—DNA or otherwise—showing that horses have been assaulted, and of course no charges have been filed," said senior Nat Hennerty, captain of Duke's equestrian squad and a two-time Most Valuable Rider, in a prepared statement to the press Tuesday. "I urge the media, the alumni, and the people of the community to remember that we at Duke are an elite university and disregard any obvious hearsay."

"Especially anything regarding suspicious bruises or abrasions suffered by the men of the team, allegations that certain horses have not been cantering normally as of late, or photos supposedly showing Duke student-athletes wearing nothing but English riding boots and engaged in sexual congress with tranquilized horses while whipping them with riding crops," Hennerty added.

While no formal accusations have been made, students claim the outrageous behavior of Duke's elite equestrian squad has become campus legend.

"I've never been to one of their parties, but everyone at Duke has heard the rumors," said a sophomore who spoke on condition of anonymity, saying she wished to protect herself from possible retaliation by the "privileged elites" who make up Duke's top-tier riding clubs. "Everyone's drinking, the lights in the stable go down, someone gets some saddle soap and a curry-comb…. pretty soon everyone's bareback, they're playing 'strip dressage,' strange lathered-up fillies are prancing around… It's only a matter of time before someone becomes Catherine the Great."

Although no Duke equestrian sports team has ever come under official scrutiny, an informal examination of team medical records shows that Duke riders are four times more likely to suffer unusual injuries, such as broken bones from startled horses stepping back onto riders' feet, deep horse bites in or around the groin area, or massive internal trauma along with explosive perforation of the colon. Duke teams also lead the nation, and organized horsemanship in general, in the sudden destruction of large livestock for unrecorded or sketchily documented reasons.

Despite the rumors and mounting evidence of mount abuse, few in the university believe that the team will be subjected to the possible disgrace of a joint university/SPCA investigation.

"These guys were brought up to believe that they can have any horse or woman they want, and that's unconscionable—but a formal investigation would tear this campus apart," history professor Woodrow Peterson said. "After all, the Duke University community barely tolerated the systematic sexual abuse of two black women at the hands of its students. If word got out that valuable horses had been treated that way, this place would explode."

Anonymous,

I understand the conversational leverage that the term "racist" represents, though I'm not sure I'd grant it the power you seem to. It fits our American mold of dumbing everything down into childish dichotomies: as though one mightn't harbor beliefs with racist elements without being a cross-burning Klan member.

"It is just one example of the vast social power that blacks now weild in our society... Black power as it exists today is a gift from white society...Affirmative action, welfare payments, and PC laguage policing are all atempts by white society to correct the imbalance of power."

Again, I must question the skew of a perspective that would lead to taking ONE element from a story to go off at length on the black victimization industry (and my question remains whether the black victimization choir made the perpetrators hurl racial epithets).

This same skewed perspective takes undue alarm at the "vast social power" wielded by blacks, and posits black power as a "gift" from white society: an odd term to use, if you really consider it. I can only submit that I would also consider whatever social and cultural power blacks "wield" (an equally unnerving term, if considered) as also resulting from their own demands for justice and enormous CONTRIBUTIONS to society as regular working citizens, as athletes, and most visibly, in the creative arts over several generations, in the face of much oppression and ignorance.

I do not dispute that abuses of welfare, aff am, or speech codes occur, on either side of any color line.

My handle is a pseudonym. Moi je m'appelle Auntie Climacus. Plenty of y'all reckon the agility of my arguments and the impact of my rhetoric not without which in the sbsence of which only perhaps in an alternate universe the slovenly drivel of rich white boyz might not have dignified my claims. As a matter of reinforcing the false distinctions about blood heritage and race and in response to leveraging like you did with your Vaffanculo dirty popish WOP accusations at me as a "Polock" - no Pole here (just a jibe at the men's basketball coach) I'm half Irish and half German and I bet I can recite the Nicean Creed twenty times faster than your sister. My namesakes on the Eire side moved South from NYC after the depression and along the maternal line from Appalachin coalmines - and the Germans bearing my name didn't immigrate from Germany but from Argentina one generation ago. So politically instead of racially if that's what you're trying to establish, you should come pay me a visit in the hinterlands, my Nazi body mass index is only one coefficient in the polynomial of my character, and it would be my great pleasure to bury your trachea in your spinal column.