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I still don't know who Bill Donohue is. Here is the post from Amanda which I know some people had problems with. It has since been whitewashed from Amanda's blog by her. The post was entitled "Stuck in the airport....again"
In the meantime, I’ve been sort of casually listening to CNN blaring throughout the waiting area and good fucking god is that channel pure evil. For awhile, I had to listen to how the poor dear lacrosse players at Duke are being persecuted just because they held someone down and fucked her against her will—not rape, of course, because the charges have been thrown out.
Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it?
So unfair.
Yes, how dare a rape victim act confused and bewildered like she was raped or something.
Natalia, do you know the details of the case? If so, why do you think a women enthusiastically jumped into a sexual situation with men making slavery jokes at her? Furthermore, what is your theory on why she supposedly looooooved having sex with guys holding her facedown on the bathroom floor? There’s no “if” they behaved in a disrespectful manner. We have conclusive evidence that happened.
This is about race and class and gender in every way, and there’s basically no way this woman was going to see justice. In her part of the country, both women and black people are seen as subhuman objects to be used and abused by white men.
Yeah, I know, Alon. Which is why I’m frustrated that people are pretending ‘can’t identify which one raped her” somehow equals ‘wasn’t raped’. I had some initial confusion about exactly who was assaulting me when I was assaulted, but that doesn’t mean that his hands weren’t actually where they were.
Plus, the media is acting like these men are exonerated!
Ms. Marcotte's former employee is from "her part of the country" as Ms. Marcotte terms it. Ms. Marcotte's post is based on some of the most offensive and indefensible assumptions capable of any human. Ms. Marcotte's post is sexist and racist. Every element of her post seems to be willfully ignorant of most of the facts surrounding the case. Ms. Marcotte lacks even the moral fortitude to stand by her statements and leave it on her site. According to her, what has happened in recent weeks is the fault of everyone but herself. As Marcotte continues to make mistakes throughout her life, I am curious to see who will be at fault the next time and the next time and the next time. If you keep listening to Ms. Marcotte, I suspect she won't be claiming it.
