Letters to the Editor
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Please.
This is totally knee-jerk thinking and pack mentality! Just not by Duke's female laxers, though. But Kevin Sweeney.
By being upset with these girl who know the accused better than he, the author is saying that the men are guilty and that even suggesting otherwise is an insult to women everywhere.
Conjecture is all anyone has until the court decides over all the evidence. So how is Mr. Sweeney's stance on any higher ground than these girls? Well, unless he knows something the rest of us don't -- it isn't!
Each American has his -- or her -- own opinion on the case. Why would Sweeney rob these girls of theirs? Even IF their friends on the men's team are lowlife enough (and therefore certainly suspect!) to drink beer (gasp!) and hire strippers. I'm sure those are things Mr. Sweeney has never done.
I hate these type of stories in Salon. Let's please stick our necks outside the bubble and breathe some fresh air. It might help our brains. Otherwise we're just reversed-out images of the blowhards on the hard right.
Yeesh,
Free Speech Loving Liberal in SF