GrizPony said:
statler & waldorf said:
ALPHAGRIZ1 said:
Why is this on a football board?
I've asked that question before, and the answer was:
Come on, mods! Take time out of your work day to babysit people who can't read!
*goes back to work*
Maybe by tomorrow...
Do you really think her representation of JJ has nothing to do with Griz football? I bet some people do. Just stay away from the thread if it bothers you.
Just like the book "Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case," [Stuart Taylor, KC Johnson], is significant in terms of political correctness, extremist academic politics, and "sports" to collegiate athletics and the view of it, we certainly had our own rush to judgment here in little old Missoula. "JJ" was the ideal target in the minds of a select group -- white, the popular football quarterback, religious.
As the
New York Times, a newspaper pushing a "view" of the case just as the
Missoulian was pushing a view, phrased in it in hyping the Duke case: "Whether the woman was in fact raped is the question at the center of a case that has become a national cause célèbre, yet another painful chapter in the tangled American opera of race, sex and privilege."
Indeed, the
New York Times worked hard to overcome weaknesses that were becoming transparent in that case, claiming that "by disclosing pieces of evidence favorable to the defendants, the defense has created an image of a case heading for the rocks. But an examination of the entire 1,850 pages of evidence gathered by the prosecution in the four months after the accusation yields a more ambiguous picture. It shows that while there are big weaknesses in Mr. Nifong’s case, there is also a body of evidence to support his decision to take the matter to a jury." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/us/25duke.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The similarity between the two cases isn't accidental, even to the firing of coaches. Lives were ruined.
"The Duke Lacrosse Player Still Outrunning His Past."
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/03/duke-lacrosse-rape-scandal-ryan-mcfadyen
"Ex-Duke Lacrosse Coach Rebuilds Shattered Career"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/sports/ex-duke-lacrosse-coach-rebuilds-shattered-career.html
Kirsten Pabst happened to play the unusual role of someone who had unimpeachable credentials in sexual assault prosecutions, and relying on her experience and judgment, took on the politically-explosive position of defense attorney. A brave act in this town.
As she noted later, the firestorm of approbation she received for her "politically-incorrect" position was a shock to her, but probably not so much to many of us who have seen "justice" and notions of it increasingly turned to radical purposes. JJ was supposed to represent exactly those symbolic cultural attributes that "need to be destroyed," according to some of the proponents of modern "social justice" theory. Guilt or innocence was irrelevant to the specific political need for a specific outcome. Royce Engstrom and the
Missoulian bought into that need.
That Kirsten Pabst won that election is suggestive that the politically-correct crowd remains a minority in Missoula, a vindication of her courage in a difficult case that certainly ranks as one of UM Football's most difficult moments.