Re: Yeah right
by
Melvyl
04/14/2008, 10:12 AM
You do run on, and you make a lot of noise when criticized. So touchy.
First of all, though the topic you insisted on was the already-old matter of the Duke Lacrosse Players (the Scottsboro Boys of white skin privilege) and its supposed link to the Bevel case, you continue to hang that assumtion on an armature of counterfactuals.
"It is demonstrably true that had Bevel been an innocent lacrosse player who happened to be white and had the so-called "victim" been a mentally unstable prostitute who happened to be black, then the media would have handled the case differently."
Demonstrably? How? "Demonstrably" is a pompous weasel word. Either you can demonstrate this elaborate counterfactual, or you can't. Since you can't, why claim you can? Because the rest of your argument is ALSO bullshit?
Oh yeah, what IF Bevel were white, and the world's oldest college lacrosse player, and his kids were mentally unstable prostitutes (oh, and BTW, "prostitute?" Do you have a LINK to justify that slander, or did you just make that one up?) who "just happened to be black" then would the media have handled the case differently?
Let me see now...seventy-some retired minister and civil rights veteran who is, by the way, white, returns to school at a privileged private university and joins the lacrosse team... after which he is accused of sexually assaulting his own underage children, who just happen to be black prostitutes, and mentally unstable... would the press cover that?
I'd say the National Enquirer would definitely give you front page.
To continue, after presenting nothing but bizarre counterfactuals, you claim that you have provided EVIDENCE. Bunky, counterfactuals are not evidence. They are rhetorical stunts; not even rational argument. To add sauce to this nonsense, you make repeated reference to "political correctness," whatever that means.
Then you call me William Jennings Bryan (in reference to what? The Scopes trial? ROTFLMAO!), tell me I'm deluded, make yet another bogus claim of having "made my case and proved it" and invite me to return to school. At Duke perhaps? And can I have a lacrosse scholarship?
Damn, this was fun.