Leftists Attack 'Racist' Duke University Political Scientist Jerry Hough!

"Microagressions = micro-nooses."

Man, it's getting hard out there for a prog --- an "old, white" prog who voted for Barack!

At the Charlotte Observer, "Duke professor responds to criticism about his comments on African Americans":

In online comments, Duke professor #JerryHough negatively compared black people to Asians. http://t.co/XMgAqcvjnd pic.twitter.com/gFzT528xhV

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) May 18, 2015

Stop trying to pit Asians against African-Americans, you racist, idiotic, old white man. We're not taking the bait.http://t.co/zlMe8dX5Eg

— J. Mijin Cha (@jmijincha) May 18, 2015

A Duke University professor faced sharp criticism for online comments he made on The New York Times website, where he compared “the blacks” and “the Asians,” writing that Asians “didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.”

In a six-paragraph comment on the Times website, political science professor Jerry Hough wrote: “The blacks get awful editorials like this that tell them to feel sorry for themselves.”

Hough did not agree to be interviewed, but late Friday he said in an email that his comments were misunderstood. He had been prompted to write about a May 9 editorial in the New York Times on the Baltimore riots and underlying factors of segregation and poverty. He said the editorial should have called for the mayor of Baltimore to resign, instead of blaming white racism.

“I don’t know if you will find anyone to agree with me,” he said in an email to The News & Observer. “Anyone who says anything is a racist and ignorant as I was called by a colleague. The question is whether you want to get involved in the harassment and few do. I am 80 and figure I can speak the truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not.”

In his New York Times comment, Hough praised Asians. “Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration,” his online comment said. “Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existent because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.”

The comment concluded: “It was appropriate that a Chinese design won the competition for the Martin Luther King state (sic). King helped them overcome. The blacks followed Malcolm X.”

Hough was swiftly blasted on Twitter and other social media sites. Duke officials decried the professor’s comments while defending his right to make them.

Mark Anthony Neal, a Duke professor of African and African American Studies, responded on his blog by pasting a screen shot of the comment, with this: “In the words of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, microagressions = micro-nooses--Mark Anthony Neal.” Bonilla-Silva is a Duke sociology professor.

In an email, Hough said he was a disciple of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950s and voted for President Barack Obama. He pointed out that the first book he assigned to students in 1961 was “Black Like Me.” He further stated that one of the best students he ever taught was African American, and he had encouraged her to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship, but she pursued a career in athletics.

He said he’s working on a book on the 1960s social revolutions and that “I am very disappointed in the lack of progress” for African Americans.

“The point I was raising was why the Asians who were oppressed did so well and are integrating so well, and the blacks are not doing as well,” his email said. “The comments have convinced me to write a book which will add the Asians to all the research I did on blacks.”

He also admitted his comment in the New York Times was not expressed as well as he had intended: “There were typos in my outrage towards [the editorial] and I could have been more careful (though hard in the space limits).”

Of course, the university has "condemned" the professor's "insensitivity."

Black Leftist Saida Grundy, Boston University Sociology Professor, Attacks White Rape Victim in Vicious Facebook Posts

Oh boy this is ugly.

Pretty typical for leftists though. You can see why these people are seen as toxic hulks of radioactivity to be avoided at all costs.

At iOWNTHEWORLD Report, "“Self-important and condescending academics are nothing unusual, but mocking a traumatized rape victim crosses a line”." Following the links takes us to Fox News, "Boston University prof in racist tweet flap accused of trolling white rape victim."

Also at London's Daily Mail, "'Go cry somewhere': Hateful words of black Boston University professor to a white rape survivor written on Facebook three months before she claimed white men are 'THE problem for America's colleges'."

"Hateful words" alright.

The left is full of hate. Hate, hate, hate. Hate all the time. Ghouls.




RELATED: At College Insurrection, "Newly Hired Boston University Prof Bashes Whites and Men on Twitter," and "Boston University Responds to Prof’s Racist Tweets Aimed at White Men."

'Do not be deceived. People who are willing to lie about rape will lie about anything...'

From Robert Stacy McCain, "Why Facts Matter."

What does 'feminist' even mean at this point?

From Katherine Timpf, at National Review.

The Left is now linking fracking with feminism. True story: http://t.co/L2FoW7eBxH pic.twitter.com/9eNEi3mEON

— National Review (@NRO) April 9, 2015

University of Virginia Fraternity Phi Kappa Psi to Sue Rolling Stone

Following up from earlier, "UVA's Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity Will Slap Rolling Stone With 'all available legal action...'"

Law Professor Jonathan Turley is interviewed at this segment from CBS This Morning:

Few, If Any, Consequences for Those Perpetuating Rape Hoaxes

Yeah, and no consequences especially for the "rape culture" mastermind, Professor Caroline Heldman.

See Ashe Schow, at the Washington Examiner, "Few, if any, consequences for those involved in perpetuating rape hoaxes."

The Left Sticks to Narrative 'Journalism'

From Naomi Schaefer Riley, at the New York Post, "Facts matter: Left sticks to ‘narratives,’ evidence be damned":

The verdict’s in on Rolling Stone. According to no less an authority than the Columbia Journalism Review, the magazine’s last year story of a University of Virginia gang rape was a “journalistic failure [that] encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking.”

But as with many other stories that don’t fit into the right narrative, the media will continue to draw the wrong lessons.
As an AP article noted, “Despite its flaws, the article heightened scrutiny of campus sexual assaults amid a campaign by President Barack Obama.”

Despite its flaws? You mean despite the fact that as far as anyone can tell, the story was made up out of whole cloth?

Even once the police investigated the claims of the alleged victim, The New York Times reported: “Some saw a more complex picture, saying that the uproar over the story and the steps that the university had taken since in an effort to change its culture had, in the end, raised awareness and probably done the school, and the nation, some good.”

How has the university benefited from the fact that a fraternity has been falsely accused of a horrific crime? And how has the nation benefited from the false but now widespread belief that violent rape, even gang rape, is raging on US campuses?

Wouldn’t it have done more good for people to know that young women are statistically less likely to be attacked on a campus than off of one?

But who cares about the facts as long as awareness has been raised? Take the case of Ellen Pao, who filed suit against her former employer, venture-capital group Kleiner Perkins, for gender ­discrimination...

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Entertainment Weekly Retracts Claim of 'Misogynistic, Racist' Hugo Awards Voting Campaign

Man, does anyone get journalism right anymore?

At Twitchy.

And see AoSHQ, "The Leftwing Media Tries Covering the 'Sad Puppies' Affair."

Rolling Stone Can't Even Apologize Right

No, the magazine has pretty much botched everything about this clusterf-k of a story.

From Megan McArdle, at Bloomberg:

Rolling Stone got taken by a fabulist.

Sunday night, the Columbia Journalism Review released its exhaustive report on what went wrong with the magazine's blockbuster story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity that turned out to be substantially false. And we learned what Rolling Stone plans to do to prevent such mistakes in the future, which is to say basically nothing.

No one is getting fired. Jann Wenner, the magazine's owner, expects that Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the author of the article in question, will continue to write for them. Her apology, also released last night, says in part: "I allowed my concern for Jackie’s well-being, my fear of re-traumatizing her, and my confidence in her credibility to take the place of more questioning and more facts. These are mistakes I will not make again." So everyone is basically saying the same thing: Their compassion for rape victims allowed them to be taken by a liar. Big oops, won't do that again! Nothing to see here, so can we all move along?

It's not that this version is wrong -- I think at this point we can stop dancing around the fact that "Jackie" is a fabulist. The Rolling Stone report adds some detail to this, including the suggestion that the two additional alleged victims of gang rapes at Phi Kappa Psi were also creations of Jackie's imagination. But dealing with fabulists isn't some kind of rare hazard that journalists can't be expected to anticipate. People lie to journalists all the time, for fun and profit. They tell self-serving lies designed to get them out of trouble, or self-aggrandizing lies designed to puff themselves up. They tell lies of kindness to shield others from shame or worse, and lies designed to hurt people they hate. They also tell bizarre lies about things that bring them no benefit at all, for reasons that a psychologist might be able to explain but I cannot. And unfortunately, reporters get taken.

But while it is not wrong, it is also not enough. Usually, when a reporter gets taken, you will hear some combination of the following...

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UVA's Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity Will Slap Rolling Stone With 'all available legal action...'

Wholly unsurprising, although richly deserved retribution.

At Politico, "UVA fraternity to sue Rolling Stone."

And at LAT, "Columbia details Rolling Stone failure; fraternity vows legal action."

Heads Won't Roll in Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Hoax Article Retraction

Robert Stacy McCain had the heads up this morning, "Columbia Review of Rolling Stone’s UVA Rape Hoax Story to Be Released Tonight."

And here's the retraction, at Rolling Stone, "'A Rape on Campus' - What Went Wrong."

More, at the New York Times, "In Report on Rolling Stone, a Case Study in Failed Journalism," and "Rolling Stone Article on Rape at University of Virginia Failed All Basics, Report Says."

Plus, "Statement From Writer of Rolling Stone Rape Article, Sabrina Erdely."



From Ashe Schow as well, "Author of Rolling Stone rape article apologizes", and "16 things we learned from the review of the Rolling Stone gang-rape story."

See also the responses at Memeorandum.

And the most mind-boggling part, at FishbowlNY, "No Firings at Rolling Stone for Botched UVA Rape Story." And Twitchy, "After brutal report on multiple failures at Rolling Stone, absolutely no one gets fired over retracted UVA rape story."

Still more, "You will not freaking believe the one group that Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Erdely DID NOT apologize to."

Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein Accused of Molesting Italian Model Ambra Battilana

Democrat values.

At London's Daily Mail, "Model who says Harvey Weinstein groped her in his NYC office also accused her wealthy 70-year-old former lover of rape in Italy four years ago."

Eloi Vasquez, UC Berkeley Soccer Player Killed on I-10, Left USC Frat Party 'Drunk and Confused'

He was hit by a car running across the freeway.

If universities would deal with the underage alcohol crisis (rather than the manufactured rape crisis) we'd be truly on the way to saving an untold number of lives.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Missing UC Berkeley soccer player was struck, killed on 10 Freeway."

And at London's Daily Mail, "UC Berkeley soccer star who went missing after leaving frat party 'drunk and confused' was actually KILLED by a car two days ago."

Today we lost a beloved member of the #CalFamily, Eloi Vasquez. We send thoughts & prayers to his family & friends. pic.twitter.com/Pq0VAEanJU

— Cal Bears (@CalAthletics) March 30, 2015

Ellen Pao Loses Historic Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Kleiner Perkins

I've been seeing articles about this case for weeks.

For example, at LAT last week, "Win or lose, discrimination suit is having an effect on Silicon Valley."

Well, she lost.

At the San Francisco Chronicle, "Kleiner Perkins prevails in Ellen Pao sex-bias case":

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers did not discriminate against former junior partner Ellen Pao for her gender, nor fire her because she filed a high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit against the firm, a jury found on Friday.

A six-man, six-woman San Francisco Superior Court jury sided in favor of Kleiner Perkins on all claims after more than two days of deliberation and more than four weeks of testimony that was closely watched by Silicon Valley and around the country as tensions over the lack of diversity in the technology industry have swelled.

The verdict was a major victory for Kleiner Perkins, for which the trial had revealed an at times unflattering portrait of a firm that had fallen from its glory days as an early investor in companies such as Google and Amazon.

Pao filed suit against Kleiner Perkins in 2012 for $16 million in damages for gender discrimination and retaliation, plus unspecified punitive damages. She alleged that Kleiner Perkins had promoted male partners over equally qualified women at the firm, including herself, and then retaliated against her for raising concerns about the firm’s gender dynamics by failing to promote her and finally firing her. Pao, now interim CEO of the message board site Reddit, was fired after seven years at the firm following her 2012 lawsuit...

Keep reading.

Police Can't Corroborate Rape Allegations at University of Virginia

At CBS Evening News, "Police unable to corroborate U.Va rape allegations."

Also at CNN, "Police say investigators found no 'substantive basis' to support a University of Virginia female student's story that she was raped."

And from Ashe Schow, at the Washington Examiner, "Police investigating UVA rape story emphasize importance of police involvement."

Could Leftist Disgust with Campus Brownshirts Be Reaching Critical Mass?

From Steven Hayward, at Power Line:

You know campus radicalism—the kind that openly oppresses in the name of ending oppression—is going too far when even The Nation magazine takes notice. Nation writer Michelle Goldberg reports about the case of Northwestern University feminist film professor Laura Kipnes, who wrote an essay last month in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe.” It was a long and rambling piece that covered a lot of territory, but contained here and there several nuggets of good sense...

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You'll laugh. Via Memeorandum.

14 STUDENTS ACCUSED IN VENICE HIGH SCHOOL SEXUAL ASSAULTS (VIDEO)

Horrible story.

At ABC-7 News Los Angeles:

#LAPD Update: 10th Venice HS Subject Arrested for Sex Crimes after turning himself in @LAPDPacific @LASchoolPolice http://t.co/YhSRKub8EQ

— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) March 14, 2015

VENICE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Fourteen students are accused in the sexual assaults of two underage girls at Venice High School.

The investigation began on Tuesday when police were notified by school administrators regarding a possible sexual assault.

Police located two victims, both students at Venice High School under the age of 17. The victims were subjected to a series of sexual assaults both on and off campus.

"They were able to identify 14 subjects that we believe are responsible for these sexual assaults and unlawful sex acts," said LAPD Cmdr. Andy Smith during a news conference.

The alleged incidents occurred between December 2013 to March 2015. Smith said some of the sexual acts were forced, and others were consensual with individuals who were too young to give consent.

Eight students were arrested at the school on Friday morning, and one student was arrested off campus. A 10th person surrendered to authorities and was also arrested.

Still more.

Michigan Couple Sentenced to Life in Prison for Raping Baby: 'To a person, this is the worst, one of the worst [child sex cases] they’ve had to work...'

Progressive values.

At the Other McCain, "Life Sentences for Michigan Couple Who Raped 1-Year-Old Girl on Video":

Human life is cheapened [in] a nation that accepts more than 1 million abortions a year as “a woman’s right to choose.”

If it is not wrong to kill an unborn baby, is anything wrong?

The Horrible -- HORRIBLE! -- Abuse Online Feminists Endure to the Point of Desperation, Throwing It All Away

Oh brother. It's hard out there for a lesbian feminist social justice warrior.

See far-left radical abortionist Michelle Goldberg, at the Washington Post, "Feminist writers are so besieged by online abuse that some have begun to retire."

It's the End of Sex as We Know It

From Mark Hemingway, at the Federalist.

I great piece.