You know the Duke lacrosse case has jumped the shark when most posters on DemocraticUnderground say the accuser lied. Even better, they attack a person who posted saying that “something must have happened” and the “boys opened themselves up to this.” One commenter (apparently gay, according to his avatar) said:
So if you drink and mingle with strippers you’re automatically guilty?
Another (trendy IM-style spelling retained) said:
What u are saying sounds a lot like…”she was asking for it” by the way she dressed, etc…as some sort of explanation for being raped. When a woman is raped, it is just a sexist attempt to blame the victim. What you arre saying is that the guys asked for it by drinking and having a stripper at their party….u blame the victims of this fraud. It is the same mind set…and not right either way.
And this:
What happened is that the stripper lied. This is beyond any dispute, whatsoever.
Even if something happened, it doesn’t mean any kind of charges should be brought. Unless the something was a crime. The only one who seems to have committed a crime was the stripper.
UPDATE: After writing the above I stumbled on a Freeper post making the exact same point regarding the same DU thread. I swear, I didn’t see the Freeper post before writing mine.
