John Locke Foundation Charlotte blogger Jeff Taylor has read Kathleen Parker’s latest column, “Nifong’s legacy, feminism’s shame,” and wonders if his local paper will run it:
The Uptown paper of record usually runs Kathleen Parker’s stuff. Sometimes I agree with her take, more often not. She penned one today, however, that’ll have a hard time making it past the gate-keepers down on Tryon for tomorrow.
Here’s the part of Parker’s column that might be problematical, in Taylor’s view:
It is tempting to convince oneself that Nifong’s banishment means that all is right in the Dukedom. Doubtless, many among Duke’s faculty and administration, as well as random race-baiters, campus feminists, various reporters, commentators and assorted armchair prosecutors would prefer that no one remember their roles in advancing the Nifong farce. …
But they shouldn’t get off so easily. All were participants in the scurrilous witch hunt that unfolded during the past year. All were congregants in the PC Church that sanctifies certain groups as unassailable victims (all minorities and females) and others as condemnable perps (all males, but especially descendants of history’s white oppressors).
I guess we’ll know tomorrow.
