My latest TownHall column is up. In it I agree that the professors never flat-out said the accused lacrosse players were guilty (they provided just enough plausible deniability against that charge). Nevertheless, what they did say was sillier:


They just meant to say that all of you are guilty for making that racist gang rape possible. [C]onsider their other statements of drop-jawed hysteria: “illuminated in this moment’s extraordinary spotlight [is] what [students] live with every day”; “These students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young woman and to themselves”; “This is not a different experience for us here at Duke … We go to class with racist classmates, we go to the gym with people who are racists”; “students know that the disaster didn’t begin on March 13th.”


I also revisit the other recent rape and racism hoaxes at Duke to show that the Duke community really should’ve known better.