The PC playpens of the left

NY Post Editorial:

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But what about the other members of the lynch mob?

Like the Durham City Council, whose members charged that the Duke lacrosse team "has been a ticking time bomb that has not been dismantled." Or the area residents who picketed with "wanted" posters of all 46 team members and signs that read, "Don't be a fan of rapists."

And what's to be done about the most outrageous perpetrators of all?

Namely Duke's Gang of 88 - the faculty members (more than 10 percent of the entire staff) who signed a contemptible public statement that not only assumed the players' guilt but hailed the "collective noise" that led Nifong to file his dubious legal charges?

"What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?" asked their manifesto, citing the purported attack as proof of the "racism, sexism, sexual violence and homophobia" on Duke's campus.

Even after the charges had been proven false, many of the signers remained unapologetic - insisting "the legal process will not resolve" the continuing problem of all those "isms" on campus.

Or the university's president, Richard Brodhead - who not only refused to stand by his own students, but canceled the lacrosse season, suspended the accused players and pressured the team's coach (a 16-year veteran) to resign?

Meanwhile, the rest of the Duke faculty - save for 17 courageous members of the economics department, who publicly disavowed the Gang of 88 - remained silent, afraid to speak out.

Yesterday, the university reached a financial settlement with the three falsely accused players, avoiding a lawsuit.

But no one has taken steps to remedy the cowardly school leadership that caved to the pressure of a politically radical faculty demanding that the legal rights of the accused be trampled on.

Sadly, what happened at Duke is typical of American academia these days.

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The Editorial goes on to site similar misconduct at Columbia. What is missing is not just an apology from the Gang of 88, but an admission that they were wrong. But, they are too blind to see where political correctness has taken them. To the morally blind, an injustice to a non protected group is OK.