Reply #74: I probably didn't follow it as closely as you did [View All]

[RZM]

But that doesn't mean I'm wrong nor does it mean that you're right.

I don't think that she told the truth about what happened that evening. I don't think she was sexually assaulted by any Duke lacrosse players.

Were some of them behaving like assholes? Probably. Would I like them all if I got to know them? Perhaps not. But I don't think they committed rape.

I think what's drove Magnum's defenders both then and now is a desire for the events of that evening to neatly correspond with how they believe the world works. If you believe that men oppress women, whites oppress blacks, the rich oppress the poor, and the many oppress the few, then I can see the temptation to draw certain conclusions in this situation.

The problem is that those are trends . . . they are not iron-clad rules that manifest themselves in every possible circumstance.