It Had An Unfortunate Gloating Tone

KC Johnson at Durham in Wonderland is discussing hate mail. Specifically hate mail recieved by some of the professors involved in the Duke Hoax.

The latest example of creatively interpreting what constitutes "harassing" e-mails comes from the newly elected chairwoman of the Academic Council, Paula ("No to Due Process") McClain. A Free Republic reader sent two emails to McClain. The first asked for comment about the end of the case; the second said that she had been "hoisted on the petard of Political Correctness, racial identity politics, gender determining feminism and what [the writer] coined as 'Tawana Brawley Syndrome'."

The reader continued, "Aside from the fact that petty tyrants like you have turned US college campuses into little ivy covered North Koreas, I suspect that you were seeking to appropriate PC bonus points and obtain instant moral authority by championing the cause of the "other" (marginalized black exotic dancer) against racist male chauvinist members of the privileged white elite. A case of cultural Marxist Class warfare that boomeranged. GOD how I love it so!!!!!"

I would not have sent the e-mail above. It had an unfortunate gloating tone.

Yeah KC. I loved it too!

Cross Posted at Power and Control and at The Astute Bloggers

posted by Simon on 05.05.07 at 08:50 AM





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So now they're defining 'hate e-mails', which no doubt in the mind of the profs receiving them constitute 'hate crimes', down to sarcasm?

If that rule were applied equally across the ideological spectrum, couldn't Pres. Bush throw just about every stand up comic, sinistral blogger, and many liberal arts prof into jail?

XWL   ·  May 5, 2007 01:41 PM

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