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...says he was victim of assault,” and the first sentence reads: “An openly gay undergraduate was allegedly assaulted as he walked on Bow Street Friday night by a man yelling homophobic epithets, in what the victim is calling a hate crime?? (my emphasis). By the first full stop, your reader has already been told four times that the student claims, alleges, etc., that he was a victim, but it has not yet been made clear that he was a victim of an assault. I find this highly offensive...
Your article gives the impression that incident was not really an assault, but that this oh-so-sensitive “openly gay” person just thinks it was an assault. I am aware that the term “hate crime?? is a legal term, but why not write that the incident is likely to have been a hate crime, or that it yet has to be decided whether it was a hate crime, rather than reducing the hateful nature of the assault to the assaulted student’s singular perception...
Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II said the incident was “an awful crime?? and served as a “reminder that there’s a lot of work to be done...
...push back? Why did you have anything to drink? When someone is robbed, or is the victim of another violent crime, our first thoughts are not, “Are they for real?” How is it that only for the most prevalent, violent crime??sexual violence—that we create these undue burdens for survivors to prove that their accusation is legitimate, or that they were not at fault for their assault? A community that is silent, and that does not take a stand to support survivors, is one that allows these incredible emotional...
...method of social control—the mass incarceration society. The new law and order regime of Nixon and Reagan sought to incite racial fears exacerbated by these rebellions and associate blacks with crime. Winning elections by being tough on Negroes—or “crime??—became such good politics that even Bill Clinton, friend of colored folks, made it Democratic strategy in his 1992 victory. This new resolution to the “problem” of poor blacks has been effective yet because it makes poor blacks invisible and couches...