Comment by wredcoll
5 days ago
> Meanwhile, whatever meager resistence was faced by that group seems to have come from economists, natural scientist or legal scholars.
> I wouldn't blame people for refusing to study in a humanities department where they can't tell right from wrong.
Man, if you have to make stuff up to try to convince people... you might not be on the right side here.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. I have to admit, I mostly wrote my comment based on my recollections and it's a case 20 years ago I barely paid attention to until after the bizzaire conclusion. But looking trough Wikipedia's articles on the case[1] it doesn't seem I'm that far from the truth.
I guess I should have limited my statement about resisting mob justice to the economists at that university as the other departments merely didn't sign on to the public letter of denunciation?
Its weird that Wikipedia doesn't give you a percentage of signatories of the letter of 88 from the philosophy department, but several of the notable signatories are philosophers.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Duke_lacros...
Edit: Just found some articles claiming that a chemistry professor by the name of Stephen Baldwin was the first to write to the university newspaper condemning the mob.