Racist graffiti found at DePaul: Univ. spokesperson cites conservative group for creating "politically charged" campus
I left out one detail that was not in the media reports. It was told to me by a couple of people very close the story. Since this was (and still is) a police matter, I didn't see any point having something I blogged about messing up a criminal investigation.
The jackal who used permanent marker to write the "N" word and swastikas also scrawled "DePaul Conservative Alliance" in the public areas of a DePaul dormitory.
Obviously this was a set up by some nut, or a cunning, yet cruel attempt to discredit the conservative group. I know most of the members of the DCA. They are not racists.
Nor were they ever suspected by the police in regards to the recent vandalism in that dorm.
Father Dennis Holtschneider, the President of DePaul is fully aware of all the details of the case. As are Denise Mattson and Robin Florzak of DePaul's public relations office.
Jon Cohen, a math professor at the Chicago school covers this incident and more in the American Thinker.
What has occurred has been another example of political correctness run amok at DePaul. A small group of students engaged in a relatively innocuous public protest of affirmative action and as a result they were investigated for a possible case of harassment, had their organization censured and penalized by the university, were tricked into being subjected to a two hour public bashing at the hands of several faculty members and in front of about a hundred jeering students, were publicly scolded for the bake sale by the university president in an email to every member of the DePaul community, were the victims of a crude attempt to falsely brand them as the perpetrators of a nasty incident of racist graffiti and when it they were cleared of this charge the school administration, knowing that this was a hoax, suggested to the media that their bake sale had contributed to the atmosphere that led to the graffiti.
You can't make this stuff up. Perhaps it is my mathematical training but it seems that one way to overcome political correctness is by a kind of proof by contradiction. You simply assume the usual politically correct assumptions of victimization and oppression and then see how it leads to a series of bizarre and cruel conclusions. The sane person then is forced to question the assumptions. At DePaul, thanks to the initiatives of some courageous and idealistic students we are making progress but we are not there yet.
Below is my January post on the DePaul Conservative Alliance's affirmative action bake sale:
There they go again: DePaul U clamps down on conservative free speech rights
And a February follow up:
DePaul's president responds to the "affirmative action bake sale"
For starters, the administration of DePaul needs to apologize to the DePaul Conservative Alliance.
The DePaul Conservative Alliance site is on the Marathon Pundit blogroll. Visit it!
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