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It came out a day or so ago<\/a>.\u00a0 The news that ex-Rutgers student Dharun Ravi was found guilty of hate crimes against Tyler Clementi, the young man who committed suicide last year.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 I admit I was not in the courtroom, and did not hear all of the evidence.\u00a0 It\u2019s entirely possible that some massive piece of evidence was produced that showed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Ravi deliberately did what he did out of malice against Climenti on the basis of Clementi being gay.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But as of now, I\u2019ve not seen it.\u00a0 As of now, the evidence seems to suggest that this was a college prank by a young man who, being a child of the post-modern west, bore no real grudge against homosexuals, or even Clementi over his sexual orientation.\u00a0 In fact, based on evidence that has been discussed in the media, there was plenty to suggest that there was little other than friction that can occur between college students tossed into close quarters; the kind of friction that has been going on since the beginning of college life. <\/p>\n

More than that, unless there is some huge piece of evidence we\u2019ve not heard from, the whole prank seemed to be nothing other than a living out of the\u00a0media dream of pulling some humiliating prank on someone you were having issues with.\u00a0 This was just Radar O\u2019Reilly slipping a microphone under Frank and Hot Lips while they were engaging in marital infidelity.\u00a0 This was American Pie<\/em>.\u00a0 This was Animal House<\/em>.\u00a0 This was humiliating humor the likes of which dominates the Comedy circuit in our society, and has for decades.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Unless there was some massive piece of evidence not yet revealed, this is what it looks like.\u00a0 And yet, he\u2019s found guilty of a hate crime.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 On what grounds?\u00a0 I\u2019m waiting to hear the jury unpack this, because to this little blogger, this has all the trappings of our post-modern society lurching ever forward in its quest for a post-liberal despotic tyranny.\u00a0 This was simply a warning, taking Ravi to the chopping block as a warning.\u00a0 Not a warning not to attack or hurt homosexuals.\u00a0 But a warning that you had better not do anything to a homosexual at all, even if you aren\u2019t doing it maliciously.\u00a0 Because if anything goes wrong, you will be skinned in a public display of post-modern justice.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Again, I could be wrong.\u00a0 There might be some reason, based on some evidence, that the obvious was discarded and the concept of hate crime rendered meaningless, or nothing other than an excuse for thought control and punishment of conscience and non-conformity.\u00a0 But unless I hear otherwise, I\u2019m going with the most obvious interpretation, especially given the forward march of censorship in the name of non-heterosexual normality. <\/p>\n

Oh, and by the way.\u00a0 The little to no play time that this decision has received in the MSM, suggests to me there\u2019s something disquieting about it all; something that the MSM doesn\u2019t want folks thinking about.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"