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Princeton Student Admits to Staging Attack, Police Say

Submitted by dognose, Dec 18, 2007 22:35

As this incident seems to be a reprise of a hoax Nava perpetrated in high school, I would say that the only issue here is the emotional and mental health of this one sad person, rather than the integrity of conservative thought or politics. If the Sun would like to point out that conservative thought in academe is hard to come by, and widely looked down upon when expressed, the case can be strongly made quite apart from dramatic incidents, genuine or staged. The culture at elite institutions sounds like this: students not having sex by age 20 are losers; corporations are inherently evil; there is nothing tragic or morally dangerous about ending the life of a fetus; white Americans are either racists or at least the happy beneficiaries of the legacy of racism; people of color are owed preferential treatment as compensation for racism; multiculturalism means condeming white people, the West, and especially the US; every exercise of American military power since World War II has been immoral; the root cause of Arab viciousness towards Israel is mighty Israel's abuse of powerless Arabs; and of course, George Bush is a liar and a dim wit. That, ladies and gentlemen, is some of the standard cant among most students and many faculty on Ivy League campuses today.

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As this incident seems to be a reprise of a hoax Nava perpetrated in high school, I would say that...	dognose	Dec 18, 2007 22:35
No matter how much you try to spin this to blame liberal the facts remains Nava is a conservative and... [MORE]	Lee	Dec 19, 2007 03:37
I don't see all (or any!) of the anti-"librul" commenters from the original story here doing the moral thing and... [MORE]	Katie	Dec 18, 2007 19:35
As I read the article in yesterday's print edition, I wondered why no-one else was reporting on it; later, I... [MORE]	myra	Dec 18, 2007 17:21
Your paper was the only one apparently taken in by this hoax. Even the student newspaper reported it with measured... [MORE]	Gelston	Dec 17, 2007 21:13
This is a case of a conservative person using a well-known liberal strategy of staging an attack to call attention... [MORE]	Edit	Dec 17, 2007 21:11
First, I don't have the energy to point out once again, how "but Clinton did worse!!!" is not a valid... [MORE]	J.	Dec 18, 2007 17:50
The Anscombe Society is the society Opus Dei establishes on Ivy League campuses . Prof. Robert George is a member... [MORE]	joe	Dec 17, 2007 20:39
When you have no argument, the conservative approach seems to be lie and try make others look bad. Where could... [MORE]	chaz	Dec 17, 2007 18:29
Campus Repuglican groups have been the breeding ground of much that is wrong with America from Ehrlichman & Segretti to... [MORE]	Steve	Dec 17, 2007 17:15
Campus Democrat groups have been the breeding ground for much of what is wrong with America from Webster Hubble &... [MORE]	GT	Dec 17, 2007 18:36
Send Nava home for Christmas break, and tell him not to come back for 2nd semester! [MORE]	Cachet	Dec 18, 2007 02:55
Really??!? Awesome!!! Now...can you take a dim view on the child molesters? The treasonous and traitors? And, are you sure on the... [MORE]	J.	Dec 18, 2007 17:41
Thank you for posting this correction. I hope it will receive at least as prominent placement in your print edition... [MORE]	Gary Reilly	Dec 17, 2007 16:05