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MKH really nails the whole situation:

Betsy says, if charges are dropped, the refrain will be “fake but accurate” once again. Sure, the lacrosse players didn’t actually rape anyone, but the storyline revealed a larger truth about racism at Duke. Or, something like that.

She’s right, of course. Finnerty and Seligmann will only be truly forgiven in Durham if they hop into the white guilt drum circle for aggressive self-flagellation with the rest of the city. They’ll be asked not to sue anyone and to, instead, join in the healing process, which consists of talking ad nauseum about the “larger truths” their non-crime revealed– none of which, by the way, will have anything to do with the fact that Durham is a little race-obsessed P.C. haven where the white and privileged and innocent were sold out instantly just for the community feelgood effect.

They’ll be asked to look in the mirror and say, “Sure, you didn’t rape that woman, and were dragged through the mud by everyone in town, but let’s think about what the idea of your raping a black woman told us about race and gender in Durham.”

Indeed, because what MKH is pointing out is this PC postmodernist mindlessness that permeates the minds of these identity politics obsessed liberals. The facts aren’t really important; the “deeper truth” is important, and the “deeper truth” is that fantasy these leftists have cooked up in their heads. “We’re all victims! Oppressed! Disenfranchised! Disempowered! Marginalized! Oppressed, I tell you, OPPRESSED!”

But enough with the snarking. The Group of 88 probably isn’t embarrassed, no more than Sharpton was embarrassed when Brawley turned out to be yet one more “hate crime victim” who faked the whole thing. They’re not embarrassed because of the “deeper truth” in the situation — or as the Group of 88 would say, the “narrative.”