This is the stuff that our kids learn when they are exposed to the foolishness in our universities, folks. A white student at Georgetown University was mugged, but he excused his attacker because he–the student–is white so that means he is obviously “guilty” of having that so-called white privilege and so, he deserved to be mugged.
Not long ago, Georgetown senior Oliver Friedfeld and his roommate were held at gunpoint and robbed, and yet, this fool says he doesn’t blame the crooks.
In fact, this halfwit even claimed that he didn’t think his attacker was even a “bad person.”
Seriously. This is the nonsense that our children are taught.
“Not once did I consider our attackers to be ‘bad people.’ I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me. In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay,” wrote Friedfeld in an editorial featured in The Hoya, the university’s newspaper. “The fact that these two kids, who appeared younger than I, have even had to entertain these questions suggests their universes are light years away from mine.”
Friedfeld claims it is the pronounced inequality gap in Washington, D.C. that has fueled these types of crimes. He also says that as a middle-class man, he does not have the right to judge his muggers.
“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’” asks Friedfeld. “It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”
Police also aren’t the solution to the problem, Friedfeld argues.
“If we ever want opportunistic crime to end, we should look at ourselves first. Simply amplifying police presence will not solve the issue. Police protect us by keeping those ‘bad people’ out of our neighborhood, and I’m grateful for it. And yet, I realize it’s self-serving and doesn’t actually fix anything.”
Idiot.
