When the Duke lacrosse story broke, it immediately became a rallying cry for "social justice.".(The Week)(Duke University)(Brief article)

When the Duke lacrosse story broke, it immediately became a rallying cry for "social justice." The rape of a poor black woman by three privileged white men was a perfect propaganda piece for the Left: a jarring metaphor of racial, social, and economic exploitation. But now the case has crumbled. The prosecutor has been removed, forced to hire his own lawyers in the face of misconduct charges. Across the country, social critics have been left to cradle a dying scandal in their arms. At Duke, however, a faculty group is working desperately to keep the corpse from growing cold. In the early days of the story, they took out a newspaper ad lamenting the "social disaster" of "what happened to this young ...