Where's the outrage, asks Brit Hume in his Monday Special Report:
Conservative students and faculty at Princeton University are questioning the absence of campus and community outrage — following the beating of a student leading a morality movement at the school. The New York Sun reports Francisco Nava was attacked by two men last week and told to shut up. The beating came two days after Nava received death threats by e-mail.
Hume tells us that Nava, three other members of the morally conservative Anscombe Society, and a conservative professor received the death threats after Nava wrote in a letter to the Daily Princetonian that a campus campaign to distribute free condoms was "tacit sponsorship of hookup sex."
Somebody attempting to interfere with my free condom supply? Now that would certainly rouse my little compass-free libruhl brain to death threats, wouldn't it yours? So where the hell is the outrage from the political kreckness squad?
Princeton graduate Michael Fragoso tells the Sun — "There would rightly be outrage had the student been part of some other minority on campus. I have yet to see that right now, and that's rather disappointing."
Don't you just love that conservatives are now considered a "minority"? Wasn't the word originally supposed to have a slightly different content, like, having something to do with being disadvantaged or something? Do I now get to be a "minority" because I play the eight course lute and prefer my Chinese food with msg?
Anyhow, in truth I initially encountered this storywhen I visited the First Things website earlier today to check out the Weekly Standard Catholic reaction to the Huckabee ascension (so far rather noncommittal). Typically, the culture warrior blog had an amazingly detailed, seven page story on Nava posted on its front page. But wait... First Things, to its credit, was telling us to withhold judgement on the case because Nava had a history of falsifying hate speech.
Late [Friday] night, the president of the Anscombe Society, Kevin Joyce, e-mailed George, Hwang, and Girgis to report a startling discovery. He had heard from a friend that when Nava was at the Groton School he had fabricated an incident of hate-speech against his roommate and himself using the phrase "die fags!" (Nava’s roommate was one of the founders of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Groton.)
Brit?
The Prince tells it a little differently:
George added that Anscombe vice president Jonathan Hwang '09 — one of the four student recipients of the emailed threats, who was also visiting Nava at the hospital — said he was not comfortable returning to his dorm either and offered to stay at George's house that night in order to awaken Nava every four hours, a protocol UMCP had advised in case Nava had suffered a concussion. George agreed.
Later that night, however, Nava approached George and asked to talk to him in private about an incident from his past. When he was a student at Groton School, he said, he had fabricated a threat against himself and his roommate, writing "Die Fags!" outside their door and reporting the message to school officials. "He told me he was friendless and very homesick and wanted out of Groton," George said. "In that condition he fabricated a threat against himself and was caught by Groton officials."
He added that Nava told him the University had made him defer his admission for a year after reading Groton's report of the incident in order to "get therapy and counseling" but still allowed him to matriculate at the University.
Brit??
So University officials knew a year before he matriculated that Nava had a history of directing hate speech against himself and his friends. Again I ask you, where's the outrage?
Breaking news, Daily Princetonian, 8 p.m.. yeah, you guessed it. The guy beat himself up.
Brit???