Two students have been arrested for hanging a presidential candidate in effigy. It seems the actual arrest is for stealing the things to make the effigy, but I’m curious how many times something gets stolen from a frat house and it results in a prosecution.
UK President Lee Todd said the effigy violates the university’s code of ethics, and Fischer faces punishment that could include expulsion.
“As outrageous and offensive an act as the effigy was, I truly believe it has mobilized our campus, the community and the state in an effort to battle racism,” Todd said Thursday.
Go to hell, Lee. Making and harming effigies of presidential candidates is an old American hobby, and if we’re going to live in an age when black people are going to run for president, we’ve got to tone down our racial sensitivity when people make political statements about black politicians.
UK police said the two men told them the act was in response to news reports of an effigy of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in California.
I guess prosecuting them for the theft could be called for (again, though, from the information released, this sounds like a pretty minor thing to give someone a criminal record over). But the university president’s jump to “now let’s fight racism” is the idiotic crap you’d expect from a university president. And the sort of racial overkill you’d expect in the Age of Obama.
Posted by Apollo in Audacity of Hype, Race