This bit rearly got me… “2,275 days since George Floyd was murdered, and another young man, perhaps at the perceived opposite end of the societal elitism achievement spectrum, told us mere days ago that he was finding it hard to breathe, and now he’s gone.”

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It's hard for me not to think of Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery." Bloodlust. We humans in packs occasionally seem to need to engage in murder, in effect.

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"Regardless, the list of academics who have been found guilty of doing similar and worse than is alleged for Professor Arday is long… and you don’t know who they are…" This never should have been a worldwide story.

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I presume every one of the journalists that joined the pile-on, across the spectrum from poisonous to perplexed, has had to ponder their part, and that nearly all, for their well-being, will have concluded that either it wasn't a lynching, or, that their part cannot be considered part of a lynching.

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