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After the 88 Duke professors were proven wrong about their siding with a liar who made false rape allegations about three lacrosse players, failed to adequately condemn the motives and actions of a partisan district attorney who attempted to callously railroad innocent young men, and created an on-campus climate branding all white males as potential racist rapists, they've decided to defend a gay associate director of Duke's Center for Health Policy who is accused of trying to sell his 5-year-old black "son" for sex online.

Of course, as with the faux rape case, they've issued another "statement"…

We are listening to our students. We’re also listening to the Durham community, to Duke Staff, and to each other. Regardless of the results of the police investigation, what is apparent everyday now is the anger and fear of many students who know themselves to be objects of gay racism; who see illuminated in this moment’s extraordinary spotlight what they live with every day. They know that it isn’t just Duke, it isn’t everybody, and it isn’t just individuals making this disaster.

This is only a disaster because of the rules liberals created and now they have to abide by. Instead of distancing themselves from the accused, it's all about us not becoming "gay racists"….

But it is a disaster nonetheless. These students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young boy and to themselves:

“This is not a different experience for us here at Duke University. We go to class with gay racist classmates, we go to gym with gay people who are racists … It’s part of the experience.”

“If it turns out that this administrator is guilty, I want him fired. But his firing will only bring resolution to this case and not the bigger problem. This is much bigger than him and throwing him out will not solve the problem. I want the administration to acknowledge what is going on and how bad it is.”

And this is what we, the Straight 88, are thinking right now—Duke isn’t really responding to this. Not really. And this, what has happened, is a disaster. This is a social disaster. The students know that the disaster didn’t begin on June 25th when Frank Lombard was arrested. And it won’t end with what the police say or the court decides. Like all disasters, this one has a history. And what lies beneath what we’re hearing from our students are questions about the future.

The problem is (as usual) these liberals are making it all about them. The problem is they are right.

For years they've portrayed gays as people only capable of being victims. When a fat sweaty male gym teacher molests teenaged girls, it's an outrage from coast-to-coast. However when a fat sweaty male gym teacher molests teenaged boys, we never hear the word "gay" because whomever uses that word is called a homophobe and the original crime is allowed to fade away.

What also troubles the left is that Professor Lombard did this to a small black child. At a time when most blacks are not onboard with the whole gay  marriage agenda, this must be kept silent as long as possible because it will further harden the hearts of black people who will be justified in asking if Lombard is the only one, and anyone bringing it up risks the homophobe-labeling wrath of the left.

Gay activists and their PC allies created and imposed these rules on all of us. It sucks now that they have to live by them.a