Well, he is certainly committed to the cause. I doubt anyone would pay attention to him otherwise.
Many other people have similar stories of woe. Why, Lee Siegel has almost had to go into hiding after some anonymous prankster stole everything in his house and replaced it with an exact replica.
Anscombe deserves better, and little shits that make up stories about being assaulted for their ideology need to be strung up in the town square that I might heave rocks at them.
that just proves that some people will go to great lengths, I guess.
It took this to prove to Insty that some people will go to great lengths for the Republican cause? Not the pointless impeachment, the bogus Supreme Court decision in a stolen election, or the apparently pointless war? Not the erosion of civil liberties, the contempt for constitutional procedure, not the ... well, the general contempt? But a kid smacking himself around.
Analytic philosophy. Need I say more?
Robert George is not an analytic philosopher.
He also has a BA from...Swarthmore! He must be a fascist.
Today I did my quarterly scroll through Instapundit. He claimed near the top to have been suspicious of the student's claims after it turned out to be false, but then lower down on the page, he used the (not yet falsified) story as part of one of his running gags, evincing no skepticism whatsoever.
I am Jack's total lack of surprise.
Actually, Instapundit says
the concussion made a hoax seem unlikely, but that just proves that some people will go to great lengths the hospital after making a false report of an assault.
Wow, I just somehow managed to unfairly malign the Instapundit.
Well, you can be forgiven since he takes pains to smugly say that most hate crimes are hoaxes (especially the ones reported by liberals and the blacks).
Also not to be missed is the assertion that a guy going to the hospital and saying he got a concussion is credible evidence of a hate crime, while a noose left on a person's door is totally not evidence. Anyone could have tied that noose!
It's still unclear whether he was even injured, thanks to some terribly bad campus journalism. The first article about the incident never confirmed that he actually went to the hospital.
Also, no one gives a shit about the Anscombe Society. The pro-life group always steals their thunder, with events like "Liberal Reasons to Support Abortion."
Princeton's a weird place. It's an Ivy League school with essentially none of the professional-school paraphernalia that comes with most schools of its status (Law, Medicine, Business), a small undergrad population, a much smaller grad student presence, and it dominates the twee little town it's located in. None of this does much good for the undergrads there.
Don't forget the eating clubs, giving out alcohol three nights a week for free.
16: "Oh, come now. You wanted to be Krusty's sidekick since you were five! What about the buffoon lessons? The four years at clown college?" "I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way."
16/17: I think I turned out just fine, thanks.
I feel compelled to note that there *are* a lot of fake hate crimes.
Could we get some stats on the fake hate crime thing?
I don't know what to believe anymore.
Isn't it your job to figure that belief stuff out?
The best thing about this story? Sherif don't like it: Former Anscombe president Sherif Girgis '08 said he is "deeply angry and upset" at the news the incident was fabricated.
I've never actually read Instapundit.
Anscombe deserves better
Snark, or recognizing that the defense of conservative sexual mores ought to be respectable?
Went to their site: goes a lot further than I can sympathize with.
Ah, the Anscombe Society. I thought criticizing the availability of rape kits was bad, but its members just keep finding new lows.
Wow. When I was an undergrad, back in the 1990s, we didn't need a society to explain to us how not to have sex. My friends and I were perfectly capable of not getting laid on our own.
I'm still curious whether Cala was somewhat sympathetic.
31: I think Cala meant that the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, a student of Wittgenstein's, deserved better than the eponymously named society.
I think she means the philosopher Anscombe (is that the namesake of the society, as FL suggests?) deserves to have a much better society named after her.
Great minds think alike, and so do we.
31: To the society or to Elizabeth? I'm a big fan of her Modern Moral Philosophy, though it goes wrong in various ways.
It seems very lame and wrong-headed, to be sure.
I think Princeton is the only Ivy to have seen an alumnus go on to draw the X-Men and found Image Comics, so it's got that going for it.
31: I think Cala was expressing the sentiment that Elizabeth Anscombe, the namesake of the club, deserves better than to have her name associated with these bozos.
Multi-pwned. Gotta learn to type faster.
oudemia, Ned, and zadfrack have me right, though I should add that I am probably a little sympathetic to idiots beating themselves about the head (though not with the rest of his moronic nonsense.) Would that we could will it universally! Political speeches would be much more fun with self-flagellation.
33: From their web site:
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret (G.E.M., or Elizabeth) Anscombe (1919-2001), a student and literary executor of Wittgenstein, was a British analytic philosopher -- according to some, the 20th century's greatest. Her 1957 book Intention, on the role of reasoning in human action, has become a modern classic; her penetrating analysis of traditional sexual ethics in a 1977 essay "Contraception and Chastity" displays the rigor of her moral reasoning and the vigor of her defense of family values. A highly regarded Cambridge professor, wife, and mother of seven, she was chosen as our namesake for her unabashed dedication to the life of the mind and to marriage and family in her life and work.
"a British analytic philosopher -- according to some, the 20th century's greatest"
Okay, I'm all for giving Anscombe her due, but that's stretching it a bit.
She did so much more than talk about contraception! You should be learning this at Princeton! Beat yourself more, child!
"According to some" is doing a lot of work, zadfrack.
G.E.M. is truly outrageous
Truly, truly, truly outrageous
Anscombe, the philosopher, was a pretty nasty piece of work, too. But I wonder if the Anscombe Society bothers protesting the Iraq war since one thing Anscombe the philosopher did do was make a big stink about what she took to be war crimes and unjust war. She certainly would have thought the Iraq war unjustified and full of war crimes. She didn't merely protest against contraception and in front of abortion clinics, after all.
her penetrating analysis of traditional sexual ethics
*giggles*
I'm shocked took 14 hours and 21 minutes for someone to post 47.