Friday, October 28, 2005
Scavenger hunt!
Becky O'Malley, hag-in-chief for the Berkeley Daily Planet, tries to be clever.
The background is that some old hag (another one) seems cool with the drug-dealing that goes on at her home. Her neighbors got pissed, and sued in small claims court when the police wouldn't do jack. As you know, the proper "progressive response" to such things is to defend drug dealers.
O'Malley goes and claims "Hey, you shouldn't be accusing her in small claims court, you should be accusing her in criminal court." She then quotes some constitutional principles she thinks are violated. But hey, if she thinks that some unconstitutional shit is going down, it seems the appropriate thing for her to do is to sue, rather than bitch about it in an editorial. But saving it for the "proper venue" only applies to people she disagrees with, apparently.
Anyway, she also says that some critics of one of the nutty progs, Andrea Prichett, who throws around racism accusations, are "going after her job" as a school teacher in one of the letters in today's paper. I decided to hunt for it, but couldn't find it.
First, there's a rather brutal takedown by Paul Rauber, but Pritchett's job doesn't come up, so I'll assume O'Malley was referring to the second letter here, by Laura Menard:
What Prichett fails to disclose is that she is employed as a writing teacher at the Alternative High School. One can only hope that she is not inciting the same hostility and lies in her classroom. But this being Berkeley, where rights and freedoms are often granted regardless of responsibility, I have concerns. I think the school district needs to remind her that this community values integration and tolerance.
Now, in a real stretch, I guess you could see that as "going after her job," but if O'Malley is really concerned about "tactics which are beneath contempt," she might want to consider where the threshold for throwing the "racism" accusation should be.
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