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RU4Real on the Rutgers' Rivals site"
The real issue here isn't the degree to which Ray was wrong or the degree to which Steven Smith may have been wrong for making the comments he made.
The real issue is that he offered an opinion, in his role as an opinion-driven journalist, and because that opinion didn't align with the current Collective Group-Think, he was publicly excoriated.
I watched a panel "discussion" just yesterday afternoon on CNN. The female anchor and her two female guests were orgiastic in what could only loosely be called criticism. What it really was, was an all-out character assault. For which they, of course, suffer no repercussions because they're simply parroting the Collective Group-Think.
Smith's message was pretty simple - human behavior is largely based on stimulus-response. Sure, it's wrong to punch a woman, but it's also probably a good idea for women to own up to their half of civilized social behavior.
The CNN panelists were unanimous in stating that Ray's wife spit on him, so he punched her. And that was a horribly criminal reaction. But let's face it - if a guy spit on you, you'd probably punch him. If you don't want to run the risk of getting punched, don't spit on people
