The privileged sons of the privileged act like shits? Who’d have seen that one coming? I think I saw an L&O episode about this!
By the time the GOP is done witnessing the public’s reaction to the New Yorker’s reporting, they’re gonna BEG for an FBI investigation. But by then, it will be too late. The concrete will have dried.
Law & Order Ripped from the Headlines!
These accounts indicate a vile culture, no doubt extending beyond Georgetown Prep. May we have our moment of reckoning.
The default response for anybody with any observational experience of either all-male prep schools or residential fraternities should ALWAYS be “they probably did it.” Toxic atmospheres intentionally breeding toxic gang behavior: a feature, not a bug.
I went to school with people like this. There was literally nothing they wouldn’t do. I wish I could unhear some of the things I heard back then.
Indeed. Have taught at both prep schools and, for the past 20-some years, on campuses with large residential fraternities. The latter, anyway, always display significant elements of gang toxicity; even people who are decent young men one-on-one, prior to or outside the frat, get pulled into vicious behavior in groups.
Isn’t this just a GOP “Boys will be rapists” kind of event?
Yeah we know this is going to be an episode on svu
Every entitled frat prick I remember from high school and the University of Wisconsin, is a Republican today. You coastal fellows haven’t got a monopoly.
And the alcohol, that goes without saying. But most of all to me it’s the privilege, and what it does to people who don’t have a perspective on being born into wealth. They can become as cruel to their supposed inferiors as any feudal lord. God help any woman of lower social status who thought these guys were glamorous and wanted to hang with them; it was expected that they’d degrade themselves in the most appalling ways the prepster’s twisted imaginations could devise.
It has to be more than a moment.
So what. All ex-fraternity members are not GOP. That’s a crazy implication that just because this fgs remembers only GOP ex-frat is not an indication of a massive, singular, exclusive genre of ex-frat guys.
This ran through my head
I don’t know why
You picked a monumentally dumb moment to defend entitled frat boys. But go right ahead and proceed Governor.
Absolutely it’s privilege.
The great James Gandolfini (RIP) said, in an interview, “Just put down that I hate privilege, OK? I hate privilege.”
I’m going to hasten to add that people with means are often great as people, as citizens, as public servants. But they’ve usually been raised to have a perspective on wealth and privilege. Mueller’s from the same background. There’s no social class that has a monopoly on bad behavior, I know that from experience.
I attended one of those Catholic Boys High Schools (59-63). Running with one of the it crowd, we thought at the time we had committed some serious shit and were sure if found out would have been dismissed in a heartbeat. I guess we were just amateurs based on descriptions I have been reading about Georgetown Prep. While we drank and got drunk it was maybe monthly not the weekly debauch described in these stories. There was no way anyone would have wanted to be half aware where they could not keep up with school demands. I also know for sure no one would have thought about assaulting anyone, some hazing, for about 2 weeks at the start of the school year, but never close to assault.