The facts – in five minutes. No need to read my more obtuse wall-of-text posts. Just watch this guy (you’re welcome!!).
There’s something to the old maxim, that truth is stranger than fiction. Take, for example, Marcus Epstein, the hyper-conservative Tancredo staffer & personal friend to Pat Buchanan, convicted of a hate crime, for – get this – karate chopping a black woman in the head, while using an ethnic slur.
Wow.
But wait! He’s not really a bad kid, says Bay Buchanan. He’s just had a rough life:
It took Marcus a year after this incident to start thinking about a future. He took the LSATs [sic] and was accepted at the University of Virginia Law School on early admissions. The presence of a strong recovery community was one of the reasons he chose UVA and was ready to move to Charlottesville next month.
But the Left doesn’t care about any of this. They kept moving this little tidbit, watching it ricochet around their shallow world in the blogosphere, until it landed on a popular site for incoming law students. There individuals who claim they’re interested in carrying-out justice in this world saw to it that Marcus paid again for his offense. With nothing but a skeleton of a story they initiated a campaign targeted at UVA’s Admission Office. And they won — Marcus will not be attending UVA Law School in the fall.
Marcus Epstein is one of the bravest young people I have ever known. He deserved a second chance — as do all of us.
If only there was some way that we as a society could take into account the suffering of others, before judging them too harshly. Oh well.
