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“I’m watching you, white boy.”

That’s one of the final lines in a recent racially charged op-ed by Isis Davis-Marks published in the Yale Daily News.

Davis-Marks calls for students to try to ruin the reputations of white male Yalies by collecting political opposition research at college parties and spreading unsubstantiated gossip and allegations as widely as possible.

Putting aside the blatant racism, this is also just terrible advice for combating what Davis-Marks must perceive as a culture of white racism, male sexual misconduct, and general malevolence.

But the racism and lack of common sense didn’t stop Yale Daily News editor-in-chief Britton O’Daly from following it.

Davis-Marks noted that the newspaper had already taken a positive step by publishing a sarcastic column by Anna Blech excoriating a recently re-admitted student who had sued Yale for gender discrimination after administrators suspended him for alleged sexual misconduct.

Davis-Marks called the column a good example of “boldly and publicly” calling out white male Yalies.

By this, Davis-Marks means she wants to read more character assassinations in the pages of the Yale Daily News—a wish O’Daly seems more than happy to grant.

In her column, Anna Blech doesn’t add any new information and she doesn’t disclose any first-hand knowledge of the alleged events.

Like most character assassins, she finds the most unflattering facts about a person, mixes them with a graphic restatement of unsubstantiated second-hand claims, and then hopes that the reader will ignore the word “allegedly” liberally sprinkled throughout.

Oh, and Anna Blech uses her target’s full name TWENTY-THREE times in the article. Because Anna Blech knows that Anna Blech’s character assassination will work better if Anna Blech can get her article to the top of the Google results for the name of the man Anna Blech targeted.

And Isis Davis-Marks likely approves of this tactic because she thinks it will make Isis Davis-Marks’ future opposition research against white male Yalies easier.

But by the time Isis Davis-Marks’ “white boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile” (yes, that is a real line from her article) turns into a “white man” and sits down for his “Senate confirmation hearing,” the accumulated opposition research will be worthless.

For each credible rumor of impropriety—be it of racism, sexual misconduct, or just plain malevolence—there already will be many rumors that are widely exaggerated or simply false.

And the more that these accusations are taken at face value with little if any scrutiny, the more malicious parties will be emboldened to spread false rumors to serve their own purposes.

Many innocent people will be dragged through the mud.

Referenced Yale article: yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/02/0…