The Jury's in at Claremont
At the time, Stanford sociologist Lee Ross said that regardless of who vandalized Dunn's car,"doing this may actually have accomplished some of her goals, if her goal was to make people feel that racism was present and that there was danger of white backlash." He continued,"Sometimes people invent facts because they believe that the conclusion that it would lead people to is true."
This is the educational philosophy of some extreme pro-"diversity" groups nationally, notably the Association of American Colleges and Universities, which argues that working-class and middle-class students need a college education designed to purge them of their ingrained sexist and racist beliefs. It's nice to see this line of thinking didn't carry the day in the jury room.