College Student Believes He Deserved to be Mugged Because of His ‘Privilege’
There are some people you just can’t help. This young man might be one of them.
Maggie Lit of Campus Reform reported.
Student mugged, says he deserved it because of his ‘privilege’
A Georgetown University (GU) student who says he was mugged at gunpoint says he “can hardly blame” his assailants.
Senior Oliver Friedfeld and his roommate were held at gunpoint and mugged recently. However, the GU student isn’t upset. In fact he says he “can hardly blame [his muggers].”
“Not once did I consider our attackers to be ‘bad people.’ I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me. In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay,” wrote Friedfeld in an editorial featured in The Hoya, the university’s newspaper. “The fact that these two kids, who appeared younger than I, have even had to entertain these questions suggests their universes are light years away from mine.”
Friedfeld claims it is the pronounced inequality gap in Washington, D.C. that has fueled these types of crimes. He also says that as a middle-class man, he does not have the right to judge his muggers.
“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’” asks Friedfeld. “It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”
Police also aren’t the solution to the problem, Friedfeld argues.
Student mugged, says he deserved it because of his 'privilege' (Campus Reform)
Comments
Proof positive that there are a lot of idiots at Georgetown.
Sounds like Friedfeld would qualify for a future career as a sin eater. If he’s so happy carrying guilt, he can find many clients in the prisons.
I am very impressed with the brainwashing Georgetown U has done. This nitwit is a quivering mass of guilt and cognizance of his micro-aggressions. No doubt employers will clamor to hire him.
The odds are this dumbbell will be taken out of the gene pool fairly soon, which is a good thing.