Taki Taki

High life | 23 October 2010

Taki lives the High Life

issue 23 October 2010

It’s open season against whites over here. A couple of weeks ago, an 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate, also 18, and a female student accomplice used a webcam to film him surreptitiously in a gay sexual encounter and send it to their closest thousand friends. Tyler Clementi’s body was fished out a week later, after the cheap laughs had subsided. Clementi was a top violinist and was studying music. He came from a closely knit family, which is obviously devastated.

The story made the news but the perpetrators were not treated as the monsters they are because — yes, you guessed it — Clementi was white and Catholic, while his roommate, Dharun Ravi, was from the subcontinent and quite brown. His accomplice, Molly Wei, is oriental. Clementi was shy, a top student and quiet. Ravi is a troublemaker and a wise guy, and the Chinese a dragon woman.

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