Campus Reform: Georgetown University Student Senior Oliver Friedfeld mugged, says he deserved it because of his 'privilege' [Sane readers who are mature enough to know about long-observed and scientifically verified inherent racial group differences might laugh and slap their forehead, but Mr. Friedfeld has just aced his social science grades and greatly boosted his chances to date pretty airhead feminists.]

Student mugged, says he deserved it because of his 'privilege'

Oliver Friedfeld blames his misfortune on his privilege and the inequality gap.

The student suggests that until we right the wrongs of the past, society should get used to “sporadic muggings and break-ins.”

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.” ...

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