Here in Eugene, we have witnessed the reality of how the lynch mobs worked in days of old.  Back then a black would transgress his imagined proper behavior and be strung up to die for the perceived transgression.  The intent of the transgression did not matter only its occurrence.   In rational and reasoned Eugene many want to destroy the professional life of a woman who simply put black makeup on her face in her own home because she transgressed their view of her proper behavior.   It doesn't matter why she did it only that she did.  Needless to say, the old lynching and current lynching are incompatible with a free respectful society.  Educated UO faculty who partook in the attempted lynching should be ashamed and apologize for theirs is the worse offense given its intended, not inferred, intent.