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I wasn't arguing that the response to Lueke is necessarily racially motivated, rather, I argued that if there indeed is a general, societal backlash against persecution of white people accused of sex crimes, that general, societal backlash is selectively white.  The criminal justice system and media treat tons of people unfairly, and do it in similar ways - if people find the strength to express outrage at only the treatment of white people accused of sex crimes, that is certainly selectively white and I do not see how you can say otherwise.
The general, societal backlash was posited as one of several explanations for the support of Lueke.  I'm arguing that that factor does nothing to dispel the possibility of racial bias, because that backlash - if it indeed exists and if it indeed is a factor at play here - is borne of racial bias.
As for the questions I raised as a whole, they stem from my surprise at the fairly broad support for Lueke.  Do I have examples of other athletes not getting such a benefit of the doubt?  Not off the top of my head.  But because I was struck by the responses, I asked some questions - is the response, which I perceive to be as out of proportion to an expected response to someone accused of rape and who is found guilty of a related, lesser charge - driven by race, talent, his employer, attitudes towards women who try to pick up men at a bar, a Pavlovian response to Baker taking the other side, or anything else?
Or is my perception wrong - this community would equally support some non-athlete, non-mariner, non-white female accused of some crime and found guilty based on a nolo contendere plea to some lesser charge?