Where "rape culture" has gotten us
If fiction, this would be dismissed as unbelievable.
"Doe accompanied the accuser (who was Doe's girlfriend's roommate) to her dorm room. The accuser performed oral sex on a blacked out Doe (Johnson notes that even the Amherst hearing found Doe's account of being blacked out 'credible'). Doe leaves. The accuser then texted two people: First, a male student she had a crush on [...]
The accuser said during her hearing that she only texted one friend to help her handle the assault as she felt 'very alone and confused.' But her texts with her female friend give no indication of an assault. Rather, the accuser texted her friend 'Ohmygod I jus did something so fuckig stupid' [sic throughout]. She then proceeded to fret that she had done something wrong and her roommate would never talk to her again, because 'it's pretty obvi I wasn't an innocent bystander.'
She also complained that the other man, who had come over after the alleged assault, had taken until 5 in the morning to finally have sex with her.
[...] nearly two years later - the accuser developed new friends. And as it happens, these new friends were all 'victims' advocates.'"
"The adjudication process, as described by Johnson, was a Kafkaesque farce:
Despite an accuser who offered borderline non-coherent responses that subtly expanded on her initial story, the panel ultimately accepted her credibility. It ruled that while Doe likely was 'blacked out' during the oral sex, '[b]eing intoxicated or impaired by drugs or alcohol is never an excuse.' Since AS [the female] said she withdrew consent at some point during the sexual act, and since Doe couldn’t challenge that recollection, the panel was at least 50.01 percent inclined to believe the accuser’s tale.'"
"I think even the most staunchly pro-victim anti-rape activists would admit that (maybe). But it strikes me that this is exactly the kind of confounding verdict that a college is likely to reach when forced to adhere to the favored policies of the anti-rape activists: affirmative consent and preponderance of the evidence standards."
The rape culture activists and their useful idiot supporters will support it.
"We should expect to see more of this insanity, not less, when the federal government obligates college administrators to insert themselves in students’ sex lives."
Guilty unless you can prove yourself innocent. This is not America. But it is Democrat. When is enough for good people?
http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/11/amherst-student-was-expelled-for-rape-bu
"Doe accompanied the accuser (who was Doe's girlfriend's roommate) to her dorm room. The accuser performed oral sex on a blacked out Doe (Johnson notes that even the Amherst hearing found Doe's account of being blacked out 'credible'). Doe leaves. The accuser then texted two people: First, a male student she had a crush on [...]
The accuser said during her hearing that she only texted one friend to help her handle the assault as she felt 'very alone and confused.' But her texts with her female friend give no indication of an assault. Rather, the accuser texted her friend 'Ohmygod I jus did something so fuckig stupid' [sic throughout]. She then proceeded to fret that she had done something wrong and her roommate would never talk to her again, because 'it's pretty obvi I wasn't an innocent bystander.'
She also complained that the other man, who had come over after the alleged assault, had taken until 5 in the morning to finally have sex with her.
[...] nearly two years later - the accuser developed new friends. And as it happens, these new friends were all 'victims' advocates.'"
"The adjudication process, as described by Johnson, was a Kafkaesque farce:
Despite an accuser who offered borderline non-coherent responses that subtly expanded on her initial story, the panel ultimately accepted her credibility. It ruled that while Doe likely was 'blacked out' during the oral sex, '[b]eing intoxicated or impaired by drugs or alcohol is never an excuse.' Since AS [the female] said she withdrew consent at some point during the sexual act, and since Doe couldn’t challenge that recollection, the panel was at least 50.01 percent inclined to believe the accuser’s tale.'"
"I think even the most staunchly pro-victim anti-rape activists would admit that (maybe). But it strikes me that this is exactly the kind of confounding verdict that a college is likely to reach when forced to adhere to the favored policies of the anti-rape activists: affirmative consent and preponderance of the evidence standards."
The rape culture activists and their useful idiot supporters will support it.
"We should expect to see more of this insanity, not less, when the federal government obligates college administrators to insert themselves in students’ sex lives."
Guilty unless you can prove yourself innocent. This is not America. But it is Democrat. When is enough for good people?
http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/11/amherst-student-was-expelled-for-rape-bu