Harvard Liberals Hate New Campus Sex Laws

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2014-10-19 15:39

Article here. Excetpt:

'Thus, the Harvard signatories include not only noted criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, who has long been viewed as right of center in the culture wars, but preeminent African-American law professor and Barack Obama’s mentor Charles Ogletree and several renowned female jurists such as veteran civil rights attorney Nancy Gertner, constitutional scholar Martha Field, and feminist legal theorist Janet Halley. This protest is not easy to dismiss as a right-wing anti-woman backlash.

The Harvard 28 join other liberal and feminist dissenters from the campus anti-rape crusade. Among them is George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf, a public interest attorney who has not only battled the tobacco and food industries but championed women’s rights in major sex discrimination cases, notably thepush to force the Citadel military academy to admit women in the late 1980s. (His website boasts that he has been called a “radical feminist.”) In the past several months, Banzhaf has focused much of his attention on what he believes is a massive attack on the rights of students accused of sexual misconduct. The title of one of his press releases speaks for itself: “Illegals at Border Have More Rights Than College Students Accused of Rape.”'

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"You know you're losing when you start shooting your own men."

That was from a WWII movie I once saw. The speaker was a German colonel, scene set in late 1944 some time, just about when the Germans realized they were _definitely_ losing.

Well I wasn't expecting Harvard-installed liberal profs to dissent from the feminist lock-step requirement for membership in "Club PC", but looks like they're doing what may turn out to be the proverbial nailing of the "95 Theses" to the door. Will history say this is where "schismatic feminism" started? Can't say until some time passes. But when the Boston Chapter of the American Libero-Feminist Front goes wayyy off-script and pretty much releases their own "Chaiere" of objections to the Sacramento Chapter's screed, it's a pretty significant split, and a very public one, too.

Has Sacramento and the Feminist Hooey Machine finally jumped the shark not just in the public's eye, but also in the eyes of a good chunk of their prime constituency? Starting to look like it. But no celebrations are warranted yet. The whack-o law passed that makes it a punishable offense upon unsubstantiated or even unsubstantiable complaint from an anonymous accuser around any activity having to do with affection or sex in a CA university remains in place and will until it is cancelled via legislation (not much chance there, at least, not until it starts costing the CA gov't and unis enough financially and politically) or judicial decision. It'd probably go to the CA SC, and given said court's current ideological disposition, it's pretty iffy that that route will pan out.

But watching some of Harvard's bedrock "tenured radicals" become disillusioned before one's very eyes is satisfying in its own way. Heck, eventually a few may actually come over to the MRA team, dare I dream? :) Would be nice, but the price is high, yes?

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2014-10-20 04:19