'Affirmative Consent' Law Unfair And Unconstitutional

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'Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would significantly change college disciplinary proceedings in cases that involve allegations of sexual misconduct. Among other things, the bill would put the burden of proof upon the accused to establish their innocence. This is almost surely unconstitutional, and our legislature should decline to pass any law that contains such a provision.

Everyone knows that in a criminal case, the government must prove its case "beyond a reasonable doubt." The scales are tipped this way because the stakes for the defendant — possible incarceration, other restrictions on liberty, and the stigma of a criminal conviction — are so severe.

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'Yes Means Yes' Bill Would Eliminate Due Process on Campuses

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'Rape is a very serious crime. It is a violation of another individual’s body and mind in a way that is far worse than almost every other crime. Society must reject rape and find ways to foster a culture that does not promote rape or make it acceptable. To that end, we must reverse the presumption of innocence in cases involving sexual assault and make the accused prove that he did not, in fact, rape the victim.

At this point, you’ve realized that this is impossible to do and not I’m seriously suggesting it. So why then are our legislators proposing a similar idea, except limiting it to rape on campuses? Couched as the “affirmative consent” or “yes means yes” law, it is essentially a reversal of the presumption of innocence and an elimination of due process on college campuses.

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Why Aren't We Discussing Fatherlessness?

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'Fatherlessness is on the rise. It is causally linked to an array of social risk factors. While there are success stories in single-parent households, children raised without a father in the home are more at risk for dropping out of school, using drugs, having emotional problems, and becoming involved in crime, just to name a few.

Each of these individual risk trends can impact health care expenses, education, the budget and economy as well as public safety. Taken together they look like the root problem for many of our societal ills. The body of research confirming fathers' importance grows. We even have studies looking at the stunning public cost of fatherlessness. Yet our politicians do not discuss fatherlessness as a policy matter.

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Should Colleges Still Punish Sex Assault Suspects – Even If They Weren’t Convicted?

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'This month two male students filed separate lawsuits against the University of Texas at Austin. The men claim they were unfairly treated after allegations of sexual assault were made against them. Authorities never charged either student, but university officials have moved to expel both of them. The plaintiffs say the university is using them as scapegoats to demonstrate the school is tough on sexual assault.

This case has raised some questions: What can schools do in sexual assault cases? What rights do accused students have? How common are these lawsuits?

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Academics: Computer Science Needs To Be About Feminist Feelings

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'Computer scientists should be more in touch with their feelings and emotions, according to a peer-reviewed study by a Purdue University academic published last week.

The academic in question spent five years conducting an autoethnographic study on how introductory computer programming courses should be taught. Autoethnography is a form of “scientific” research that explores the researcher’s personal experiences and feelings. Official academic definitions claim that the method “treats research as a political, socially-just and socially-conscious act.” The method of research is closely tied to feminist thought and “queer-theory.”

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Woman killed boyfriend for spending too much time on Facebook

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'A British hairdresser was sentenced to life in prison last week after she plunged a knife into her boyfriend’s heart — because she felt he spent too much time on Facebook.

Terri-Marie Palmer, 23, broke down in tears as she was convicted of 24-year-old Damon Searson’s murder following a one-week trial, where the details emerged about the fatal end of their rocky relationship, according to multiple reports.

Moments before the killing, Palmer posted: “He p***** me off sitting on Facebook, completely blanking me when I’m talking to him,” according to The Mirror Online.

She regularly posted on the social media site about how Searson would ignore her while scrolling through Facebook messages on his phone, adding random girls and posting shirtless photos of himself.'

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UofM Q&A #1 - Milo Yiannopoulos on Male Feminists

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'Posting a few of my (all outstanding) Q&A responses from Christina H. Sommers and my talk at UofM - part of my Dangerous Faggot Tour. The first question was about male feminists, and I cucking nailed it.'

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Buzzfeed Canada is Looking for Writers, White Males Need Not Apply

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'A senior writer for Buzzfeed Canada announced Thursday that the website was looking to hire freelance writers, but went out of her way to say they were not looking for white males.
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White males, surprisingly, were less than happy with the announcement, which led Koul to go on the defensive.'

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Slave Labor on the High Seas

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'Shocking revelations about the international fishing industry’s reliance on slave labor have caused many people to question the origin of the shrimp or tuna they eat. The disclosures have also led the United States to take some important new steps to clamp down on the use of indentured workers and discourage other unlawful activities on the high seas.

President Obama is expected to signlegislation that effectively bans American imports of fish caught by forced labor in Southeast Asia. The bill, passed by Congress this month, would close a loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930 that prohibits imports made by convicts or forced labor but exempts such goods if American domestic production could not meet demand. Now that is expected to end. The president recently signed an agreement allowing officials to deny port services to foreign vessels suspected of illegal fishing.'

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Problems With Paternity: Fraud To Securing Parental Rights

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'Paternity is a major problem area in family courts, whether you are talking about issues pertaining to fraud or biological fathers obstructed from having a relationship with their children. Unfortunately, there is little being done to fix these matters.

This leaves millions of men and children stuck in a legal rut, as courts require an inane number of hoops to be jumped when it comes to paternity law, oftentimes with scant hope of obtaining justice.

From fathers being required to pay support for children that DNA tests prove are not theirs to fathers blocked by the courts from being involved in their children's lives, family courts have much to do before the current system is fixed and justice is served.'

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Milo Yiannopoulos at University of Minnesota - Male Feminists Edition

Video here. Description: 'Quite possibly the most embarrassing 'protest' ever witnessed. On Feb 17, 2016 Milo Yiannopoulos gave a lecture on 3rd wave feminism with renowned feminist Christine Hoff Summers at the University of Minnesota. The talk was hosted and funded by The Minnesota Republic student group. Not even 5 minutes into the event, protesters started blasting air horns and calling him an asshole. Of the handful of protesters, only a single one appeared to be female.'

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Congress May Finally Fight Obama’s Campus Sexual Assault Policies

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'The Department of Education is defending a series of regulations it has imposed on American colleges and universities by claiming, in the face of substantial evidence, that they really aren’t regulations at all. Now, its defiance is setting up a potential clash with Congress.

Under the Obama administration, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has used an 11-page “Dear Colleague” letter from 2011 to aggressively dictate how colleges handle sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus. The “Dear Colleague” letter draws authority from the federal Title IX law prohibiting sex discrimination in education, and lays down very specific requirements. For example, colleges are now required to adjudicate sexual assault allegations using a low “preponderance of the evidence” burden of proof and required to use a very broad definition of harassment.'

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"Artificial Intelligence Might Just Disrupt Know-It-All White Men"

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'White male executives, long accustomed to their opinions becoming policy, may have the most to fear from artificial intelligence.

Seas of data analyzed by swift cognitive computing could make the gut instincts of the executives who dominate business obsolete, according to the lone woman on a five-person panel at the MIT Technology Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Saturday.

“A lot of business is run by, no offense, smart white men,” said Amanda Kahlow, chief executive of the AI-driven marketing firm 6sense, as she turned to the four white men serving on the panel. “AI is going to take the ego out of the equation.”'

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Get Someone To Bruise Your Face

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'Even though I see the good, the bad and the ugly side of human behaviour on a daily basis, I am still a great believer in humanity. I refuse to buy into the belief that all people are bad or that the world is full of evil.  Momentarily today, however, that sentiment was tested.

I was alerted to a conversation in a Facebook group of over 50,000 people, in which people are free to vent their frustrations away. While venting can be a good exercise for all of us, sometimes it will lead to incredibly bad and damaging advice – not to mention inciting someone to commit an illegal and utterly immoral act.

A woman complaining about her relationship disputes over child custody with her ex partner had quite innocently asked for advice. However, the advice she got was quite simply frightening.

On legal advice I am not using the name of the person involved, however her profile indicates she works for the Department of Education and has studied Psychology.'

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Feminism speakers draw protesters to University of Minnesota

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'Two outspoken opponents of contemporary feminism, British Breitbart.com technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos and American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, spoke to a packed auditorium at the University of Minnesota Wednesday evening.

The Minnesota Republic, a conservative, student-run magazine at the U of M, invited Yiannopoulos to campus to debate a faculty member of the gender, women and sexuality studies department on the topic of feminism. When no professors agreed, the Minnesota Republic reached out to Hoff Sommers, whose speeches on college campuses often draw protesters.

“Part of our mission here is to encourage diverse political dialogue, so we think that a conservative viewpoint on feminism is kind of silenced on campus,” Minnesota Republic editor-in-chief Anders Koskinen said. “We felt that hosting Milo would be a good way to express a well-rounded campus political dialogue.”'

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