'Affirmative consent': Colleges are motivated by the almighty dollar

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2014-11-09 20:44

Article here. Excerpt:

'The rationale for "yes means yes" is that universities are beset with sexual violence and steeped in "rape culture." Reports repeat the same shocking statistics: Either one in four or one in five college women have been the victims of a sexual assault.

Is it true? As my City Journal colleague Heather Mac Donald has pointed out, if those numbers were accurate, "Campus rape represents a crime wave of unprecedented proportions. No crime, much less one as serious as rape, has a victimization rate remotely approaching 20 or 25 percent, even over many years."

If the law's premise is bogus, how about the law's execution? As written, it offers a vague definition of "affirmative consent."

In any event, if sexual assault is so widespread on campuses, why not refer these crimes to the criminal courts? Because most of the cases likely wouldn't meet the standard of "reasonable doubt."
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So what is the push for "yes means yes" really about? California's liberal legislature and governor wouldn't have been so eager to tackle the supposed campus rape epidemic if the federal government wasn't demanding action and threatening to withhold precious education funding if states don't show results.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights this year launched investigations into 85 colleges and universities nationwide, looking into claims that the schools haven't taken sexual violence complaints seriously enough.

In that light, the new law's purpose is clear: Universities had better start punishing more alleged offenders, or there will be consequences for the universities.

And if administrators need a lower standard of proof to do get the job done, now they have one.'

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The Obama-Panderbot-Hildebeast-Wingnut alliance of feminist agenda imposition shows the results of having ideologues in office. This time, it's feminism. At other times, it's been fascists, communists, racists, entitled classists, paranoid anti-communists (e.g.: McCarthy, et al.), divine right royalists, etc. Many countries, many eras, no society is immune. This time, it's feminist ideology ascendant taking hold on gov't policy to a degree it hasn't before. It is now confident enough that it has started coercing colleges through laws of questionable constitutionality and financial pressure to become feminism's agents for making college so hostile to males they will start to avoid going to them.

History loves to repeat itself because the one thing for sure history shows is that people rarely learn from it.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2014-11-11 07:13

"In that light, the new law's purpose is clear: Universities had better start punishing more alleged offenders, or there will be consequences for the universities."

Find the man guilty or lose funding. That's the message.

That means such "hearings" are fundamentally biased against the man.

The bad news for the universities is that the male students are suing back, which may cost the university more money. I can easily imagine some universities or colleges going bankrupt or shutting down because of the financial pressure.

The universities are faced with an unprecedented legal problem: being held financially liable for a crime committed against their students. Right now that's limited to sexual assault, but it could be extended to all crimes. On the other hand, the typical city, for example, cannot be sued by a victim of a crime. The city has no general financial liability to someone who is a victim of a crime. If they did, they would soon go bankrupt paying out claims. That's why they don't do it. The other reason is that it places the city and the criminal on the same legal side: if the city must pay out money if the accused is found guilty, the city wants the accused to be found innocent. This could happen to the universities if male students start winning large settlements. Right now, they're being squeezed on 3 sides: the Feds, the accuser, and the accused. It's hard to foresee a happy ending.

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Submitted by el cid on Tue, 2014-11-11 14:16