‘Are you insane?’ Sen. Gillibrand: Reporting this to police is ‘wrong approach’

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2015-11-17 15:15

Article here. Excerpt:

'We must reform how colleges handle sexual assault cases but requiring survivors to report their assaults to police is the wrong approach.

— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) November 16, 2015

Is it, Senator? Is it?

.@sengillibrand Exactly right. Accused rapists are best judged by a revolutionary tribunal of women's studies professors.

— Susan (@shoshido) November 16, 2015

@SenGillibrand FTR, if I'm ever murdered on a college campus, I want the student council to handle it instead of the police.

— Na[Cu(NT)2(H2O)] (@smittie61984) November 16, 2015'

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I found these comments astounding. It makes one wonder: why do we even have a justice system? For all its faults, our justice system is based on the idea that both parties in a criminal case have rights that the state must recognize.

Maybe that's the problem: certain women's groups don't want to recognize that someone else--the accused man--has any rights. They might be dismissed as a fringe element, but they have so far been very successful, especially on college campuses. Far from being a fringe element, they've become the mainstream.

A lot of feminism is based on the idea that only women have rights. No one else does.

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Submitted by el cid on Wed, 2015-11-18 13:31