Is Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Grandstanding At The Expense of Due Process?

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2015-01-29 13:47

Article here. Excerpt:

'Those concerned with the continued dismantling of campus due process protections were cringing at Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) decision to invite Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz to accompany her to the State of the Union address. Ms. Sulkowicz gained attention last year for carrying around the mattress upon which she was allegedly assaulted by another student.
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Ms. Sulkowicz was unhappy with Columbia’s decision, so she has mounted a campaign of revenge, forever maligning the reputation of the young man who has been cleared of these charges. Sulkowicz’s relentless campaign does not prove her accusations, and they should not be treated as true by legislators attempting to gain support for their political objectives.

By inviting Ms Sulkowicz to accompany her, Senator Gillibrand undoubtedly wanted to send Congress the message that passage of her proposed Campus Accountability and Safety Act is necessary to protect students in their college environments. However, in her effort to push through the bill, Senator Gillibrand not only is willing to use a dubious victim, Gillibrand is also willing to use discredited and out of date statistics and unsubstantiated data.'

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The problem is that women like the Serta Sleeper gal want to be free to do whatever they want sexually while being "protected."

If we tell women not to go home with drunken men they just met at a sleazy bar, that's called blaming the victim. If we tell them not to go to frat parties because (supposedly) they're "hunting grounds" for sexual predators, that's called blaming the victim.

So how exactly are we to protect women? Are we supposed to send a policeman along with her when she goes to a bar to pick up a stranger? And send the policeman with her to the stranger's bedroom? At what point does this become creepy and weird and amazingly expensive? How much should we invest in keeping women "protected"?

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2015-01-29 16:15