Falsely Accused

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'For many, this day is essential, in great part, because it vindicates the innocent and spurs groups like the Innocence Project, Title IX for All, and a host of others working to ensure organizations and institutions are not violating equal protections and the essential importance of the rule of law. Falsely Accused Day, and the stories many will share, are a reminder of the importance of due process and the need to get it right.

Things fall apart and lives are ruined when the law falls prey to systematic practices that remove protections in favor of expediency and “compromised justice.”
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Cases where people are wrongly accused of rape, homicide, and aggravated assault do not speak to the other forms of false accusations that lead to students being removed from schools, parents losing custody disputes, and people losing jobs, just to name a few.

In Heather’s MacDonald’s Diversity Delusion, she partly addresses the Title IX exploitations on college campuses that are not necessarily handled in a court of law but lead to falsely accused students, usually males, being expelled without due process and without legal protections. Some of the college ethos around Title IX is an apoplectic hysteria that only expands specific departments associated with Title IX and more crisis center staff on some of the safest places in America, college campuses. And even if a falsely accused student is not expelled, the emotional toll causes depression and impacts a student’s ability to carry on with his studies. Heather MacDonald identified a specific study that ushered in the “rape myth” culture actualized on college campuses:'