Remind me again how there’s a “War on Women?”
At a congressional hearing on campus sexual assault, Colorado Rep. Jared Polis (D) suggested that expelling students based solely on the idea that they might have committed a crime is an acceptable standard. And the hearing audience applauded him.
“I mean, if there’s 10 people that have been accused and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, seems better to get rid of all 10 people,” Polis said. “We’re not talking about depriving them of life or liberty, we’re talking about their transfer to another university.”
“I mean, if I was running one I might say ‘well, you know, even if there’s a 20 or 30 percent chance that it happened I wouldn’t want … I would want to remove this individual,’” Polis said. “Why shouldn’t a private institution, in the interest in promoting a safe environment, use an even lower standard than a preponderance of evidence, like even a reasonable likeliness standard?”
Let’s try it with illegal immigrants, shall we?
“I mean, if there’s 10 illegal immigrants that have been accused and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, seems better to get rid of all 10 illegal immigrants,” Polis said. “We’re not talking about depriving them of life or liberty, we’re talking about their transfer to another country.”
There, I like that version better.
Except, if you’re expelled because you were accused of sexual assault, no other college is going to want you, either. You’re not depriving them of life or liberty but you are depriving them of their chosen livelihood, assuming they were in college to study for a profession.
Well, you really can’t expect a dot-com multi-millionaire who grew up in The People’s Republic Of Boulder to be up on arcane legal concepts like due process, though I suspect that the ACLU Of Colorado will (quietly) give him an edumacation on how important a concept that is at some point in the future.
It’s too bad he’s also not up on history, as well, as what he is advocating is precisely what was done to legions of gay men and lesbians when found to be in proximity of places of ill repute (eg, bars, nightclubs, known tearooms) in years gone by.
Add to this, two more points:
Contrary to his statement, a state university is NOT a private institution.
Now, even if they were to FORCE another university to accept those accused of rape, how long is it going to take the feminists on the new campus to get wind that this guy is an easy mark to score feminist points on, and get him transferred again…and again…and again… until all state universities have been utilized, his options gone, all for the sake of perpetuating a lie of “rape culture”?
Well, I think just maybe Senator Polis might feel a little different about taking away the right to defend oneself from an accusation if his own son (I have no idea whether he has children or not) or brother were falsely accused of something. University campuses have become hotbeds of radicalism and developing their own laws and policies that go against the government. A lot of men have bought into the rape culture ideology and are convinced that their own kind are predators and monsters that do not deserve the gift of a college education. What about the vast majority of young men on campus who are there to study hard and make their futures lives better.
Lets form a Committee for Public Safety and judge members of Congress using the same logic. Guillotine mandatory.
The Dems are starting to sound like Stalinists at times.
Frankly, with a 16 year old son; this crap really scares me. Actually as a 42 year old woman is really scares me too. Where do these people come from, and how many of them actually think like this?
The mob has always thought like this. They have burned witches. They have guillotined aristocrats. They have gassed Jews and other undesirables. That is why power must be dilute and not concentrated.
Seems to me that the feminist premise that all man are potential rapists (though some are now even removing the word ”potential”) are making the same mistake that society made before 2nd wave feminism. Back then it was “all women are all seductresses.” Now, and rightly so, saying that would immediately brand you as an ignorant bigot, but suddenly it’s alright to make an equally irrational claim that because their are rapes, then every male is guilty. But since this idea has already entered the culture, at least males should have the right to due process and fair judgment (innocent until proven guilty) to convince an unbiased jury that they did not commit this crime. It’s absurd that college campuses should have the power to overrule the decisions of police and government. What makes a college professor, administrator or (God help us, a student) qualified to judge and condemn any student, male or female, outside of the same judicial process that any citizen is entitled to.