Comments on: The mob is generally against us. https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/09/the-mob-is-generally-against-us/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Sat, 29 Apr 2017 01:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: chrisgale https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/09/the-mob-is-generally-against-us/comment-page-1/#comment-3846 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:07:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=4886#comment-3846 I look at the links today and find a classic example of whipping up emotions to preserve an industry. That of sexual violence. Such events exist, and the rates are too high, but not one in five. I’m quoting Janet Bloomfield.

As for the topic of the campus rape epidemic, she said she believes campuses are whipping up “rape hysteria” for a variety of reasons.

“It comes down to this: colleges are creating rape hysteria so
college employees who run these sexual assault centers can keep their
jobs and benefits. Women are encouraged to interpret normal sexual and
relationship behaviors as abuse and encouraged to have the young men
they are partnering with sanctioned by the college,” she said.

“The end result is that college campuses are becoming increasingly
hostile to men and colleges that enact their ‘kangaroo courts and
policies’ to deal with sexual misconduct are opening themselves to huge
liabilities when the accused and sanctioned men take their claims into a
real court and sue for damages,” she added. “They tend to win once due
process and the requirement for evidence beyond a reasonable doubt is
restored. “

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