…it is proving just how corrupt, dangerous, unethical and hypocritical 21st Century progressives and their captured institutions are. Only to anyone paying attention, however. Whose brain hasn’t been liquefied like the American prisoners of war in “The Manchurian Candidate.
Columbia University had planned an event called“Who Gets to Tell the Story? Press Freedom & the Public Square,” to explore the challenges to Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech. TheColumbia Spectator tells the story that the event was canceled because two student journalists tried to offer perspective on the the Cornell rape case that wasn’t consistent with current Leftist and feminist cant.
You can’t make this stuff up.
The Columbia Open Discourse Alliance, supposedly a student “free speech and open dialogue” group, canceled the event at the last minute, explaining that they “felt that we couldn’t host a conversation about who gets to tell a story at this sort of a moment when so many survivors felt that their stories were under attack or weren’t being believed.”
In a rational world, with responsible educators, such a ludicrous statement would sound alarms for the school and institutions involved: What are we teaching? Why are our students so devoid of critical thinking skills? How do we fix this? Nah. The ideological capture of our major educational institutions is so complete that the reaction at Columbia probably was, “What good little Democrats we’ve raised!”
This has had the beneficial effect of laying bare the whole ‘consent’ lie that has been pushed by HR departments for decades. The whole self-righteous ‘you just need to get consent, if you have a problem getting consent, you are the problem’ lie used to stop any reasonable question or anyone trying to point out that this isn’t how the world works is now evident.
Given the evidence that consent was obtained before, during, and immediately after the events, and the public considers them rapists, how can a man possibly know if he is having consensual sex with a woman or if he is raping her? With the current definition of rape, he can’t. Since what matters is ‘long term consent’ with no deadline, he can never know for sure if the sex was consensual as long as the woman is still alive.
Again, this was exactly the point I made in my last appearance on NPR, and my reward was being ridiculed by a woke Georgetown Law School professor and being banned from future broadcasts.
Why is NPR still allowed to call itself “public?”
Freedom of speech. Why is Rachel Maddow allowed to call herself a “reporter”?
Yes, and now you have an excellent example. They still won’t let you share it and they definitely won’t admit it, but you have one.
“In a liberal society, women are allowed to make bad decisions, ones that may later reveal themselves as deleterious. The discourse, nonetheless, seems to omit the possibility that consensual sex, to the woman participating in it, can later reveal itself as traumatic and immoral.”
The journalism student’s statement above is incredibly eloquent and incisive. It verges upon being dispositive of the entire affair.
Well, then, clearly the answer is, after having sex with a woman you have to kill her.
Or, if that seems extreme, just get her to commit suicide.
Problem solved.
An interesting feature of the Cornell case is the fact Lucy was concerned about her sorority sisters thinking she was a slut. At some point in the past, women who were taken advantage of by bounders and cads were shamed and ashamed. I think this was an effective deterrent. Women steered clear of bounders and cads. If they fell prey to one, they kept it under wraps, unless and until they became pregnant (but effective birth control has eliminated that from the equation). Now that shame has been removed from the equation, a woman who falls victim to bounder or cad can become more than a bit of heroine by having the strength and fortitude necessary to expose the bounder or cad. I’m beginning to think shame was an effective governor in the murky world of extramarital sex. There’s simply no more “Uh, sorry, honey. You lose. You made your bed; you can sleep in it.”
I believe it was William F. Buckley who said “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
SPOT ON EVALUATION!!!
Everything these extremist lefties do and say, nearly every day, show me that they’re indoctrinated morons, aka dumbed down, and may have additional cognitive and psychological issues.