Yes, it happens in the United States.
Especially when academia is involved:
The accused student is judged not by a jury of his peers but instead by a three-person panel consisting of two administrators and one student “chosen from a specially trained pool of panelists.” Columbia doesn’t reveal what this special training entails, but based on the Stanford experience, in which the special training consisted of provisions such as the suggestion that an accused student presenting his case logically was a sign of guilt, the provision (which is absent in other Columbia disciplinary processes) doesn’t inspire confidence. And the accused student can be branded a rapist based on a 2-1 vote, with the two-person majority reaching its decision on a preponderance-of-evidence (50.01 percent) threshold.
And get this:
Actual innocence, according to this provision of the school’s new policy, can still result in a form of punishment. Columbia joins Swarthmore in this Orwellian outcome.
Lovely to know that this is happening in the United States.
Fortunately, the people who are doing this don’t realize that they are ultimately raising a generation of rebels.
Give them time.
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4 responses to “Punishing the Innocent”
Yes, give it time.
Unfortunately, we have to look forward to the left’s version of the 1950’s before we get to a libertarian version of the 1960’s.
Easily avoided. Don’t go to college. Get your education some other way.
Colleges and universities have become so openly anti-male (especially anti-white-male) that they are having trouble maintaining male enrollments. Kenyon College in Ohio has actually surreptitiously established a quote for admitting males: at least 45%, which they barely meet. So an all male campus in 1970 has evolved into an inferior girls finishing school.
There must be a market for gender-segregated schools. If I had a son of college age, I would be looking for an all male college. If my son wanted to study the humanities, and all male college would be mandatory for his health and safety.
How legal is this kind of star chamber kangaroo court?
You’d expect some innocent victim to be suing their ass off any day now.
This is right out if the middle ages when someone could be tried for witchcraft for what they did in somebody else’s dreams.
Anyway, now I know why they call it LIBERAL arts. Stay out of school or at least take a STEM subject.