Re:Returning Due Process to Campus
by throwaway3627 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @07:08PM
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There's two double-standards at play:
- victimhood hierarchy - prioritizing obscure identity attributes over the person.
- elite apartheid - celebrities, rich, popular, beautiful don't have to play by the same rules or receive the same punishments as everyone else. Also, the very bottom of society receives far more punishment than the middle.
Furthermore, there are several ambiguous, likely unknowable by anyone else, situations in the case of rape, because it's often a s/he-said situation due often to a lack of unbiased witnesses or solid evidence:
- Whether there was force or not
- Whether there was explicit, implicit or no consent
- If there was consent, was it later revoked or not, explicitly or weakly
- Is the allegation for actual harm or ego-/guilt-/remorse/-alleviation/revenge/enjoyment/attention
Actual rape isn't good, but an unfair/unnecessarily unpleasant process to suss-out what may/may not be possible to discover doesn't help either. It's very tricky.
- victimhood hierarchy - prioritizing obscure identity attributes over the person.
- elite apartheid - celebrities, rich, popular, beautiful don't have to play by the same rules or receive the same punishments as everyone else. Also, the very bottom of society receives far more punishment than the middle.
Furthermore, there are several ambiguous, likely unknowable by anyone else, situations in the case of rape, because it's often a s/he-said situation due often to a lack of unbiased witnesses or solid evidence:
- Whether there was force or not
- Whether there was explicit, implicit or no consent
- If there was consent, was it later revoked or not, explicitly or weakly
- Is the allegation for actual harm or ego-/guilt-/remorse/-alleviation/revenge/enjoyment/attention
Actual rape isn't good, but an unfair/unnecessarily unpleasant process to suss-out what may/may not be possible to discover doesn't help either. It's very tricky.