Culture DOE rescends "Dear Colleague" letter.

https://www.thefire.org/dear-collea...epartment-rescinds-controversial-2011-letter/

Does anyone think that this will make the collage rape hoaxes less common, or is it too ingrained now?

 

[RI 360]

Rape hoaxes will continue indefinitely when campuses tailor their curriculum to the histrionic and cater to the mentally ill. At least now the accused stands a chance at not having their lives ruined over a jilted one night stand.

 

[Wargarbl]

It may not happen overnight, but you will see colleges stop handling sex cases in-house soon. It opens them up to a shitload of liability, and there's nothing big institutions hate like liability.

 

[SwanDive]

False rape accusations are going to continue regardless unless there are severe penalties for anyone who maliciously accuses someone of rape. The downside to that, of course, is that would also discourage actual victims from filing a report. Obviously this will become less of a problem as the methodology for gathering and examining evidence is improved, but I can't see such developments having a significant impact for at least another decade.

 

[m0rnutz]

There is a legal term where an attorney will say something only to redact it. @AnOminous could probably say it, it's when they put the idea in the jury's mind while keeping it from fucking up the trial.

It kind of applies here. You can redact whatever and say it didn't happen, but the point is that you said it did. And because you did, people will beat that dead horse long after it's a rotten corpse.

 

[AnOminous]

There is a legal term where an attorney will say something only to redact it. @AnOminous could probably say it, it's when they put the idea in the jury's mind while keeping it from fucking up the trial.

It kind of applies here. You can redact whatever and say it didn't happen, but the point is that you said it did. And because you did, people will beat that dead horse long after it's a rotten corpse.

It's pretty common to ask a question you know will get an objection and you know it's totally out of line, but you ask it anyway to get the objection, then withdraw it. These kind of shenanigans are sometimes frowned upon and you might get reprimanded and told to quit doing that, so it's a fairly common slightly dickish move to throw in one of these at the very end.

https://www.thefire.org/dear-collea...epartment-rescinds-controversial-2011-letter/

Does anyone think that this will make the collage rape hoaxes less common, or is it too ingrained now?

There are always going to be false accusations of nearly any crime. This might cut down on some of the more recent bullshit like the Mattress Girl case where some raving lunatic was allowed to harass another student for literally years despite her claims being completely unfounded (even in the kangaroo court of disciplinary hearings).

That didn't have anything directly to do with this, though. She actually lost even in that rigged tribunal. Crazies gonna crazy.

 

[Goofy Logic]

It may not happen overnight, but you will see colleges stop handling sex cases in-house soon. It opens them up to a shitload of liability, and there's nothing big institutions hate like liability.

Considering how several universities were slapped upside the head in lawsuits stemming from those cases that government policy demanded in order to get funding, I bet you administration boards everywhere are sighing in relief.

 

[TowinKarz]

It won't stop the crazies, but it will give them less ammunition and less potential for damage. Step in the right direction. A lot of SJWism has been empowering crazy people, whether by accident or in horrific cases, by design, in their belief that passion equates to morality and truth.

I.E. - The world isn't flat, but the guy who swears up and down that it is is just so darn insistant and upset, SOMETHING must be a little true about his claim....

 

[Ruin]

Good due process is a right, it's not conditional.