Compliments as Rape at Penn State

What will become of justice when liberals achieve total dominance? For the answer, refer to the college world, where they already exert unchallenged authority. There, disfavored identity groups are denied even the most basic due process. In one recent example, a Penn State coed pressed charges against a guy after she had second thoughts following consensual sex.

There was no coercion involved, and yet he supposedly raped her, because he had cajoled her with flattery. Seriously:

A hearing panel was convened, and John was denied due process, as have many students — he was not allowed to call witnesses in his defense or cross-examine his accuser or the witnesses against him.

There were other outrages against fairness. The hearing was a kangaroo court.

John was found responsible and suspended for one year.

According to the hearing panel’s chair, the guillotine came down on the grounds that the “panel felt that the respondent’s continual flattery … constitutes cajoling.” Complimenting women, coercing them at knifepoint, what’s the difference?

“John” pushed back with an appeal. But the evil monks of the Ivory Tower do not like having their rulings challenged:

Danny Shaha, assistant vice president of student affairs, [declared] that the appeals process was on hold. He wrote to the appeals officer that the first hearing was under review as “the board may have misinterpreted the University’s definition and application of ‘coercion.’”

Shaha did not vacate the hearing panel’s finding since it didn’t meet the definition of coercion. Instead, he set up a new hearing. Prior to the second hearing, John was provided with a copy of the university’s new definition of consent, which included the word “cajoling” as part of the definition of coercion. The definition was not, at the time, published anywhere public by the school, but was used against him in the new hearing.

If the defendant did not break the law, then change the law proactively. That’s how it is done in backward societies, such as those dominated by moonbats.

On a tip from Doc.

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