Education Department Proposes Enhanced Protections for Students Accused of Sexual Assault

Roxxsmom · Nov 16, 2018

The Trump Administration continues in its far-reaching quest to be on the wrong side of history in every regard.

Because, of course, students go around wrongly accusing their fellow students of sexual assault all the time :sarcasm

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced sweeping rules on how colleges handle cases of sexual assault and harassment that she says will fix a "failed" and "shameful" system that has been unfair to accused students. In what the administration is calling a "historic process," the proposed rules aim to significantly enhance legal protections for the accused and reflect a sentiment expressed by President Trump that men are unfairly being presumed guilty. More than a year in the making, the rules replace Obama-era policies on how to implement Title IX, the law barring gender discrimination in schools that get federal funding.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/6685...otection-for-students-accused-of-sexual-assau

frimble3 · Nov 17, 2018

Hey, and once the students get these enhanced protections, why, in the interests of fairness, the instructors should get them, too. After that, the sky's the limit, and no man will ever be held to account for his criminal sexual activities, ever again.

Yeah, I can see why Trump and the Creepy Old Politicians Club want this.
It's ridiculous. It's not even about high-school teenagers: if you're old enough and smart enough to get into college, you should understand, at a minimum, that you shouldn't try to have sex with drunk or semiconcious women, and, even better, not try to get them drunk or semiconcious. Or bully them, or badger them, etc.

Brightdreamer · Nov 17, 2018

frimble3 said:
Hey, and once the students get these enhanced protections, why, in the interests of fairness, the instructors should get them, too. After that, the sky's the limit, and no man will ever be held to account for his criminal sexual activities, ever again.

Yeah, I can see why Trump and the Creepy Old Politicians Club want this.
It's ridiculous. It's not even about high-school teenagers: if you're old enough and smart enough to get into college, you should understand, at a minimum, that you shouldn't try to have sex with drunk or semiconcious women, and, even better, not try to get them drunk or semiconcious. Or bully them, or badger them, etc.

I'm waiting for them to flat-out decriminalize all violence against women. And I'm not even sure I'm joking anymore; any regime that brings back asbestos and strips protection from national lands and literally steals kids while praising Nazis, there's no limit to the evil they'll unleash.

ap123 · Nov 17, 2018

In addition to the clear, revolting (and terrifying) put wimmenz in their place aspect, I saw an interesting take in a thread on Twitter, looking at it as institutional interests vs student interests. No mystery as to why DeVos would land on the side of institutional interests.

SarahJane · Nov 17, 2018

Absolutely disgusting. Every time I think these nutjobs can't get any lower, they pull a stunt like this.

SWest · Nov 17, 2018

There is no war on women, and women never collaborate in their own oppression. Keep it moving, nothing to see here...

(Hope-to-heck you are not an egg machine attending college in Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, or Ohio...)

Roxxsmom · Nov 19, 2018

Well aren't we all just frightened for the poor guys? What kind of world is it when young men live in terror of being kicked out of college, maybe even prosecuted, for "enhanced" sexual conquest? It's not like they can help themselves when those darned "co eds" insist on tempting and taunting them by existing in the same space as the men.

Education Department Proposes Enhanced Protections for Students Accused of Sexual Assault

Roxxsmom

Beastly Fido

frimble3

Heckuva good sport

Brightdreamer

Just Another Lazy Perfectionist

ap123

Twitching

SarahJane

SWest

In the garden...

Roxxsmom

Beastly Fido