By Professor Doom
While the Leftist
takeover of many of our campuses is disconcerting, there is, sort of, a ray of
hope here: this ideology is not merely destructive, it ultimately is
self-destructive, as much so for campuses as it was for countries.
Part of the reason
this ideology is so destructive is you can’t really defend against any charges
they make. Everything you say is interpreted as a micro-aggression, or some
sort of harassment…you can’t win against their charges, and so they run
roughshod over all their proclaimed “enemies.” Yes, today those enemies are
predominantly white, heterosexual males, and that’s certainly a drag if you’re
in that broad category…but as they take down everyone in their way to power,
they establish rules, and these ridiculous precedents eventually create a
system which collapses when they start pointing fingers at each other.
The time of this
eventual self-destruction came close recently, at a school notorious for just
about everything but education, NYU. I hardly know where to begin even
describing the mess:
Every version of
the story has its own spin, but the heart of the matter is a lesbian professor
exchanged some fairly personal e-mail with a male homosexual student, who
somehow interpreted the communications as sexual harassment.
Me: “You look quite made up today.”
--a student walked into class late, making a
bit of a show of it. She was wearing a significant amount
of makeup. Yes, I was investigated for sexual harassment based on this one
comment. Admin could have destroyed me over this, but at the time I was playing
ball, and so received a pass.
Fair disclosure:
I’ve been accused of sexual harassment as described in detail above. Yes,
sexual harassment is a real thing, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to set up
whole fiefdoms to search for it, as everyone’s job in that fiefdom is to find
it to get rid of enemies of the system, or to cover it up for friends of the
system.
Is the professor
here a friend, or enemy, of the system?
Avital Ronnell, a leading professor of feminist
philosophy…
Hmm, yeah, I’m leaning towards “friend”
based on that description. Now, is the accuser a friend, or enemy, of the
system?
Ronnell identifies as a lesbian; the student she is
accused of harassing is gay, and now married to another man.
And here we bump
into the problem with using identity politics to determine guilt, or innocence.
Instead of using politics, we have to use permitted rules of engagement…rules
which have been established through a convoluted series of arbitrary
precedents.
What kind of
claims are we talking about here?
The accuser, Nimrod Reitman, claimed that Ronnell
pressured him into an amorous relationship. She would visit him at his home,
climb into bed with him, and force him to kiss and touch her.
The whole “me too”
movement says you need to always believe the accusers first, but I have to
concede, considering the claimed sexual proclivities of the people involved, those
are some extraordinary allegations. We’ll be wanting some evidence, right?
Well, there are numerous e-mails, and a few snippets below:
"I woke up with a slight fever and sore
throat," she wrote in an email on June 16, 2012, after the Paris trip.
"I will try very hard not to kiss you — until the throat situation
receives security clearance. This is not an easy deferral!" In July, she
wrote a short email to him: "time for your midday kiss. my image during
meditation: we're on the sofa, your head on my lap, stroking you [sic]
forehead, playing softly with yr hair, soothing you, headache gone. Yes?"
Feminists came
out in support of the professor in an amazing display of hypocrisy, but ultimately
between the accusations, the evidence, and the political climate, there was
only one outcome which would be “fair” based on precedent:
“…has been forced to take a year off after NYU determined
that she had sexually harassed a male student. “
I imagine it’s
with pay, but still we at least have a slap on the wrist, right? When white
males get nailed with these charges, they get their lives entirely destroyed.
I’m glad we’re now establishing a precedent that even with very strong
evidence, no real harm will come to the aggressor.
Turns out,
there’s more to it than the slap on the wrist. He’s bringing a lawsuit against
her, because he says the affair impacted his ability to find a job despite his
being gay (and, presumably, his associated Ph.D.). She has a
defense planned:
“…said that her
relationship with him was not sexual and that affectionate emails they
exchanged were just "gay-coded" correspondence…”
Hmm, it was all
code? That’s…going to be a tough precedent. Imagine if this actually works,
you’ll never be able to establish a sexual harassment case again, as all
written evidence can be passed off as “code.”
I’m dying to see
the feminists come out and chastise the professor for trying this defense,
every bit as laughable as the “I was just joking” defense. More accurately,
I’ll likely be dead (as well as several generations past me) before these
notoriously hypocritical folk act with some level of honesty here.
She also said her messages were reciprocated. In her
statement, she included several purported excerpts of their emails, in which
she alleges Reitman referred to her as "beloved and special one,"
''Baby" and "Sweet Beloved."
Ah, the “she
wanted it, too” defense, which likewise never works when a male is the aggressor.
It really will be delightful to see if the professor gets ultimately destroyed,
or if all the defenses like “I was just joking” and so on are suddenly valid
again.
Either way, the
system will have check-mated itself.
It really is
interesting how the media presents this professor with words like “prominent,”
“world-renowned,” and “leading,” adjectives which sure never seem to come up
when enemies of the system face such charges.
I concede that
the system didn’t collapse under the weight of its hypocrisy at this point in
time, but I still believe one more log has been placed upon it. Sooner or
later, there’ll be no choice but for a mass awakening and widespread
realization that identity politics simply isn’t a way to run a campus…or anything
else.
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