By Professor Doom
In our “criminal
justice” system, being convicted of a sex crime is a permanent mark of shame.
Lay hands on a girl one day shy of her 18th birthday, or equally molest
an infant, and forever more you’re branded a “sexual predator,” and your
neighbors are notified as such whenever you move. That label is really, really,
broad, and as much I respect people should have some warning, the range of
crimes it covers is too ridiculous for the warning to serve well.
On campus, because
our Poo-Bahs running the places have a disturbing tendency to cover up such
crimes, a large family of laws called “Title IX” was enacted to try to cut
down, just a little, the cover-ups of campus sex crimes. There are actually a
huge number of rules here beyond governing sexual misconduct, such as how to
handle disabilities and how to spend money on various sports teams, among much
minutia. Much as “sexual predator” is a bit over-used, “Title IX violator” could
well mean a serial rapist on campus…or someone who had a minor discrepancy in
accounting between the men’s and women’s track teams.
It can also be an
autistic kid who asked for a “fist bump” in celebration over some minor
achievement (a fist bump is a momentary touching of the closed hands of two
participants, comparable to a “high 5” and certainly less invasive than a
handshake).
Overall, Title IX
is a misguided attempt to force the plunderers running a campus to act with
integrity. You really can’t legislate integrity, and so the plunderers used
Title IX to the establish huge fiefdoms on campus, filled with grotesquely
overpaid bureaucrats whose very job depends on finding ever more violations
leading to more Title IX “convictions.” How’s that working out?
The student, who has autism, cerebral
palsy and a shunt to relieve fluid pressure on his brain, was not allowed to
defend himself against allegations in two Title IX investigations this past
fall, …
As I’ve mentioned before, campuses have a
kangaroo court system, so a target of this system being unable to defend
himself is quite common. And, of course, convictions are pretty reliable.
What’s really funny here is Title IX is
supposed to protect the disabled from unfair treatment. Every semester I am
given multiple forms asking for various accommodations, which I grant, as per
this federal law. So what’s funny?
Though he receives academic accommodations for his
disabilities, he was not offered accommodations in the Title IX process,
So, the
law to establish integrity grants the kid the academic accommodations he would
already get in a system with integrity…but gives him no quarter when targeted
by that law, because the system has no integrity. Good thing we have all those
bureaucrats, eh?
The first incident occurred in the first week of September
when Marcus was in the Student Services office and asked a female student
working there if he could “fist bump” her. She agreed but soon filed a Title IX
complaint.
Now, she “agreed” to momentarily touch
knuckles, probably because the kid had just successfully completed one of the
little tasks you must complete in the beginning of the school year.
Before Title IX, the female student worker
could complain, but her superior would think “the worker did it willingly, and
it was just a fist bump,” and tell the worker that this is just the sort of
very minor annoyance you might experience when dealing with a customer. Then
the matter would end, and the worker would go back to work. With Title IX, well now the superior must
report this “inappropriate behavior” to the Title IX fiefdom. Past this point,
the kid was doomed.
College staff present at the October meeting had Marcus sign
an informal resolution of sexual harassment and told him not to have contact
with the female student, according to Aurora.
And now the kid is officially a sexual
harasser. For a fist bump.
Now, the kid has serious issues, and is
often accompanied by an assistant.
Marcus was involved
with the college’s musical theater program, and wanted to ask a female student
in the program if he could take a selfie with her…assistant approved him asking
the question, and the female student said yes.
The assistant probably made a bit of a
mistake here, but we do have evidence nothing untoward happened:
It shows Marcus halfway out of the
frame, with his arm extended and his hand behind the female student’s head.
She’s seated and smiling.
So…big deal. Sadly, the student decided to
complain:
According to a charge letter dated Dec. 1, the student
reported the incident as sexual harassment, claiming that Marcus “forcefully
placed [his] hand on her shoulder while taking a selfie with her.”
So, you have witnesses, photographic
evidence…surely Title IX would let this one slide, right?
“…they
weren’t allowed to present evidence, …”
I reiterate: these Title IX departments
are all about convictions, and I have much inside knowledge of just how
kangaroo these court systems are. Having seen these course destroy evidence
provided by the defendant (in order to facilitate the conviction), I guess not
accepting the evidence in the first place is better than average here.
Marcus was found responsible and suspended,
Yeah, no kidding. Now, the kid has
numerous issues and isn’t doing so well, academically…I respect him trying,
however. On the other hand, it’s very clear the college doesn’t want him on
campus and he should probably go to another school. Too bad those “sexual
harassment” violations will follow him to any other school, and might well
preclude him being admitted.
I feel the need to point out the issue
here isn’t merely the Title IX fiefdom simply exploiting this kid as an easy
mark, because there is something else one-sided about all this. If the roles
were reversed, the male would end up being punished by being forced to attend
mandatory sexual harassment training…but at no point will there be any talk of
forcing the females here to attend mandatory autism sensitivity training. Hmm.
But hey, at least all those Title IX
investigators will keep getting $100,000 a year for all their fine work, so
that’s something.
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