Posted on 04/25/2015 3:09:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Twitchy yesterday reported on a lawsuit filed against Columbia University by Paul Nungesser, a student who claims the school has sided with the woman who accused him of rape, even though both school and law enforcement authorities rejected the case after interviews and investigation.
Since then, Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz has gained publicity in 35 countries by carrying a mattress with her wherever she goes on campus — an art project approved for college credit by visual arts professor Jon Kessler, who referred to the mattress in the Columbia Spectator as the site of Sulkowicz’ rape.
Whether the lawsuit determines if this is an example of a rape hoax or not, one high-profile supporter of Sulkowicz and her mattress project remains Democrat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who invited Sulkowicz to be her guest at January’s State of the Union Address, writing in the Huffington Post that the mattress symbolizes “the burden she carries every single day as long as her rapist is still on campus.” Much like Kessler, Gillibrand doesn’t bother with qualifiers like “alleged,” despite Nungesser neither being charged by police nor disciplined by the university.
The Daily Caller, which recently compiled stories of eight campus rape hoaxes, reports today that Gillibrand hopes such hoaxes shine “more of a spotlight on the problem” — not the problem of hoaxes, but the problem of sexual assault. Asked at the Women in the World Conference about rape hoaxes like Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s debunked account of a fraternity gang rape that was published and then retracted by Rolling Stone magazine, Gillibrand answers as if the assault actually happened.
The second post about nothing has happened but it might and it could and we have no suspects nor arrests but by golly SOMETHING'S going on !
Call me old fashioned but, that kind of "reasoning" -- isn't.
Who’s this “Kirsten” guy...some socialist from Norway?
I’m going to fake a haunting in my house to shine a spotlight on the Epidemic of haunting in my neighborhood
Gillebrand....NOT the brightest lamp in the chandelier.
Some serious competition for the previous and reigning queen imbecile of Congress, Debbie Stab-me-now (Stabenow), D-Outer Space, who knows that Gorebull Warming is real cause she can feel it when she flies in airplanes. [facepalm]
I think it would be hilarious and disarming to combine their attempts at creating a public nuisance.
For example, refer to this as the “Campus Rape Epidemic Road Rage”. Since the media driven “road rage” has long since become a trite hysteria, it casts light on the “campus rape epidemic” as being much of the same thing.
“Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand hopes rape hoaxes shine a spotlight on campus rape epidemic”
Really? An “epidemic” that apparently doesn’t exist?
Let’s note that the Colombia case, unlike the UVA case, remains in limbo. We don’t know and can never know for sure, whether a rape occurred.
All we know is that the university and legal system could not find sufficient evidence to pursue the case. That is simply NOT proof that a rape didn’t happen.
In a case like this, the classic “date-rape” scenario, both sides agree sex took place, differing only on whether it was consensual or not.
Would somebody please explain to me how it is, even in theory, possible to prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that a rape occurred in such a case?
she’s got slvt written all over her.
See? Hoaxes can be a GOOD thing, because....shinig a light and stuff!
After reading some of Emma’s social network posting it is obvious the the girl is an absolute tramp skank.
Hope her accuser takes her to the bank.
whoops, Meant the guy that the bimbo accused.
And the hoax that Democrat women are normal and can actually form a reasonable opinion somehow promotes them into office every two or four years. That is a glaring weakness in our system of government.
I hope "global warming" causes New York to be safely buried beneath a one mile thick cover of ice, like it was during the ice age. (If nobody can live in New York, they can't elect complete idiots to the Senate.)
Fake things cause people to believe it’s fake, that’s all. Her argument is like saying you hope that Santa Claus causes more people to become Christians.
There is an epidemic... of campus rape hoaxes.
There’s nothing like a hoax as the poster child for a non-existent problem.
I seem to recall a story about a little girl who cried wolf.
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