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Andrew Cuomo’s Lynching Law

Posted on | September 19, 2020 | 2 Comments

Before he became infamous for killing Grandma, the Democratic governor of New York signed into law an “affirmative consent” policy (a/k/a “Yes Means Yes”) that applies only to university campuses. Anyone familiar with human nature could predict that this law would produce disastrous consequences, because (a) college girls get drunk, (b) drunk girls do embarrassing things, and (b) the next morning they regret the stuff they did when they were drunk. This scenario accounts for perhaps 90% of all campus “sexual assault” accusations and, even if we can’t hold guys blameless in such incidents, the difficulty is determining guilt in a “he-said/she-said” situation where both participants are usually drunker than the proverbial skunk. And then there’s this:

University suspended black student
for a year because drunk white girl
kissed him: lawsuit

Do we really need to discuss the details of this case at New York’s Long Island University or should we just blame Gov. Cuomo?

LIU’s bias is institutionalized in its Sexual Violence and Harassment Policy’s Students’ Bill of Rights, which “shockingly” limits protections to only “reporting individuals” — those who allege violations, according to the suit.
This is despite the policy’s explicit promise of several rights for “all” students, including the presumption of innocence for accused students, “right to make an impact statement” on the cusp of sanctions and “equal opportunity” to present witnesses and evidence. John [Doe, the lawsuit plaintiff] claims he was afforded none of these.
The policy does, however, reflect New York’s affirmative consent law: “both evince a surface-level refusal to recognize uniform rights for the accuser and the accused.” Signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the statute has an “inherent bias” because it requires colleges to predetermine that any accuser “is at fault … or should have acted in a different manner to avoid” violations that have not been proven, John says.

As I understand the complaint in the lawsuit, the drunk white girl, “Jane Roe,” wanted John Doe, a member of the LIU football team, to fulfill her Mandingo fantasies, and he rejected her advances. No sexual activity between them actually took place, according to the lawsuit. However, Jane’s drunken would-be snowbunny act was witnessed by several of their fellow students and Jane, who had a boyfriend, was worried that reports of her behavior would jeopardize her “committed relationship.” So she invented the “sexual assault” accusation to make herself look like a victim, when in fact she was the aggressor. Or at least this is what the lawsuit says happened, and who am I to say otherwise?

This is the problem with the “affirmative consent” standard, as a practical matter involving college girls, most of them teenagers, who get themselves into bad situations and then claim victimhood. The Democrats who enacted this foolish New York law are now probably shocked to discover the potential for racial discrimination in such cases. Of course, this was entirely predictable, if you knew anything at all about human nature, and the kind of girls who attend Long Island University.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)




 

Category: Education, New York

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    […] Andrew Cuomo’s Lynching Law Before he became infamous for killing Grandma, the Democratic governor of New York signed into law an “affirmative consent” policy (a/k/a “Yes Means Yes”) that applies only to university campuses. Anyone familiar with human nature could predict that this law would produce disastrous consequences, because (a) college girls get drunk, (b) drunk girls do embarrassing things, and (b) the next morning they regret the stuff they did when they were drunk. This scenario accounts for perhaps 90% of all campus “sexual assault” accusations and, even if we can’t hold guys blameless in such incidents, the difficulty is determining guilt in a “he-said/she-said” situation where both participants are usually drunker than the proverbial skunk. […]