Laura Dunn Is an Evil Liar

Posted on | January 29, 2018 | Comments Off on Laura Dunn Is an Evil Liar

When she was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin in 2004, Laura Dunn got drunk and had a ménage à trois with two guys. More than a year later, she decided she was a rape victim and filed a complaint with the university, and also reported the alleged rape to the campus police:

The investigation did not go well for Dunn. Because she reported the assault nearly a year-and-a-half after the event, one of the men had already graduated. The other insisted the encounter had been consensual, and since there were no witnesses or evidence, both the police and the university dropped the case. . . .
[Dunn] filed a Title IX sexual discrimination complaint with the [federal Education Department’s] Office for Civil Rights. Dunn accused the University of Wisconsin of multiple violations, including subjecting her to a hostile environment and failing to provide a “prompt and equitable resolution” of her case.
But in 2008, four years after the original incident, she received an 18-page letter from the Department of Education with the verdict: “Based on its investigation, OCR determined that there is insufficient evidence to substantiate the allegations made in the complaint.”

If you haven’t yet read Christina Hoff Sommers’ account of this case, read the whole thing now, because it is central to understanding why and how the Obama administration effectively abolished due-process protections for university students accused of sexual misconduct. Dunn’s story was featured in a 2010 National Public Radio report that portrayed her as a trustworthy and sympathetic victim. The NPR story inspired the infamous 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter to U.S. universities that was interpreted as a mandate to impose extreme policies that in effect denied due-process to accused students, so that any accusation of sexual misconduct was treated as tantamount to proof of guilt.

All because Laura Dunn was a drunk teenage slut. Excuse me if I seem a bit judgmental, but didn’t I just tell you to read the whole story?

Dunn agreed to make her records public as a condition of being a part of the NPR/CPI investigation. The 18-page letter (PDF) she received from the OCR is publicly available. It gives a detailed summary of notes taken by University of Wisconsin deans as well as the local police detective. As freelance reporter Derek Rose has pointed out, it tells a very different story from the one we heard from [Joseph] Shapiro on NPR’s Morning Edition or from the [Center for Public Integrity] report.
To wit: When Dunn first spoke to the dean (15 months after the alleged rape), she said that “a portion of the sexual encounter was consensual.” (p.5) A few days later when she spoke to a campus police detective, Dunn said twice that she did not remember being raped by one of the men (the one still on campus). She found out about it only when the men told her what happened the next day (p.6). She also told the detective that in the months after the alleged rape that she went — twice — to one of the men’s residence, where they engaged in consensual “physical contact.”
On one of these occasions both of the alleged assailants were at the apartment and they all watched television together. (p.6) None of these details were mentioned in the NPR/CPI report.

Simple question: How can Laura Dunn know she was raped if, the morning after, she couldn’t even remember what happened? This is where it is necessary to explain the difference between “passed-out” drunk and “blackout” drunk. If you get so drunk you pass out, and someone sexually molests you while your are unconscious, obviously that’s a crime. But that’s different from “blackout” drunk, a term describes how alcohols impairs your memory of what you did when you were extremely drunk. Anyone who has ever gotten extremely drunk is familiar with this phenomenon. Thursday night, a college boy goes to a frat party, gets totally hammered and wakes up Friday morning in some random girl’s bed, not knowing where he is or how he got there. His memory of Thursday night is a blur, and he may not even remember the name of the girl he’s with. As to whatever sexual activity they engaged in, this is likewise lost in the alcoholic blur, and this kind of “blackout” drunk sex happens routinely on college campuses.

Or at least, that’s how it used to happen, back when feminism meant that women were believed to be responsible for their own sexual behavior, rather than being helpless victims of “heteropatriarchy.” Nowadays, when a college boy and a college girl get drunk and hook up, this is automatically considered sexual assault, because being drunk negates consent. The drunk girl is a victim, and the drunk boy is a rapist — even if both of them were so drunk they barely remember anything.

This is a problem inherent to so many “he-said/she-said” incidents on campus that result in sexual assault complaints. It is hardly controversial to say drunk teenagers behave irresponsibly, but the effect of policies implemented pursuant to the “Dear Colleague” letter is to say that drunk teenage girls have no responsibility for their behavior, while drunk teenage boys bear 100% responsibility. All it takes is for the girl to experience morning-after regret — even if it’s more than a year later — and the male student finds himself caught in the machinery of campus disciplinary proceedings where he is deprived of the due-process protections that any common criminal would have in a court of law.

Under the Trump administration, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has repudiated the “Dear Colleague” letter and acted to restore some semblance of fairness in the treatment of sexual misconduct claims, and guess what? Laura Dunn has filed a federal lawsuit objecting to this:

Laura Dunn, a victim of sexual assault while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is taking a strong stand to protect students who come forward to report their own experiences of sexual misconduct on campus.
Dunn went on to earn a law degree and create SurvJustice, a nonprofit that has helped scores of college women report sexual assaults. She also worked with Vice President Joe Biden to craft laws and guidance for universities that protected victims and improved campus sexual assault investigations. . . .
On Thursday, Dunn’s SurvJustice and two other women’s rights organizations filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the Department of Education and Candice Jackson, acting assistant secretary for civil rights.
The suit, according to the plaintiffs, is an attempt to strike down the Trump administration’s unconstitutional Title IX policy harming student survivors of sexual violence and harassment. . . .

You can read the whole thing, if you can stomach the shameless bias. First of all, contrary to what this article says, every investigation of Dunn’s complaint has failed to find evidence that she was ever “a victim of sexual assault.” Second, there is nothing “unconstitutional” about the Trump administration’s policy, nor is there any reason to believe that this policy is “harming student survivors.” Most importantly, notice that this lawsuit is being filed in the Northern District of California, where nearly all the judges are liberals appointed during the Clinton or Obama administrations, and where any appeal of their ruling will go to the ultra-liberal 9th Circuit. What the plaintiffs are clearly seeking is for the district court to issue an injunction to block DeVos’s authority, with no hope to reverse this without taking the case all the way to the Supreme Court, a process that could take years. Why? Because drunk sluts now believe they have a “right” to punish any guy they hook up with when they’re drunk. This punitive regime is necessary for women like Laura Dunn, enabling their belief that they’re victims of “heteropatriarchy,” instead of having to accept the ugly truth about their own immoral behavior.

Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 01.29.18

Posted on | January 29, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.29.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sabo Strikes Again At The Grammys, also, 12 Strong – A Movie Review
Twitchy: Actor Don Cheadle Slammed For Sexist Swipe At Nikki Haley
Louder With Crowder: Political Stunts At Grammys Backfire Bigly, Ratings Tank Hard
Architectural Digest: Amazon’s Alexa Now A Feminist

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
American Power: The Hateful Ideology And Rhetoric Of Homosexual Rights, also, Indian Slavery
American Thinker: Obama, Leader Of The Deep State Coup
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Enough Freaking Out Over Trump’s DACA Proposal, also, Jordan Peterson Interview Take Two
BLACKFIVE: Ward Larsen, Cutting Edge
Bring The HEAT: Aerial Delivery Of Naval Mines
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Leaving Behind Our Shore Line In Space, also, The Black And The White SOTU Rebuttals
Don Surber: Trump’s Plan To Scuttle DACA, also, Millionaires Plan People’s State Of The Union Speech
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Man’s Inhumanity To Dog
The Geller Report: Shocking! One In Eight Swedish Women Will Be Raped, also, The Urgent Case For Antitrust Legislation Against Facebook & Google
Hogewash: Another One Bites The Dust, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Major Campaign Donor Secretly Pleads Guilty To Bribing Mayor DiBlasio, also, Crumbs! Dimwit Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Says “I’m Not Sure $1000 Goes Very Far For Anyone”
Joe For America: California HS Teacher Disparages Military – “The Lowest of The Low”
JustOneMinute: Breakthrough Health Advice
Legal Insurrection: Nikki Haley Is All Of Us – Says Artists Reading Fire & Fury Killed The Grammys, also, FBI Deputy Director McCabe On Leave Until Retirement In March
Power Line: Are The Democrats Fighting A Civil War? also, Disinformation Democrat Style
Shark Tank: Democrats Fail Immigrants With Their “Rent-A-Rican” and “Papaya Politics”
Shot In The Dark: Culture Police Blotter
STUMP: Memory Monday – Last Week of January 1918
The Jawa Report: Attention Twitter Luser @khadim3322102
The Political Hat: Euthanasia Is Built On A Lie
This Ain’t Hell: Peter Maass Says It’s Time To Wage War Against War Movies That Glorify Outdated Models Of Masculinity, also, Manning For Senate – #WeGotThis
Victory Girls: You Can Have My Meat When You Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands, also, Are Fitness Apps Highlighting US Bases?
Megan McArdle: Ode To A Washing Machine
Mark Steyn: Lurid Grooviness, also, The Grammy Hall of Lame

Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Monday: Winter Pinups

Posted on | January 29, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It’s been a pretty rough winter for most of the country; why, even here in Las Vegas the temperatures have gotten close to freezing a couple of times this past month. Seems appropriate then, to indulge in a little artistic liberty with Gil Elvgren, who brings us a girl and her penguins.
Insert the standard disclaimer here; I’m in a bit of a rush this morning.

A girl and her penguins out enjoying the cold.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #146, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism presents Rule Five Video Game Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Squirrel (Girl) Appreciation Day, Abby “Grace” Nierman, Long Red Hair, Friday Rule 5, Happy Australia Day, National Chocolate Cake Day, Hillary Hypocrisy, Nicole Eggert, and Sabo Strikes Again At The Grammys.

A View From The Beach brings us Kerry-Lee Cousins, Is Sea Level Rise Turning Sewage into Beer?, It Takes All Kinds …, #FightFor$15: WSU SJW Scabs Charge Below Scale for Whinging About Halloween Costumes, She’ll Never Work in Hollywood Again, “Talking Body”, Tramps On a Train and #NotHerToo: Brigit Bardot Skeptical

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Patricia De León, his Vintage Babe is Goldie Hawn, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Valisere. At Dustbury, it’s Garfunkel and Oates, otherwise known as Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Amazon Fashion – Jewelry For Women
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Category: Rule 5

SPLC Targets College Conservatives

Posted on | January 29, 2018 | 1 Comment

Toni Airaksinen reports at Campus Reform:

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) now boasts of student-led chapters at more than 100 colleges and universities across the United States.
The SPLC on Campus program, founded in 2011, encourages students to start clubs to advance the SPLC’s agenda by fighting “hate and extremists groups” and promoting an “atmosphere of acceptance and respect” within their campus community.
The organization now claims to have a presence at more than 100 colleges and universities, including the University of Northern Colorado, Florida Atlantic University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and many more, according to a map on its website.
Chapters are encouraged to promote the SPLC’s guidebooks, such as the “Alt-right on Campus: What Students Need to Know,” and host events to fight “bias and bigotry” on campus.
All chapters are also required to agree to a set of terms and conditions to “further the SPLC’s goals by raising awareness of the growth and activities of hate and extremists groups.”

If you’re Christian or a Republican, you’re an “extremist,” according to the SPLC, which now wants to get your kids kicked out of college.

Category: Education

FMJRA 2.0: Nowhere – Now Here

Posted on | January 28, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Patriots Cheerleaders
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Hogwash, ESR
EBL

Replying To ESR’s Response
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Walk Away
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

A Jihad in Minnesota
EBL

‘A Reprobate Mind’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.22.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Transgender Dominatrix Speaks at Vancouver Women’s March
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Guys: Don’t Date Abby Nierman
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.23.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Deborah Frisch Yelled Anti-Asian Insults During Arrest, According to Police Report
EBL

Democrats in Disarray and Denial as Schumer Shutdown Exposes Weakness
EBL

Ursula LeGuin, RIP
EBL

In The Mailbox, 01.24.18
Proof Positive

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 01.25.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Trump Offers Amnesty Deal; Democrats Immediately Reject ‘Hardline’ Proposal
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.26.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Detroit Police Officer Dies

Posted on | January 28, 2018 | Comments Off on Detroit Police Officer Dies

Officer Glenn Doss (left); murder suspect Decharlos Brooks (right).

The Detroit News reports:

Officer Glenn Anthony Doss, the 25-year-old Detroit police officer shot while responding to a domestic violence call last week on the city’s east side, died Sunday, the police chief announced.
Chief James Craig said Doss, a who joined the force two years ago, died at 1 p.m. at Detroit Receiving Hospital.
“He fought a good fight. He is truly what we call one of Detroit’s finest. He is what we call an American hero. He did what we expect each and every officer to do: To go out and serve this community with distinction and honor. And he did that,” Craig said outside Detroit Receiving Hospital flanked by Doss’ family, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and City Council President Brenda Jones.
Duggan said Doss “was everything that is good about Detroit,” a young man with options, who “could’ve gone anywhere,” but instead stayed in Detroit and tried to make the city safer.
Duggan noted the dangers facing police in Detroit, saying “there’s never been a time it’s been more dangerous to be a Detroit police officer” than in the last year and a half. “There’s been more shootings of officers than I can ever remember,” Duggan said. “And yet the 2,500 men and women of this department go back out there every day.” . . .
On Saturday, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged Decharlos O. Brooks, 43, with eight counts of assault with intent to murder, seven counts of resisting and obstructing, one count of carrying a dangerous weapon and 17 counts of felony firearms. . . .
Police said Doss was among the officers responding to a 10:30 p.m. call Wednesday from someone believed to be Brooks in a domestic violence case at a home in the 5500 block of McDougall, near Interstate 94 and Chene Street.
As officers arrived, Brooks was outside of the home and allegedly fired at them with a weapon.

R.I.P., Officer Doss.

(Hat-tip: Michelle Malkin on Twitter.)

Category: Crime

A Seattle Lesbian Awakens From ‘Woke’

Posted on | January 28, 2018 | 1 Comment

Katie Herzog explains the catastrophic failure of the Left:

“Woke” — for those of you who don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter — indicates, roughly, that one is enlightened to the social causes of the day. You believe black lives matter (or you believe it enough to put a sign in the window of the palatial $1.5 million townhouse you just built in the Central District); you unequivocally support the #MeToo movement; and you would never, ever, ever, ever vote for Donald Trump (although you might vote for Jill Stein, which is basically the same thing). “Woke” may have entered internet consciousness in the last few years, but according to the invaluable internet resource Know Your Meme, “The earliest known instance of the ‘woke’ as slang for political or social awareness comes from an article in the New York Times Magazine. On May 20, 1962, the Times published a piece on white beatniks appropriating black culture by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley entitled ‘If You’re Woke, You Dig It.’” Woke, today, is still being appropriated by white people, plenty of whom will happily tell you, if you’re not woke, you’re trash . . . .
Progressives used to be able to handle dissent. The Democrats were the party of free speech and free thought. No more. Among far too many leftists, if you disagree, you are wrong. And if you are wrong, you are bad, and if you are bad, you are trash. . . .
You don’t learn much if everyone around you believes — or professes to believe — the exact same thing as you do, and if we don’t expose ourselves to a diversity of opinions, we are never going to get out our self-imposed echo chambers. These echo chambers didn’t just bring us President Donald Trump, they brought us a liberal establishment so unable to see and believe that other people actually liked the f–ker, that we all laughed at his candidacy instead of taking it as the very real threat that it was all along.
The world is falling apart around us, and we—liberals, progressive, leftists, whatever you want to call us—are too busy fighting with each other to actually do anything concrete about it, even though we agree on most of the big, important issues.

Herzog has awakened from “woke,” as it were, because she found herself attacked by her progressive comrades for Thoughtcrime. She has disagreed with transgender activists and defended Aziz Ansari, among other examples of her political incorrectness. Independent thinking by members of official victim groups — women, racial minorities, homosexuals — is dangerous to the Left because dissent undermines the identity-politics illusion of solidarity against the white heterosexual males who allegedly oppress everyone else. In the 21st century, belief in the pervasive evil of heterosexual white men has become the organizing principle of the Democrat Party, its raison d’être. To suggest to a Democrat in 2018 that perhaps this fathomless contempt for white males is misguided, or that not every member of an official victim group is suffering from oppression, is to commit a sort of political heresy, like denying the existence of witchcraft in 17th-century Salem.

Democrats have become vendors of ethnic outrage, gender resentment and economic envy, with no other commodity to provide voters in the political marketplace. Because everyone inside the cult of social justice is fanatically devoted to this zero-sum-game mentality, there is a constant competition among Democrats to strike a “more progressive than thou” posture and, as Professor Reynolds says, “when sanctimony is your only coin, people will try to accumulate it.” Sooner or later, however, intelligent people wise up to the hustle. After the defeat of Hillary Clinton, many who had cast their lot with the party of victimhood may realize how badly they have been hoodwinked and bamboozled.

Category: Democrats