Posted on 04/10/2015 6:32:54 PM PDT by moneyrunner
Stacy McCain has written an important article A Coven of Liars: Sabrina Rubin Erdley, Emily Renda and Catherine Lhamon that starts to connect a few of the dots that may help explain the why and wherefore of the UVA Rape Hoax. How did this thing get started, who facilitated it and who is even now trying to cover their tracks? Here are three dots:
The UVA rape hoax did not suddenly appear - ex nihilo - from the fevered fingers of Sabrina Rubin Erdely. She was looking for a story that would support her narrative of a campus "Rape Culture" and was pointed to "Jackie" by Emily Renda.
And who is Emily Renda?
She is a self described "rape survivor" who appeared before congress with Catherine Lhamon. But what evidence for that do we have? There is no evidence she filed a complaint with the university or the police. In fact, she's like "Jackie" except her story is less lurid.
Via K.C. Johnson: “Last July 8, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, a writer for Rolling Stone, telephoned Emily Renda, a rape survivor working on sexual-assault issues as a staff member at the University of Virginia.” So opens the Columbia Journalism School’s review of Rolling Stone’s retracted story about the University of Virginia. The piece confirms that it was Renda who informed Erdely about Jackie, the fabulist whose tale became the spine of the Rolling Stone article. Though the CJR labels Renda a “rape survivor,” she appears never to have filed a complaint with the university, much less with the police.
She testified before congress, claiming to have been raped and then recounted the story of "Jackie" who she identified as "Jenna" in her testimony. We already know that the story about "Jenna/Jackie" was false. So what reason do we have to believe that she was actually raped, as opposed to making up a story to give her "rape survivor authority?"
As for Jackie with Rolling Stone, for the CJR, Renda’s word about her status as a victim of crime is enough....
What Johnson is pointing out here is the circular logic of self-validating authority that the “rape survivor” Emily Renda presents as the crucial credential of her own expertise. Neither Rolling Stone nor the New York Times would dare question Renda’s authority, so that when Renda vouched for Jackie, this was like the Certified Rape Survivor Seal of Approval as far as Erdely and Rolling Stone were concerned. When it turned out Jackie was a liar, however, the New York Times cited Renda to criticize Erdely’s reporting. Yet it seems quite likely that Erdely never would have thought to make the University of Virginia the focus of her story, had it not been for Emily Renda’s Senate testimony about “Jenna”/Jackie getting gang-raped at a frat house.
Read the whole thing and you begin to question if the Obama administration, via Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary in the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights may not be using the feminist movement to create the whole "campus rape epidemic" as a political tool.
[UVA Dean of Students] Groves wrote that he was “one of the professionals vilified by name” in Erdely’s article. He claimed that Erdely completely mischaracterized remarks he made at a Sept. 2014 meeting with university trustees about sexual assault and that Lhamon disparaged him with comments she made to Erdely. . . McCain summarizes: Lhamon, Renda and Erdely are part of a coven of liars who have conspired to fabricate a crime that never happened in order to justify this ongoing “rape epidemic” hysteria. This dishonest campaign of purposeful falsehood is being orchestrated directly from the White House as part of a systematic effort to create regulations that deprive college students of their due-process rights.
Read the whole thing and then start to question what you think you know about the truth; whether anything is quite what it seems.
Prior to the twentieth century fraternities gathered students who already were advanced in their studies and put them together in housing that had advantages that were expensive at the time (such as extensive encyclopedias and small libraries) under rigorous supervision with the intention that they tutor one another and turn out exceptional scholarship.
You will need to read nineteenth century literature to get a feel for how this worked back when the system was a positive rather than a negative indicator of student quality.
TTIUWOP...
If there is a campus rape epidemic, there is a proven solution that worked for decades at most coed colleges:
1) Single sex dorms.
2) Chaperones at parties and house mothers in dorms and fraternity/sorority houses.
3) Dorm curfew, designated study hours, mandatory lights out.
4) Mandatory church service on Sunday
5) Death penalty for rape
Your IC is liberally coated with creme de minth?
Appertith....
Old skool.....
I would concur with frats being a nexus of academic mentoring. At lesser universities, not so much....)
I just want to know what the other thread was because it must be awesome.
I was in a seminar where I had to watch a video about abused women and then a “survivor” got up to talk. I lasted about 5 minutes until I asked the group whether this was a seminar to teach mediation or a support group. I got kicked out. Since I didn’t need the hours and I don’t get a government paycheck it didn’t matter.
That is not entirely true, for to get to that point there is an enemy which must be defeated first.
What is more fundamentally true is, taking cues from those whom would identify themselves as "progressive", responding and playing along with an already existing meme of "you didn't build that" aimed at men, and white males more in particular; ;
This dishonest campaign of purposeful falsehood is being orchestrated directly from the White House as part of a systematic effort to create regulations that deprive WHITE MALE college students of their due-process rights.
Other college students (as long as they are not white males) otherwise have due process rights almost intact, other than the generalized movement coming from "progressives" to shut down any form of dissent with themselves and their anti-American, statist agenda.
It's all part of the continuing fundamental transformation of this country that the crypto-muslim Marxist-in-chief (with pen and phone in hand -- if not golfing) openly promised us.
Make war, not love, on;
Christianity, and the principles & moral foundations found there, which once helped make the U.S. the beacon of freedom it once(?) represented.
All forms of dissent not in agreement with "progressive" (read--- stealthy, but still hard-core socialist/communist/statist) agenda
But I state the obvious.
Who stood up against the Wall Street bailouts?
The Tea Party folks -- that's who.
Who voices protest against the ever-worsening morals of this nation but first & foremost Christians?
Well, other than the muslims who point at how morally corrupt this nation can be, while themselves seeking to be the beneficiaries of what by-and-large, white Christian males built or else invented?
Who in the entire world stands most against the desire of (many? even most?) Muslims of the world to "wipe Israel off the map" and "march the Jews into the sea?" --- but those United States citizens who just happen to be white Evangelicals?
The white man, and white Christian (and any whom may dare agree with them , regardless of color, or sex) is obviously the problem!
Correct! - probably wrong thread - much as these ingredients delight, Hillary is still entirely unappetizing...
Correct you are good sir, you can not make perfection better.
Good for you....the PC police (media)thrive on intimidation to shut off your freedom of speech.
Maybe she IS “Jackie” — or more likely, “Jackie” doesn’t exist.
Dude...my first year my screename was “viligantcitizen”. The sad thing is...I knew dang well there is no such thing as a viligant....and was clueless to my mistake until it was pointed out to me.
So dont feel bad...you aint the first victim of a freeper brain fart.
Exactly what I was going to say, all this has its roots in the Obama White House. Most negative social meme is pushed from there. We are being taken down on all fronts.
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