He’s lucky. Rainford could be laying face down in a ditch with a bullet in his head.
Another victim of the seriousness of the charges only going one way.
The Church may not approve of his comments and questions, but I certainly do. I wonder if he has any interest in running for office, he is not afraid to speak the truth. We need more of that.
” . . . demonstrated a lack of sensitivity to the victim.”
As suggested by the article, and the comment above, the use of the term “victim” prejudices any statement using it. Balsey-Ford was only the “victim” if her case was proven, or at the very least, substantiated by available evidence, which of course it wasn’t.
I was involved in the formulation of harassment policy for the entity I once worked for, and I absolutely insisted that in every instance in which the term “victim” was used the term “accuser” replace it. One point of the policy was to establish procedures for determining the validity of accusations of sexual harassment - if you start out by referring to the accusers as “victims”, you’ve essentially already done that.
The American education-industrial complex, a complete leftist echo-chamber and bubble, funded by massive spending and massive debt, has claimed another victim.
I can’t believe no politician is grasping this issue.
He’s lucky. Rainford could be laying face down in a ditch with a bullet in his head.
When I was in college 50 years ago, all matter of free speech was encouraged and allowed. It was, after all, a place of learning and probing of young minds for new awareness.
Today, however, it is a completely different picture. Any speech, language, social media comments, tweets or casual conversation with a classmate, can "trigger" offended "victims" to protest, demand ousters, firings and their own, private safe spaces to withdraw from the evil, bad world of speech they don't like (or are taught they shouldn't like, as in conservative views).
And, of course, the weak-kneed administrators of these institutions of propagandized learning, buckle and give-in at the slightest hint of protest or offense taken by just a few students but sometimes of only one person complaining.
The tragedy about this is that these training grounds for "victims", "haters" and "offended ones" will be the ultimate downfall of our country.
If you teach young people to hate their country and it's values, then who among them will stand up and step forward to defend that country when the time warrants it? None.
Until we get a handle on this zombiafication of our young people in our schools and universities by the radical, political far Left, we will continue to slide into chaos and division.
I place the blame at the feet of the democRATS and their liberal followers.
The Left immediately presented this Ford gal as "the victim" even though she was making unsubstantiated, unproven allegations about something that supposedly happened 40 years ago.
In our society and system of justice, you're not a victim of anything unless you can make a factual case for the accused perpetrator to, at the least, be arrested and charged with a crime. If they are ultimately proven innocent of any wrongdoing, the "victim" status disappears.
But the democRATS automatically assign "victim" status to those they need to make their case. It's part of their liberal modus operandi that everybody in their base is considered a "victim" of something that the Republicans are doing to them.
Ford is a "victim" alright but it wasn't at the hands of the accused Kavanaugh. The allegations against him were never proven and he was confirmed.
What she is a "victim" of, is the democRATS using her for there own political ends, without any "sensitivity" towards this woman's obvious unstable mental state. Wad her up and throw her away afterwards. Think Cindy Sheehan. Or Sandra Fluke.
Or rather, after she has raked in a big stash of free cash from a Go-Fund effort. Didn't cost the democRATS anything to pay back Ford for coming forward to embarrass herself and the country. Their base paid the woman for her theatrics with their own donations. Clever.
He was born in 65. She was born in 66.
Is the Truth no longer welcomed in academia?
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It wasn’t the actual tweets that were the issue. It was that they showed that he was not a militant Leftist AND had a position of power in academia. THAT was what was unacceptable.
You can contact the President of Catholic University here: http://president.cua.edu/staff/index.cfm
These are emails and phone numbers to his Chief of Staff on down, but if enough well thought out and argued rebuttals reach them perhaps they’ll see that they weren’t correct, either.