Are men on college campuses entitled to equal justice under law?
The letter below was published in The Hill on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D.
Following President Trump’s February executive order, the Department of Education has been reviewing regulations and guidance to make sure that they “adequately protect students.” Men on college and university campuses are students too, and they greatly need protection from the regulations and guidance of the Obama-era Office for Civil Rights, which remain in force at this writing. Campus drinking is a problem, but it is not the most serious problem (“Trump education official: Parties usually ‘both drunk’ in campus sexual assault cases,” July 12, 2017). Here is the most serious problem.
The situation regarding anything even remotely sexual on college and university campuses today is entirely controlled by ideologues steeped in former President Barack Obama identity and sexual politics. Those who caused the current situation to exist are “true believers” who must be replaced by centrists open to evidence and reason.
It is time to end the illegal practices of the campus kangaroo courts for allegations of sexual assault which were mandated by Obama’s Office for Civil Rights. These regulations and guidance required colleges and universities to always believe the victim and deny all due process rights to the accused, including the right to an attorney, the right of access to all evidence, the right to cross-examine and to have a standard of evidence for conviction consistent with the consequences for the accused of being found guilty.
The take-home message for the Office for Civil Rights and its current head, Candice Jackson, is straightforward. On campus, both men and women must be entitled to justice as per the words engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court: Equal Justice Under Law.
The current injustices of the campus kangaroo courts can be corrected with a simple administrative stroke of the pen and the elimination of the ideological campus sex bureaucracies.
From Gordon Finley, Ph.D., professor of psychology emeritus, Florida International University, Miami, Fla.
As I see it, our tactical challenge in this instance is how to neutralize the feminist spread of their false narrative throughout the media nationwide. They already have a vast infrastructure for disseminating their half-truths and outright lies to the general public, and for censoring the truth and silencing us. Their people are in place, the same folks whose shirt-rending and gnashing of teeth laid the groundwork for the Dear Colleague letter in the first place. For example, take this guest editorial in a daily paper with a circulation of about 1 million:
“Teaching DeVos about campus rape”
And more ominously, they’ve parlayed their position of being able to orchestrate a series of demonstration to intimidate DeVos merely for listening to our side. After hearing both sides one day, she was bullied into giving the fems another full day for their tear-laden testimonies.
Whether we can counter all, and justice prevail, is at least daunting — don’t expect politicians to martyr themselves supporting us — but prevail we must.
As I see it, the tactical problem is how to counter the feminists’ spreading of their false narrative nationwide through the media. They already have a vast infrastructure to disseminate their lies to the general public while censoring the truth. For instance, consider this [lyin’ ass] guest editorial in a newspaper with a daily circulation of about 1 million:
“Teaching DeVos about campus rape”
In addition, they’re in a position to intimidate DeVos with a series of orchestrated demonstrations merely for listening to our side. After listening to both sides, she was bullied into giving the fems a full day exclusively for their testimony. Short of massive recruitment and organization, I don’t see how our skirmishing will prevail…though we must keep trying with what we have.