How does someone reason themselves into a position of "Trump is anathema to me" while also supporting the rules put in place during his administration? That's how arguments shift from principles to principals, with the latter far too often have outsized importance. When court rulings line up with Trump policies and the interview subject describes those outcomes as "common sense," then sorry, but Trump as anathema no longer applies. Beyond that, not every single issue in the country has to be considered through the prism of Orange McBadman.
It is almost stereotypical that the case she chose to participate in involved a black suspect and white accuser. Why that one? The point here is not race or gender; it's first having campus kangaroo courts attempt to adjudicate matters of law enforcement and criminal justice, and second, campus policies in which regret has become tantamount to rape. Sometimes, two drunken college students having sex is just that. When it's more than that, you call the cops.
Universities have become poisoned almost to the point of no redemption. It's sad. My father was an academic back in the day when professors taught the subjects in which they had knowledge. The student's job was to learn the material and the adults ran the campus. Today, a transient student community has been empowered to believe that it has run of the place and can have permanent staff members fired over specious complaints.
If progressives were that concerned about civil liberties, they'd be all over the campus scene defending professors and others who are attacked by petulant overgrown children, and they would have something to say about consent policies that attempt to govern relationships between students, and they would wonder how the faculty can tilt so far to one side. But they're not. If they were, then this case would not be the subject of an interview. It would not be the outlier that it is.
How does someone reason themselves into a position of "Trump is anathema to me" while also supporting the rules put in place during his administration? That's how arguments shift from principles to principals, with the latter far too often have outsized importance. When court rulings line up with Trump policies and the interview subject describes those outcomes as "common sense," then sorry, but Trump as anathema no longer applies. Beyond that, not every single issue in the country has to be considered through the prism of Orange McBadman.
It is almost stereotypical that the case she chose to participate in involved a black suspect and white accuser. Why that one? The point here is not race or gender; it's first having campus kangaroo courts attempt to adjudicate matters of law enforcement and criminal justice, and second, campus policies in which regret has become tantamount to rape. Sometimes, two drunken college students having sex is just that. When it's more than that, you call the cops.
Universities have become poisoned almost to the point of no redemption. It's sad. My father was an academic back in the day when professors taught the subjects in which they had knowledge. The student's job was to learn the material and the adults ran the campus. Today, a transient student community has been empowered to believe that it has run of the place and can have permanent staff members fired over specious complaints.
If progressives were that concerned about civil liberties, they'd be all over the campus scene defending professors and others who are attacked by petulant overgrown children, and they would have something to say about consent policies that attempt to govern relationships between students, and they would wonder how the faculty can tilt so far to one side. But they're not. If they were, then this case would not be the subject of an interview. It would not be the outlier that it is.