KC Johnson of Minding The Campus reports on a situation at Occidental College where students and faculty have joined forces in rape culture activism and a BuzzFeed report which made things worse.

Irrational ‘Rape Culture’ Activism at Occidental and BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed is uncritically fascinated with “rape culture.” Combine that with Occidental, a college where a male student can be branded a rapist even if his partner says “yes,” and the result is an article by Jessica Testa. Her BuzzFeed article, which reads as if it comes from the Onion, provides an unintentional commentary into how far from reality many campus “activists” now are.

A quick refresher: despite campus policies that are overwhelmingly tilted against students accused of sexual assault, campus “activists” (students and faculty) filed a Title IX claim against the college–with the help of celebrity attorney Gloria Allred. Fawning press coverage followed, with reporters repeatedly ignoring Occidental’s actual procedures and describing the accusers (none of whom had even filed police reports) as “victims” or “survivors.” The charade appeared to have ended on March 14, when the Los Angeles Times announced that one of its reporters on the case,  Jason Felch, had been involved in an unrevealed romantic relationship with one of the faculty complainers, and had described minor incidents (such as inappropriate text messages) as unreported sexual assaults The Times then fired Felch.

But anyone who thought the case had concluded doesn’t follow higher education, where “activists” rarely, if ever, concede defeat. The result was a lengthy article by Testa, in which the BuzzFeed reporter uncritically passed along paranoid, borderline delusional, assertions by Occidental faculty members involved in the Title IX fight.

Read it all at the link below.