Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Has a Strange Way of Showing Concern for Campus Rape
It loos like senator Kirsten Gillibrand has taken up campus rape as an issue. Perhaps she should think about how she shows support.
KC Johnson of Minding the Campus reports. Hat tip to Instapundit.
Shame On Gillibrand
Apart from Claire McCaskill, no senator has more aggressively advocated weakening due process protections for students accused of sexual assault than New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand. She continued her anti-due process crusade in two high-profile moves this week.
First, Gillibrand invited Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz as her special guest for the State of the Union address. Sulkowicz has attracted international media attention for her “performance art” project of carrying a mattress around campus to protest what she considers Columbia’s insufficient response to a student she claims sexually assaulted her. No evidence exists that the student did, in fact, sexually assault her: even under Columbia’s extraordinarily imbalanced sexual assault policy, which tilts nearly all procedures in the advantage of the accusing student, the disciplinary panel didn’t find Sulkowicz’s allegation credible. Why Gillibrand came to believe Sulkowicz remains unclear.
It’s also unclear what message Gillibrand intended to send in selecting Sulkowicz, whose approach to criminal justice issues appears to be precisely what members of Congress should not encourage. Sulkowicz found the time to speak about her experiences with MTV, the Guardian, a local TV station, and several other media sources—but she wasn’t able to spare the time to follow through with the police about her complaint.
Comments
Gillibrand must be defeated. Anyone who attempts to remove the basic rights of any citizen must be sent back home. In her case, to washing floors and cooking — these are probably the only things she is competent to do.
I looked and would really like to read a summary of the “case” brought by Sulkowicz so I can see how good or bad the case was.
That said – the one sided treatment of her and HER VICTIM since pisses me off.
Imagine (totally making this up out of whole cloth) – if she had produced a “ripped” piece of lingerie as proof, proof that later proved she lied (no idea how – just go with me for a sec) and was carrying it around and making her life miserable … does anyone doubt the university would not squash him in a minute for “creating a hostile atmosphere”?
Again – need to see the fact in the “case”, so I can intelligently discuss it.