I agree with everything you’re saying, but from a practical point of view do the rights of alleged rapists to have a clean transcript trump the safety of other students? If a serial rapist transferred to my university after raping 12 women at another school. There’s no way that a school would be allowed to know his…

we need to teach people how not to be victims as well as teach people not to be predators

I don’t think colleges do necessarily do criminal background checks. In any case, an offense that was handled on campus, rather than by outside law enforcement, wouldn’t show up on a criminal check. Nor would a student have been convicted of a crime, so he or she could legitimately answer no to any application…

i guess what i mean here is that from a young age, children are taught that hurting someone, stealing, killing, drugs, etc.. are wrong and illegal.

Why are schools investigating them at all? They are a criminal matter. The police should be handling it. If convicted, there is a permanent record. If acquitted, then the person is not guilty. Or is that just too logical?

For the life of me I entirely don’t understand why American Universities can investigate and try sex assaults in some weird thing that exists outside of the criminal justice system. o.O

Would this open up even more legal action for the lack of due process colleges show when adjudicating issues of sexual assault?

As a bald woman your use of “hair trigger” triggers my triggers.

To be clear, the problem is not that Rachel Dolezal implied that a light-skinned student’s white privilege precluded her from being a legitimate participant in a discussion on racial discrimination. That belief is shared by most of the “respectable” commenters around here. The problem is the hypocrisy of her doing so…

White Hispanics are every bit as “ethnic” as darker-skinned Hispanics. People really need to stop using “ethnic” as a synonym/shorthand for non-white. Believe it or not, even white folks have ethnic backgrounds. This makes no sense.

Very white hispanic here. That would’ve been super awkward. I would’ve replied in Spanish with some insults here and there and then asked her if I was hispanic enough now

You’re both playing identity politics. Just stop. Being more disadvantaged than someone else doesn’t give you any moral high ground. this is exactly why this crazy lady became black. Because it gave her power in the weird identity politic world of a modern university.

Wow.

I said I’ve experienced more than people I know, not all people of color. I’m not arrogant enough to make that claim. And it is true, I’ve discussed this issue with my friends and family and I’ve had more experiences with it than a majority of them have. But whatever, clearly you want to pull out our Hispanic cocks…

You probably had an over exaggerated response of betrayal from them for pretending to be white. When you actually weren’t, you are bitcholaporvida who happens to be Hispanic. It’s all messed up when you are a light skinned minority. The “ethnics” partially blame you because your ancestors bought in to the oppression…

WHO CARES!

I’m 100% Hispanic but am very light skinned and grew up with a white last name (long story) but I think I’m just as capable of experiencing racial discrimination as my darker brothers and sisters. Because many white people have assumed I’m white, I’ve been privy to their racist comments against minorities because…

Right? My old line of work was linguistics, occasionally veering into forensic linguistics.

I’m totally ok with opposing opinions. But I’m totally NOT OKAY with being called (direct quote here) “fucking stupid,” which is why you’re last comment was dismissed. That does not add to discourse, whereas your comment here actually does.