Exactly. It doesn’t matter if the white woman who was assualted used a racial slur even: it doesn’t justify people physically harming her.

Yes, so throw the white woman they assaulted under the bus instead. Progress!

And that TOTALLY isn’t a strawman argument. No one said the consequences were the same. They were saying that people TODAY would be extremely prolific about their anger if white students made a false accusation.

“while others are upset over the potential consequences for victims of assault.”

No, they don’t. There doesn’t need to be “Evidence” to expel him. On this very blog people have argued to expel students accused of rape if only on the basis of making the accuser feel “safe.” Specifically it has been argued for Title IX reviews to have a lower burden of proof than the courts.

Except the hearing doesn’t need to be evidenced based. Have you actually been listening to this conversation for the past few years? Right here on Jezebel bloggers have advocated that men be kicked off campus for the allegation. The University doesn’t have to prove he raped anyone, just that it would make the accuser…

The accuser should have to deal with leveling an accusation. No accusations should be made for free. I shouldn’t be able to accuse you of murder without actually having to back that accusation.

But you DO need to convict someone of a crime to punish them for a crime. I mean are you really arguing that heresay is a punishable offense now? You are arguing AGAINST due process.

But you DID have to wait to the end of the trial to punish him. It is wrong to punish someone without the trial. I cannot believe I have to tell people that due process is important in this day and age.

None of what you cited somehow changes that someone has been punished without due process.

Except we do. We have seen the inside of these review boards change away from evidence based thinking to “believing victims” in the past several years. This blog has championed that.

But that isn’t “strong evidence.” Universities are being encouraged to believe allegations, not actually to investigate them. Don’t act like the University is doing anything other than the politically expedient thing here: no where in all the discussions about rape culture has there been a call for evidence based…