Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of #SexualAssault, Other #Crimes
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Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the federal Department of Education found the evangelical #school in #Virginia had discouraged #students from reporting #rape and other crimes.

#News #College #Education #Assault #CriminalJustice #Law #LibertyUniversity

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Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of Sexual Assault, Other Crimes

Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the federal Department of Education found the evangelical school in Virginia had discouraged students from reporting rape and other crimes.

ProPublica

@ProPublica This culture is based on the Susannah principle: that women are the embodiment of sex and sexual desire, and men, driven by the instinct to breed, cannot be expected to control themselves around a woman they find attractive. Women, therefore, are expected to be modest at all times and never put themselves in a situation in which they might "tempt" a man to sin.

Consent is entirely beside the point, of course. Women are thought to "consent" merely by being alone with a man.

@textualdeviance @ProPublica

UGH! That's a disgusting view of both men and women.

It posits that men are animals with no intelligence and no self-control, and women are not even people, just sexual objects that must be hidden away from uncontrollable male animals.

Why would people accept this sort of judgement about themselves?