Betsy DeVos Set To Meet With Suspected Rapists To Discuss Loosening Campus Sex Assault Rules
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is now infamous for her ultraconservative agenda, particularly when it comes to anything that threatens the patriarchal dominance of white Christian males in American society – and she’s intent on using the department she bought with her political contributions to enforce that dominance any way she can.
To that end, Betsy DeVos is meeting with rape apology “men’s right’s groups” on the issue of the campus sexual assault epidemic
DeVos will be meeting with accused rapists who claim to have been falsely accused,
like Jonathon Andrews of “Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE)” who claims he was accused of assault as punishment for speaking out about his own assault, and
Joseph Roberts, who lobbies Congress to put a stop to the “witch hunt” of sexual assault in the military.
The group is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as
“lobbying to roll back services for victims of domestic abuse and penalties for their tormentors, while working to return the focus to the ‘true victims of abuse’ — the falsely accused.”
SAVE told the Daily Beast they had been sending “materials” to DeVos’s office since the election but couldn’t “recall” who called the meeting.
But a quick look at their website reveals a deeply disturbing agenda – muddying the waters with articles like
“10 Myths About Campus Rape,” and creating an environment that allows sex assaults to go unpunished and unreported.
They will find a sympathetic ear in Candice E. Jackson, a DeVos appointee and a top civil rights official in the Education Department,who once said that:
In most investigations, she said, there’s “not even an accusation that these accused students overrode the will of a young woman.
Rather, the accusations — 90 percent of them — fall into the category of
‘we were both drunk,’
‘we broke up, and
six months later I found myself under a le IX investigation because
she just decided that our last sleeping together was not quite right.”
Such disparaging comments are astounding to hear from a victim of sexual assault herself and is a terrifying glimpse into how the
DeVos DoE will be dealing with campus rape.
DeVos will also meet with “the National Coalition for Men (NCFM)” and “Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE),” two groups with similar objectives to SAVE but a
more openly pro men’s “rights” approach to discrediting accusers and over-hyping the de able but infrequent false accusation phenomenon.
Campus rape researcher and activist Jaclyn Friedman condemned the meeting, stating unequivocally that
“they actively publicize the names of rape survivors in order to intimidate them and others into shutting up and taking it.”
http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/07...assault-rules/
Ditzy Devos, an upstanding, Christ-loving white male supremacist.
yep, the standard Repug/rightwing hate media/Repug-hate-caucus position that raped women are lying s
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