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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBetsy DeVos' Civil Rights Chief: "90 Percent" of Campus Rape Claims Are Bogus
Betsy DeVos Civil Rights Chief Said 90 Percent of Campus Rape Claims Are Bogus. The Backlash Was Swift.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/betsy-devos-civil-rights-chief-said-90-percent-of-campus-rape-claims-are-bogus-the-backlash-was-swift/
On Monday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) called on Betsy DeVos to remove the Education Departments acting civil rights chief for her callous, insensitive, and egregious comments about campus sexual assaults and her rollbacks of civil rights enforcement.
Candice Jackson, the official in question, told the New York Times last week that 90 percent of campus assault accusations fall into the category of we were both drunk, we broke up, and six months later I found myself under a Title IX investigation because she just decided that our last sleeping together was not quite right.' Jackson, who once complained that she faced discrimination because she was white, later apologized for her remarks at a listening session with sexual assault survivorswhich included students accused of sexual assault, a mens rights group, and university officials.
In a statement, Sen. Murray said Jacksons remarks, despite the apology, crossed a serious line and highlighted her clear biases in this area in a way that, to me and many women and men across the country, should disqualify her from service.
This is the last straw, Murray wrote, it is not my only concern.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/betsy-devos-civil-rights-chief-said-90-percent-of-campus-rape-claims-are-bogus-the-backlash-was-swift/
On Monday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) called on Betsy DeVos to remove the Education Departments acting civil rights chief for her callous, insensitive, and egregious comments about campus sexual assaults and her rollbacks of civil rights enforcement.
Candice Jackson, the official in question, told the New York Times last week that 90 percent of campus assault accusations fall into the category of we were both drunk, we broke up, and six months later I found myself under a Title IX investigation because she just decided that our last sleeping together was not quite right.' Jackson, who once complained that she faced discrimination because she was white, later apologized for her remarks at a listening session with sexual assault survivorswhich included students accused of sexual assault, a mens rights group, and university officials.
In a statement, Sen. Murray said Jacksons remarks, despite the apology, crossed a serious line and highlighted her clear biases in this area in a way that, to me and many women and men across the country, should disqualify her from service.
This is the last straw, Murray wrote, it is not my only concern.
Previously...
Apr. 3, 2017 5:20 pm
A conservative legal activist known for defending the women who accused President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment has been tapped to head the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights on a temporary basis.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/03/report-new-head-of-federal-anti-sexual-a
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Betsy DeVos' Civil Rights Chief: "90 Percent" of Campus Rape Claims Are Bogus (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jul 2017
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raccoon
(31,093 posts)1. I can't stand that woman. Her being Sect. of Education is like a sick joke. nt
pandr32
(11,454 posts)2. I agree with Sen. Murray
Completely!
Initech
(99,925 posts)3. Calling them "deplorables" is being too kind!
Squinch
(50,776 posts)4. In this administration's need to undo everything Obama did, they are willing to allow thousands
of teenaged girls and girls in their very early twenties to be raped.
May they all burn in hell.
Orrex
(63,088 posts)5. Candice Jackson is 100% asshole
suffragette
(12,232 posts)6. I stand with Senator Murray. Jackson should be removed.