Sunday, September 13, 2015

Democrat "justice"!??-----Better that five innocent students get expelled than one guilty student stay enrolled

Better that five innocent students get expelled than one guilty student stay enrolled - The Washington Post:
"The view endorsed by (DEMOCRAT) Rep. Jared Polis (this passage apparently both as to public universities and private universities, start at 1:57:28):
"It seems like we ought to provide more of a legal framework, then, that allows a reasonable likelihood standard or a preponderance of evidence standard [for deciding whether to expel college students accused of sex offenses]. 
If there are 10 people who have been accused, and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, it seems better to get rid of all 10 people. 
We’re not talking about depriving them of life or liberty, we’re talking about them being transferred to another university, for crying out loud."
This passage was followed by applause from the crowd.
Now I should say that there are certain positions where indeed a whiff of suspicion might be enough to get someone removed. 
I just hadn’t thought that being a college student would or should be one of them.
And that’s especially so when the policy is defended on the grounds that the students will just go to another university.
The innocent expelled students would have their education badly disrupted and delayed.
But the guilty students would, by hypothesis, just be at another university, where they’ll be able to attack their classmates (just a different set of classmates)..."

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