{"id":12507,"date":"2016-09-14T00:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T07:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=12507"},"modified":"2016-09-14T00:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T07:04:43","slug":"common-sense-is-sexist-and-kinda-rapey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/09\/14\/common-sense-is-sexist-and-kinda-rapey\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense is Sexist and Kinda Rapey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Being a reasonable person is <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/09\/09\/obama-admin-relying-on-common-sense-violates-title-ix\/\" target=\"_blank\">tantamount<\/a> to supporting sexual harassment, sexism, and rape culture\u2026 as far as the Obama administration is concerned.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Defining sexual harassment using &#8216;common sense and reason&#8217; is a violation of Title IX, the Department of Education declared in a letter released Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The letter, released by the department&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), concerns an investigation into alleged Title IX violations at Frostburg State University in Maryland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Why is this such a dangerous &#8220;letter&#8221;?\u00a0 Because common sense and what a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reasonable_person\" target=\"_blank\">reasonable person<\/a> would believe is an integral part of our Common Law tradition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The letter explicitly states that &#8220;[T]he Sexual Harassment Policy inappropriately stated that &#8216;in assessing whether a particular act constitutes sexual harassment forbidden under this policy, the rules of common sense and reason shall prevail. The standard shall be the perspective of a reasonable person within the campus community.&#8217; This standard falls short of the preponderance of the evidence standard required to satisfy Title IX.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12508\" title=\"reasonable\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/reasonable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/reasonable.jpg 625w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/reasonable-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The thrust of the Progressives legal impulse is to <a title=\"Today the Church, Tomorrow your Conscience\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/07\/14\/today-the-church-tomorrow-your-conscience\/\" target=\"_blank\">assume guilt<\/a> and base that guilt on the <a title=\"The Self Admitted Irrationality of Social Justice\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/03\/30\/the-self-admitted-irrationality-of-social-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\">subjective opinion<\/a> of the designated oppressor class.\u00a0 Guilt is assumed.\u00a0 <a title=\"Verdict First Trial Later\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/06\/04\/verdict-first-trial-later\/\" target=\"_blank\">Verdict; then trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The full letter can be read below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View Frostburg State University Obama Administration Letter Regarding Sexual Harassment on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/323818297\/Frostburg-State-University-Obama-Administration-Letter-Regarding-Sexual-Harassment#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >Frostburg State University Obama Administration Letter Regarding Sexual Harassment<\/a> by <a title=\"View ThePoliticalHat's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/188606198\/ThePoliticalHat#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >ThePoliticalHat<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/323818297\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-u9OMFTQjaC0PhOyFSNEY&#038;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_72843\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Common Sense is Sexist and Kinda Rapey\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Being a reasonable person is tantamount to supporting sexual harassment, sexism, and rape culture... as far as the Obama administration is concerned.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/reasonable.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Being a reasonable person is tantamount to supporting sexual harassment, sexism, and rape culture\u2026 as far as the Obama administration is concerned. &#8220;Defining sexual harassment using &#8216;common sense and reason&#8217; 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