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1. You can kick someone off the team for skipping class. Most people would consider rape to be more serious, but perhaps not you (see point 2).
Skipping class, or being accused of skipping class?
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2. Maybe you think rape accusations aren't serious, but others do: "However, in the United States, the FBI Uniform Crime Report in 1996 and the United States Department of Justice in 1997 stated 8% of rape accusations in the United States were regarded as unfounded or false." So using your logic there is a 92% chance that a rape was real, so maybe that isn't enough to convince you and you would throw the accuser out of school. But, the accused at Baylor were accused by more than 1 woman. You would think that changes the odds of a false accusation considerably, but perhaps you wouldn't and you would protect the player. Perhaps your name is Art Briles.
Government agencies "state" a lot of stupid ****, all the time. Barack Obama is still parroting wage gap statistics that were discredited 30 years ago. Hillary Clinton still thinks 1 in 4 female college students are raped.
There is a bandwagon effect when someone is accused of rape publicly. This is due to a lot of reasons, but in this case the deep pockets of Baylor University and the potential future NFL earnings of the players have to be taken into account. The Bill Cosby Effect, as it were.
And **** you for saying I "don't consider rape to be serious". Just **** you. I guess you don't think due process is important?
Sigh.
The skipping class point has two parts: 1. Due process is not required for non-government agencies to take action. You can fire someone just because you think they stole from you. Due process protects us from the government. 2. I take an accusation of rape much more seriously than I take skipping class, proven or not.
I chose to get a statistic that seemed the least tainted with an agenda. I have seen numbers as low as 2% for false accusations and as high 33%. The FBI and and DOJ are not beyond making mistakes or having politics, given other things I have seen, they looked least likely to have an agenda. That said, the stat is for all rape accusations and it is probably different on a campus.
You seem to have an agenda around false accusations and I cannot find any place that says the false accusation level is at 50% so it seems like a number that you threw out to make your case but with out much actual data behind it. Further most studies believe that 20-40% of rapes go unreported, which would skew the numbers even more.
I cannot tell, are you defending Bill Cosby? Are you saying that he is an example of someone falsely accused? That would be surprising since he has already admitted to using barbiturates to subdue his "sex partners", but he now defends himself by saying he settled with the women or the statute of limitations is passed.
I said "perhaps" you don't take it seriously. Show me you think rape is serious and I will be able to understand your position better. I think due process is important. I think in this situation, as allowed by law, the evidence that two players had crossed the line (say one of the Charlie 5 Core Values), that action needed to be take while the legal process moved forward.
Now I will go **** myself. I hope I can enjoy it.
