The campus rape crusade, which yielded positively Orwellian "consent rules" at some institutions, was driven in part by an oft-repeated, jaw-dropping statistic that one in five women are victimized by sexual assault during their time at college. The Justice Department just published a study on the matter, and they found the actual figure to be not one in five, but rather 6.1 per thousand. In other words, the percentage of coeds exposed to sexual assault is 0.61 percent, not 20 percent.[...]
Whatever else is going on with young men and women on college campuses, the hysterical politically-driven crusade against "rape culture" has long since gotten so out of hand that it's become a crisis in its own right. It's no surprise that there's keen interest in teaching young women to think of themselves as victims, and young men to see themselves as beasts. That agenda found fertile ground in a neurotic groupthink culture that has lately taken to demanding a cocoon of "trigger warnings" around any idea that might make them so upset they can't function, and demanding time off from important coursework to deal with the emotional fallout from controversial news stories. It would be far more useful to teach young people not to abandon their critical faculties even when dealing with the most sensational claims of crisis.
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