Firstly, might I suggest that you read the article that started this whole affair – here it is here. The article was called ‘Colleges become the victims of progressivism’, was written by George Will, and published on 6 June 2014.
George’s article concerned the mythical rape culture and associated culture of female victimhood that has taken root and is flourishing in North American university campuses.
I originally mentioned this issue in my post about feminist censorship, but the subject has now taken on a life of its own and well and truly warrants its own post. What makes it so significant is that it perfectly typifies what feminism has done, and is continuing to do, in stamping out dissenting views. Or more specifically, in stamping out people who dare to express dissenting views.
The feminist backlash against the publication of George’s article was immediate and soon resulted in him being sacked from his role at the newspaper in question. Yup, so much for the Land of the Free. Yay feminism!
Petition to fire George Will launched by wife of White House Media Director (12 June 2014)
St. Louis paper dumps George Will for Michael Gerson (19 June 2014)
(Mis) reading George Will (19 June 2014)
Tony Messenger: The man who fired George Will (19 June 2014)
Rage against the outrage machine (23 June 2014)
Here’s how the smear machine works – courtesy of Michelle Dean and Gawker (24 June 2014)
“People aren’t misunderstanding what Will wrote: They deliberately misrepresented what Will said …” (24 June 2014)
There is no internet ‘outrage machine’ – just these outrageous rape apologists (25 June 2014)
And Ms. magazine was still railing against George Will and his cohort of rape apologists etc etc in August 2014 in this piece of wild-eyed lunacy entitled ‘The Second Wave of Backlash against Anti-Rape Activism‘
Women’s studies professors pitch tantrum over George Will appearance (19 October 2014)
Raucous protesters choke entrance at George Will’s Miami University speech (22 October 2014)
If only 12% of campus sexual assaults get reported, then only 1 in 32 women at Ohio State are sexually assaulted, not 1 in 5 (20 October 2014)
Due process is still being kicked off campus (13 May 2016) USA