The Left's New Restrictions on Sexual Conduct

Remember those heady days, starting in the 1960s, when "Free Love" was in the air?  Tossing aside all those repressive expectations of society concerning sexual conduct was "liberating".  Well, now, it seems that all that liberty has become uncomfortable to the Academic Left.  So, as is typical, they institute legal structures to replace the societal standards which they helped tear down. But they have a slightly different approach to restrictions on sexual activity:

Duke University has instituted a new "sexual misconduct" policy that can render a student guilty of non-consensual sex simply because he or she is considered "powerful" on campus. The policy claims that "perceived power differentials may create an unintentional atmosphere of coercion." Duke's new policy transforms students of both sexes into unwitting rapists simply because of the "atmosphere" or because one or more students are "intoxicated," no matter the degree. The policy also establishes unfair rules for judging sexual misconduct accusations.

Maggie's Farm:

The Moonbat Left can never decide whether they are for free love, or whether all sex is rape.

Wonder how long Duke University will continue to have sports programs, if all athletes are automatically subject to rape charges in any kind of sexual relationship just because of who they are?

Some other developments since the false rape charges against a group of Duke University athletes and the lynch-mob abuse by faculty and students of those wrongly-accused athletes. They'll never learn.

Of course, both this new sexual misconduct policy and the older feminist declaration that all sex between men and women (particularly in marriage) is rape are based on the Hard Left's tendency to view morality primarily in terms of economics and power, rather than in terms of right and wrong or in terms of the survival of civilization.  And the Hard Left is in charge of many of our universities.  At private universities like Duke, faculty members who persecute wrongly-accused students are especially well-paid for their persecution, by the evil capitalist parents of those students.  Of course, they are also well-supported by the government, through subsidized student loans, grants, etc.