campus politics

Trying to make sense of this story.

Reed College student Jeremiah True drew national attention March 19 after claiming he was bounced from the discussion portion of his Humanities 110 class for arguing that sexual assault statistics are inflated. His story got weird from there. After BuzzFeed reported his claims and rape culture deniers championed his cause, True, 19, posted increasingly aggressive rants online, prompting fellow students to report feeling unsafe on campus. In an interview with GotNews posted on YouTube on March 24, True claimed he was purposefully acting like a “jerk wad” to draw more attention and parlay the controversy into a career in media. As of March 24, Reed officials were standing by their decision to bar True.

Hm.  I hate to slide into any cause championed by Charles Johnson, but unless he interceded on some allotted time limits in the class discussion to “not let everyone in”, I’m stuck on some things…

I suppose there’s a decent case to slam anyone arguing on about a 6 Thousand year Earth in a biology class, or…

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