William A. Jacobson, a law professor at Cornell Law School and contributor to Legal Insurrection, called on the Cornell Daily Sun to apologize and publish a retraction after the paper printed a letter to the editor from seven graduate students alleging that the chair of the chemistry department was a rape apologist, a misogynist, and unfit to serve as chair.
“How can graduate students at risk for sexual assault and bias feel safe knowing the man handling sexual harassment complaints is a rape apologist?” they wrote.
My letter @cornellsun re vicious SJW attack: Prof @DavidBCollum, Chemistry, is owed an apology and a retraction https://t.co/H7T5ARRn0i pic.twitter.com/cbEc6tAvpc
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) April 26, 2017
I'm sure employers can't wait to hire these students and others like them. They're learning the wrong way to go about getting what you want
— Mary Schmid (@MarySchmid2) April 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/856924899373350912
https://twitter.com/morganwarstler/status/856990522434629632
Jacobson accuses the letter writers of taking several of Collum’s words and tweets out of context as part of a smear campaign in which the paper is complicit for not contacting Collum for rebuttal.
Jacobson notes that the students accused Collum of tweeting his support for “rape apologist” Michael Cernovich and then deleting the tweet, a charge Jacobson answered with a screen shot and this explanation:
… the sequence showed that rather than endorsing Cernovich’s 2012 date rape tweet as the letter suggests, Prof. Collum rejected the message in that tweet when called to his attention.
One or more of the letter writers surely were aware of this sequence because the first named writer, Kevin Hines, posted about the tweet and deletion on his own Facebook account contemporaneously with the deletion.
The students also took selected bits of this quote by Collum — “In an effort to stem a perceived epidemic of sexual violence against women, the Department of Education sent strong messages to universities” — to accuse him of “pushing the myth that rape on college campuses is a ‘perceived’ threat.”
“By selectively choosing one sentence from a 135-page document, stripping out the footnote, and ignoring other language in the same section,” Jacobson writes, the students managed to present him as a campus rape denier.
“I wrote to each of the original letter writers raising each of the points raised above and asking for a response. As of this writing, I have received no response,” Jacobson adds, asking the Daily Sun to consider that the original accusations will appear in search engines forever.
Another #SJW witch hunt built on an aggregation of lies ==> https://t.co/jMGcFL7eCu
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) April 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/JGavinHawkins/status/857075610509877248
Someday, somewhere this will all come back to haunt them. History will label this as new era of McCarthyism, and it won't be kind to SJWs.
— Angry Janitor (@jayarrington) April 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/857393549117095937
Can the graduate students who engage in this type of fact manipulation be trusted 2 conduct objective study & research?
— 19thAmendment (@XIXAmendment) April 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/PvilleHokie/status/857056002188902401
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