{"id":5269,"date":"2015-12-14T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T02:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2022-05-02T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:54:45","slug":"shutting-down-conversations-about-rape-at-harvard-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5269","title":{"rendered":"Shutting Down Conversations About Rape at Harvard Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=photo><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95%\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Suk-The-Hunting-Ground-690.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=caption>Photograph by Gretchen Ertl \/ The New York Times \/ Redux<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen recent high-profile instances in which that article of faith has led to damaging errors, as in Rolling Stone\u2019s reporting of a rape at the University of Virginia, or the prosecution of the Duke lacrosse case. The extent of the damage comes out of the fact that \u201calways believe\u201d unwittingly renders the stakes of each individual case impossibly high, by linking the veracity of any one claim to the veracity of all claims. When the core belief is that accusers never lie, if any one accuser has lied, it brings into question the stability of the entire thought system, rendering uncertain all allegations of sexual assault. But this is neither sensible nor necessary: that a few claims turn out to be false does not mean that all, most, or even many claims are wrongful. The imperative to act as though every accusation must be true\u2014when we all know some number will not be\u2014harms the over-all credibility of sexual assault claims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/argument-sexual-assault-race-harvard-law-school\">full article<\/a> by Jeannie Suk in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photograph by Gretchen Ertl \/ The New York Times \/ Redux &#8220;We have seen recent high-profile instances in which that article of faith has led to damaging errors, as in Rolling Stone\u2019s reporting of a rape at the University of Virginia, or the prosecution of the Duke lacrosse case. The extent of the damage comes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5269\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shutting Down Conversations About Rape at Harvard Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9359,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/9359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}