KeepTalking
Code Monkey
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So what if a generation of males need be sacrificed, he implies sanctimoniously, against the justice of building "new men", contrite and brought to heel by feminism? Why let obstacles like "due process" get in the way of the lavish use of campus inquisitions, gender tribunals, and metaphorical guillotines ? "Blood" must be spilled to make progress.
Its sad that the feminist left (and their male fellow-travelers and part-time apologists) have betrayed their liberal roots - perhaps a few of them need be reminded of basic due process their ideological ancestors once demanded:
“(Due Process) embodies a system of rights based on moral principles so deeply imbedded in the traditions and feelings of our people as to be deemed fundamental to a civilized society as conceived by our whole history. Due Process is that which comports with the deepest notions of what is fair and right and just.”1 The content of due process is “a historical product”2 that traces all the way back to chapter 39 of Magna Carta, in which King John promised that “[n]o free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”3 The phrase “due process of law” first appeared in a statutory rendition of this chapter in 1354....
http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt5bfrag1_user.html
Sigh, one would have thought we made progress since the 13th century.
Yes, because getting barred from a college campus is exactly the same as being imprisoned, and/or being hunted down by the King's men.