HEATHER Mac Donald Defends Due Process. Debunks 1-in-5 Rape Stat. Hostile Colgate Crowd Shrieks.
Heather Mac Donald stood at Colgate University in front of a hostile, emotional audience who barraged her during a Q&A with highly charged questions after she gave a speech. Mac Donald, author of “The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture,” drew a protest among student activists. Mac Donald said, “My Colgate experience presented a more extreme version of something I have encountered in all the campus protests against me: the questions from the protesters in the hall invariably have nothing to do with my talk. … This is campus rage manufactured in order to preserve the claims of victimhood.”
She was questioned about the role of binge drinking in campus rape, she said “I actually believe women have power,” prompting another cacophony of cries from the audience. Mac Donald appeared surprised students disagreed with her, the video shows. “You don’t? You don’t think women have power to control the amount that they drink short of having someone pour it down their mouth?”
More cries, more groans, more jeers and angry chatter from the audience, prompting Mac Donald to say “I thought we were all strong women together. I thought the purpose was to recognize the autonomy of women over their fate and I would say that if you think that drunken parties are a high-risk rape environment, just avoid them.” Again this prompted shrieks of outrage from the audience and accusations of victim blaming. “I put female safety ahead of the principle of male fault,” she told the crowd.
Later a male student told her “if someone says they’ve been raped — they’ve been raped,” prompting yet another round of cheers from the audience. Mac Donald wasn’t having it. “I don’t accept the proposition that every accusation of a crime is proof that that crime happened. I think, especially in this country, we should be very worried about false accusations of rape. … Something as serious as rape deserves proof. I think the presumption of innocence is one of the glories of anglo-American jurisprudence …” In a second video of the Q&A Mac Donald again defended due process after she was asked how it feels for a woman to know she is not going to be believed. “That’s not what I am saying, what I am saying is she should prove her case,” Mac Donald said. Again, more cries of anger.
“There are procedures that have been developed over the centuries,” Mac Donald continued as she was once again interrupted by a wave of angry chatter. “Good luck if any of you are accused of a crime and you are not given the right of cross-examination, or you are not given the right of a lawyer,” she told the students.
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