Women And Black People Now Treated Like Defenseless Infants -- All In The Name Of "Equality"
We've got this awful thing going on -- where people are reported (by third parties) for being victimized and others are reported as their victimizers -- despite the supposedly victimized insisting that there was actually no wrong done to them.
Only...nobody cares what they have to say.
One of these cases is the Boermeester/Katz case, at USC, where football player Matt Boermeester was said to have attacked his girlfriend, Zoe Katz, in some domestic violence incident. Some neighbor witnessed this and told his roommate, who told a USC coach that Boermeester was abusing Katz.
Katz insisted that she was not victimized; that they were just roughhousing; but USC refused to believe her, deemed her a victim, and placed restrictions on Boermeester. They've pretty much ruined his college career and probably more. From that Zach Helfand LA Times story linked above:
Katz said she was summoned to a mandatory meeting with Title IX officials, where she told investigators that the two were playing around. Katz was subsequently told that she "must be afraid of Matt," she said. She told officials she was not. Boermeester has not been arrested or charged with a crime."When I told the truth about Matt, in repeated interrogations, I was stereotyped and was told I must be a 'battered' woman, and that made me feel demeaned and absurdly profiled," Katz said. "I understand that domestic violence is a terrible problem, but in no way does that apply to Matt and me."
Katz said that she has "never been abused, assaulted or otherwise mistreated by Matt."
Boermeester, who kicked the game-winning field goal for USC in the Rose Bowl, was suspended from USC, then barred from campus and from meeting with USC's athletic trainers or members of the football team. The school also barred Boermeester from contacting Katz, she said.
Psychologically, too, this can't be good or easy for either one. Oh, and by the way, last I read, they were still dating -- and Katz doesn't seem like some Stepford girlfriend, just going along. In fact, she seems quite the opposite.
The latest one of these cases involves a British conductor, Matthew Halls. Halls was fired by a US music festival (the Oregon Bach Festival) after he was overheard making a joke, using a southern accent, to a friend of his. A black friend.
The friend was not the one who complained. In fact, that friend, African-American classical singer Reginald Mobley, insists there was no offense in the joke and says he was not offended.
But as Patrick Sawyer reports in The Telegraph/UK:
It is understood a white woman who overheard the joke reported it to officials at the University of Oregon, which runs the festival, claiming it amounted to a racial slur....Halls and Mobley had been chatting at a reception held last month during this year's Oregon Bach Festival, when the subject turned to a concert in London in which Mobley had performed.
The singer, who was born and raised in the southern state of Florida, said the concert had an "antebellum" feel to it, of the sort associated with Gone With the Wind and other rose-tinted representations of the pre-Civil War south.
In response Mobley says that Halls "apologised on behalf of England", before putting on an exaggerated southern accent and joking: "Do you want some grits?", in a reference to the ground corn dish popular in the south.
"I'm from the deep south and Matthew often makes fun of the southern accent just as I often make fun of his British accent," said Mobley. "Race was not an issue. He was imitating a southern accent, not putting on a black accent, and there was nothing racist or malicious about it."
If there's anyone who's mistreating a black man here, it's the woman who insists he's being victimized by his friend -- when he insists he is not.
I wonder if Katz has grounds for a lawsuit. Even if she were a victim, how does the school get to take up your cause, not only without your permission, but against your wishes?
Patrick at September 13, 2017 3:59 AM
I have been wondering the same thing.
Amy Alkon at September 13, 2017 4:47 AM
They claim they are a private organization and can do whatever they want as a private group. Still, there are legal limits to that argument. Perhaps Katz and Boermeester should explore them. In a very practical sense you can do all kinds of illegal stuff until the law gets involved.
Ben at September 13, 2017 5:28 AM
Ground to sue? Well, they told her boyfriend that he couldn't contact her. That's gotta be tortious interference or something. Theirs is not technically a contractual relationship, so that may not be grounds.
Since he is a football player, the university would have had a great deal of say in his life. He "represents" the university.
Although he may have grounds to sue the university as they have interfered with his potential to play professional football and earn a living doing that.
Stupidity like this is why DeVos was right to rescind the "Dear Colleague" letter sent out by the Obama DoE.
When the truth doesn't fit the narrative, change the truth. The narrative is sacred and can never be changed. All hail the narrative.
Conan the Grammarian at September 13, 2017 6:26 AM
The crazy part about this is that the kicker is being accused of domestic violence. She's a star tennis player. I would wager she can bench more than he can, because her sport requires more upper body strength than his position does.
spqr2008 at September 13, 2017 6:29 AM
Progressives, liberals, Democrats and other fascists can’t see beyond the color of a black man’s skin. They can’t consider his thoughts and opinions, evaluate his point of view or hear what he has to say. When you disagree with something a black man says or does, they think you oppose him because he’s black, and call you a racist, because to them everything and the only thing a black man is is black.
Racism doesn’t necessarily mean hostility against people of a different race. It’s the belief that some races are inherently superior or inferior to others. Progressives, liberals, Democrats and other fascists, both white and black, are racist to the core. They pay lip service to the ideal of equality: equal rights, equal abilities, etc. - but their actions speak louder than their words. They see black people as the white man’s burden, incapable of getting decent jobs, homes, and educations, and living as equals in a free and civilized society without help and protection from benevolent, superior, progressive white people. To them, black people, like Reginald Mobley, are like innocent, simple-minded children who aren’t even aware that privileged white men like Matthew Halls are putting them down. Apparently a significant number of black people agree with this assessment, as evidenced by the grievances and demands of Black Lives Matter and other liberal black activists.
As for the Boermeester/Katz case: just change the context from race to sex and the same principles apply.
Where I work a young black woman was recently promoted to a position with significant responsibility and authority. She is intelligent, attractive, ethical – and she’s from Mississippi and has a charming Southern accent. Of course I would never mention any of those qualities out loud for fear of being labelled as a privileged-white-racist-male-sexist bigot by some virtue signaling social justice warrior.
Ken R at September 13, 2017 6:55 AM
"Although he may have grounds to sue the university as they have interfered with his potential to play professional football and earn a living doing that."
That's the thing. He can sue the university for loss of income due to the defamation, and produce contracts and lifetime earnings for some NFL kickers like Morton Anderson or Russel Erxlaben, which will be up around $100M after adjusting for inflation. He can get an NFL scout or two who will testify that he would have been a first-round draft pick (which might or might not be true, but how would anyone challenge a scout's evaluation?) The school will fold like a cheap suit. After all, it isn't their money. It's the students' and taxpayers' money.
The school doesn't care. It's a lot less hassle and less expensive for them to continue paying off lawsuits than it would be to alter their policies and risk the political (and physical) wrath of the SJWs, whom they are sympathetic to anyway. That's why I don't think that DeVos's rescinding of the Dear Colleague letter is going to matter much, unless the Education Department passes new regulations mandating more fair standards. Which they won't do because the DeVos allies suspect, in their heart of hearts, that Trump won't stand behind them in the crunch.
Cousin Dave at September 13, 2017 7:29 AM
Even an accusation is enough to ruin your life. This is insane.
cc at September 13, 2017 7:37 AM
"Even an accusation is enough to ruin your life. This is insane."
Even an accusation is enough to ruin someone else's life. This is power without accountability, exactly how lots of folks like it.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at September 13, 2017 8:59 AM
Since he is a football player, the university would have had a great deal of say in his life. He "represents" the university.
True.
I would love to see U$C's lawyers argue in court that they get to interfere with his romantic life. Perhaps they will assign him a boyfriend, or perhaps a transwoman?
Why not? in some quarters, that would reflect positively upon U$C.
I R A Darth Aggie at September 13, 2017 3:33 PM
When you disagree with something a black man says or does, they think you oppose him because he’s black, and call you a racist, because to them everything and the only thing a black man is is black.
Unless it is a conservative black person, such as Clarence Thomas or Condoleezza Rice. Then all racial slurs are fair game.
I R A Darth Aggie at September 13, 2017 3:36 PM
Private conversations are now to be monitored by random Stasi?
KateC at September 13, 2017 6:38 PM
@Ken
I am an attractive, smart, hardworking, sweet, ethical white woman. And I have learned to not accept compliments from men at all. Not because of men, mostly, because of other women.
If a male co worker compliments or flirts with me, I have to not only worry about *his* intentions, which, on it's own I can deal with--I have to worry about appearances, and rumors, and who may be believing said rumors, etc.
But strict professionalism has it's dark side as well. In this new world of coworkers as family and team building, the cute as fuck 46 year old woman who looks 26 and is *professional* is now considered stuck up. I have been hauled into a couple of managers offices because I spend too much time *working* instead of dicking around with the Millennials.
So as much as you lament not being able to be friendly and natural with a woman you'd like to champion, trust that it's much worse for the actual women.
SophieK at September 13, 2017 9:26 PM
"But strict professionalism has it's dark side as well."
Yes. Men at work are learning that interactions with women in the workplace are an opportunity to get into trouble, and are to be avoided as much as possible. Outside of a handful of people that I trust, my interactions with everyone at work are strictly business; I don't volunteer any personal information or opinions, and I don't ask anyone else for theirs. And I'm careful not be alone behind a closed door (in an office or conference room) with a woman. It's a bad deal for the women, who are cut off from advice and mentorship from the senior men. But those men have families who depend on them, and they can't risk it.
The biggest problem, though, is the third-party complaint. There's a female co-worker (one of the handful of people I trust) whose interaction style is to be a bit flirty. I don't mind, but I don't respond to her in kind not because I worry about what she will think, but because someone who overhears might object. We're in a cube farm and you can hear conversations all over the room.
Cousin Dave at September 14, 2017 7:27 AM
Matthew Halls should not only have been fired, but also banned for life from the US concert circuit for his implicitly racist patriarchal confirming insult to a person of color who has been culturally conditioned to demeaning acquiescence. Grits is white patriarchal fascist code speech for slave fodder, and the food reference to a cis gendered person of color was symbolic oral rape by the colonialist oppressor trying to maintain or regain his dominant status over the formerly colonized person of color.
Halls need to be rigourously doxxed, his supremacist nazi associations outed and he needs to be punished for his oppressive speech.
naomie argentson at September 14, 2017 3:04 PM
The Eugene Bach Festival is a perpetuation of white privileged and cultural imposition upon people of color who are forced to abandon their native indigenous folkways and assimilate a white male patriarchal informed musical fascism. Bach's music represents the patriarchy supreme effort to impose an artificial metrical construct on music opposed to the expression of the natural unstructured sub conscious. Not only Hall but all the cis gendered white supremacists supporters of a nazi German music need to be exposed, kept out of the public space, prevented from spreading the illness of this conformist so called music, and encouraged to undergo public self criticism to atone for their cultural fascism and prevent others from following this erroneous path.
Reginald Mobeley needs to be re educated and steeped in his people's intrinsic cultural musical methodologies so the evil pattern of reverse cultural assimilation is halted in its tracks.
rigtheous sun jim at September 14, 2017 3:34 PM
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