Cornell rape accusations

 https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/2105704280217055649

(she expected them to) reward her by making sure she gets to be "one of the guys" - a sort of friend of the frat who gets special privileges. After the night of sex when the men told others what happened and then uninvited her from their party, she felt like they did not hold up their end of the implicit bargain. in her head, she played the role of the cool girl for them, and then they threw her away. She went from feeling like "the cool chick," to feeling like a dupe who got used and tossed aside.

She sees her consent as contingent on their silence and a place in their group; "I never would have agreed to do those things had I known you would destroy my reputation, and kick me out of the group." In her head, since consent was contingent on being given a place in their group and their social protection, when they broke their end of the agreement her consent was (in her mind) contingent upon, her consent no longer holds.

False rape accusations

Duke (2006)

Crystal Mangum accused three Duke lacrosse players of gang rape. Charges were dropped; the players were declared innocent by the North Carolina Attorney General. Mangum later admitted the story was fabricated.

Hofstra (2009)

An 18-year-old student accused five men of gang rape in a campus bathroom. She recanted within days after a cell-phone video showed consensual sex. She was charged with filing a false report.

Xavier (2012)

Basketball player Dez Wells was expelled after a fellow student accused him of sexual assault. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters investigated, a grand jury declined to indict, and Deters publicly called Xavier’s process “fundamentally unfair.” Wells transferred to Maryland and later settled a lawsuit with Xavier.

UC Boulder (2013)

A student (Sarah Gilchriese) reported an alleged assault months after it supposedly occurred. Prosecutors declined to charge. The university’s handling of the case and related Title IX complaints drew federal scrutiny and later lawsuits from accused students claiming biased investigations.

UVA / Rolling Stone (2014)

Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s article “A Rape on Campus” described a brutal fraternity gang rape of a student identified as “Jackie.” Police found no evidence; Rolling Stone fully retracted the story. The account collapsed under basic fact-checking.

Mattress Girl / Columbia (2014)

Emma Sulkowicz accused fellow student Paul Nungesser of rape and carried a mattress around campus as a protest art project. Columbia’s process found Nungesser not responsible. He later sued; the university settled.

Clemson (2015)

Andrew Pampu was found responsible by the university after Erin Wingo claimed she was too intoxicated to consent. A friend later texted Pampu admitting they had lied. A jury awarded Pampu $5.3 million in a defamation/conspiracy case (later partially reversed on appeal).

Sacred Heart (2016)

Nikki Yovino accused two football players of rape at an off-campus party. She later admitted the sex was consensual and that she had lied to preserve a romantic relationship. She pleaded guilty to false reporting and served prison time. The players sued her and the university.

These cases share several features: rapid institutional action under Title IX pressure, limited due-process protections for the accused, heavy media or campus-activist coverage before facts were established, and eventual recantation, prosecutorial refusal to charge, or civil findings that the original claims were false or coordinated.

Why are students allowed to run wild in public schools?

The Obama administration’s January 8, 2014 Dear Colleague letter on the “Nondiscriminatory Administration of School Discipline,” essentially instituted racial quotas on any attempts to control student behavior.

Using Civil Rights Data Collection figures showing large racial gaps in exclusionary discipline:

• Black students were about 15% of enrollment but accounted for 35% of students suspended once, 44% of those suspended more than once, and 36% of those expelled.
• Black students without disabilities were more than three times as likely as White peers to be suspended or expelled.
• Over half of school-related arrests and law-enforcement referrals involved Black or Hispanic students. 

The letter argued these gaps were not explained by differences in the frequency or seriousness of misbehavior. It applied a disparate-impact standard under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act: a race-neutral policy could still violate federal law if it produced a “disproportionate and unjustified effect” on students of a particular race. Schools that failed to address such disparities risked federal investigations and loss of funding. It also promoted alternatives to suspension and expulsion (restorative practices, counseling, positive behavioral interventions) and warned against over-reliance on school resource officers.

Tiananmen

 

https://ashesofpompeii.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-tiananmen-square

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https://fridayeveryday.com/new-docs-reveal-what-really-happened-in-beijing-1989/

How did violence break out? Kong’s answer to that question was cryptic.  “When we were little, we watched movies like Guerrillas Sweep The Plain,” he said.

That answer would have meant nothing to a western audience—but it was clear to many Chinese. This was a reference to a classic 1955 Chinese movie in which there are tensions between two groups. They have disagreements but don’t fight. Suddenly, a hidden third body, the Eighth Army, opens fire at both sides and then quickly hides, triggering bloodshed.

https://gwydionwilliams.com/42-china/communist-chinas-survival-after-the-tiananmen-crackdown/

China tourism

Shanghai (short)
https://youtu.be/Xq8ABGnBsdY

Shanghai (long)
https://youtu.be/CWge41JUXGY

Beijing
https://youtu.be/zITd3zDcl3Q

Shenzhen
https://youtu.be/tDKOimyHbMY

Guangzhou (Canton)
https://youtu.be/MfVAPOJ3KMk

Taiwan (short)
https://youtu.be/Y05_R_QNi88

Seoul
https://youtu.be/ah1yXG3idws

Japan (short)
https://youtu.be/juZtB9W7GO0

saboteurs of China

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-15-mn-22993-story.html

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https://x.com/NuryVittachi/status/2063034533285654787

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China demonizes the Chinese, day in and day out, with members preferring not to mention the group’s origins and funding.

Why? Because IPAC was birthed by the National Endowment for Democracy, which took over the “soft power” side of the CIA’s regime change operations from its launch in 1983.

It specifically works worldwide to demonize the Chinese to advance US interests.

The initial focus was to beef up the Uyghur genocide hoax, for which the groundwork had already been laid.

When that flopped badly (the Uyghur minority grew more rapidly than other ethnic groups), this was switched to the Uyghur slave labor hoax. This broadened to general demonization of the Chinese using all the Washington narratives -- they wrecked Xinjiang, they wrecked Hong Kong, they're trying to take over the world.

many people now know about the NED and what it does.

Also problematic is the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have visited China, including Xinjiang and Hong Kong, and seen the truth for themselves. These are not smoldering ruins but thriving, safe communities. Western countries can learn from them.

Learning from history or not

 Angelica Oung

As we go through a tumultuous time in the world, there is no better time to learn about Chinese history. You see, China was unified more than 2,000 years ago, and since then it's been its own unipolar world with some messy interstitials. While Great Powers competition happens in overlapping parallels in the rest of the world, Chinese history unfolds as a series of dynasties. 

Every new dynasty that holds the baton of legitimacy is painfully aware of all the other dynasties that has gone before, and as a result, is determined not to make the same mistakes. The first task of the new dynasty is to write the official history of the old dynasty it replaced. 

In the west in contrast, the failure of a rival was rarely internalized as an existential warning. Instead there's what I call a "Lol Those Fools Lost" mentality. The assumption is when two rivals clash, the one with the superior system would naturally prevail. Failure is externalized as something done to you by somebody else instead of something you become through internal imbalances that build up inexorably over time. Dynastic cycles? Wasn't that something that happened to the Romans? 

Well...it's happening to us now. I believe my late-onset interest in Chinese history is not just because China became so strong, but also because the vocabulary of Chinese history suddenly became startlingly legible and relevant.

"elite overproduction" "loss of legitimacy" "center-periphery breakdown" "peasant immiseration" "fiscal exhaustion" "military overextension" "bureaucratic sclerosis" "monstrous courtiers" "inability to reform due to entrenched interests"

My model of the world has changed from "in the end there can be only one system (liberal democracy)" to "in any system success itself generates the conditions of decay." There is no escape from history. We are trapped in dharma. 

In the end, dynastic cycle theory isn't really about China at all. It's about becoming historically self-aware through feeling connected to the past. A unipolar civilization system like dynastic China could not help but confront themselves over and over again. In a multipolar system, we can still do it, but only as a choice.