Morse, who has taught as a lecturer at UMass-Amherst since 2014, rejected the College Democrats' accusations in a statement, writing: "I want to be very clear about this. I have never, in my entire life, had a non-consensual sexual encounter with anyone."
But many on the progressive left—especially campus social-justice activist types—cling to an odd definition of consent in which the concept is voided if any party to a sexual encounter later feels conflicted about it, or if the power and privilege differentials of the participants have not been fully worked out ahead of time. This strain of progressivism often follows a believe-all-victims mentality, which does not allow for serious scrutiny of dubious misconduct claims. In keeping with this tradition, many on Twitter called for Morse to be held accountable for wrongdoing.
Others on the left, including The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, pushed back and accused Morse's detractors of trying to infantilize college students. "There are factions of the liberal-left as obsessed with regulating, controlling & moralizing over the private consensual sex lives of adults as the 1980s Moral Majority," wrote Greenwald.
It's hard to disagree with Greenwald here. While the lack of specificity makes it impossible to say for certain whether all of Morse's dealings with students were perfectly benign, the accusations seem to rest upon several faulty premises.
https://reason.com/2020/08/10/alex-morse-justice-democrats-students-umass/
Identitatian Left ...... Eating its own
But many on the progressive left—especially campus social-justice activist types—cling to an odd definition of consent in which the concept is voided if any party to a sexual encounter later feels conflicted about it, or if the power and privilege differentials of the participants have not been fully worked out ahead of time. This strain of progressivism often follows a believe-all-victims mentality, which does not allow for serious scrutiny of dubious misconduct claims. In keeping with this tradition, many on Twitter called for Morse to be held accountable for wrongdoing.
Others on the left, including The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, pushed back and accused Morse's detractors of trying to infantilize college students. "There are factions of the liberal-left as obsessed with regulating, controlling & moralizing over the private consensual sex lives of adults as the 1980s Moral Majority," wrote Greenwald.
It's hard to disagree with Greenwald here. While the lack of specificity makes it impossible to say for certain whether all of Morse's dealings with students were perfectly benign, the accusations seem to rest upon several faulty premises.
https://reason.com/2020/08/10/alex-morse-justice-democrats-students-umass/
Identitatian Left ...... Eating its own
