The University of Virginia is 100 miles away from Washington, D.C..
It's not just a prestigious school where rich people send their children; it's also a school that is and always was directly part, geographically and in every other way, of the political power center of the United States and the world.
That's why girls have gotten raped there every year since the school was founded. Every year since the school began, the son of a politically powerful person or his friends or the son of someone who had the power to cause or prevent someone from being elected or ruin someone's career has been a rapist. Those people are also alumni; the longer their families have attended UVA and the richer they are, the more powerful they are. As far as the power structure at and around UVA is concerned, it has never been the right time to stop rape at UVA or to arrest the students who rape or to do anything other than attack and discredit the victims. Literally every year since the school began, rapists have been protected and rape victims have been called liars who are trying to ruin the lives of our future leaders. I'm sure that before women were admitted to the school in the 1970s, the rapists just brought women to the school to rape them or raped maids or other female workers.
Then there's the University of Virginia Law School; the Internet says it's the second oldest in the country.
Decisions for the entire country get made at that law school and by its graduates all over the country and all over the world, and always have. That's why rape culture continues to be a problem year after year. That's why rape victims are attacked in court and in the media. That's why rapes don't get reported and rapists don't get arrested or punished, all over the world. Somebody's daddy always is Someone or Knows Someone, and that culture of denial and dismissal is intact almost 200 years after the university was founded, and it has dictated and continues to dictate how rape is addressed all over the world.
After all, the United States is the single most powerful democracy. What has happened about rape at the University of Virginia is as if slave-ownership had continued to happen, or as if all the lies told by everyone from scientists to politicians to ministers to try to justify slavery just continued to be told even after slavery was made illegal instead of supported by the federal government.
That's a picture from this page:
Some of the descriptions of religion being used to defend slavery will sound familiar to people who have heard the pathetic, religion-exploiting arguments against gay marriage.
That's a page about the Slave Codes. These are pictures from it:
Many of the arguments that were used to try to defend slavery were used to try to defend against women getting the right to vote or any other right; we are mentally inferior, we need to be ruled with a strong hand or we won't be able to get through our lives, we are driven by feeling rather than reason, it's unnatural for us to be in control of our own lives and would be an abomination against G-d for us to be in a higher place in the human power hierarchy, socially, politically, in business, in religion. For us to have rights is not just bad for us but is dangerous to society and therefore should be treated like a personal insult to white men who ought to respond with anger and also with violence (they would have called it "loving discipline") when necessary.
Those are the Web addresses for the search terms "women are like children" and "blacks are like children."
The majority of the search results are for blogs and websites that are being maintained now, written and frequented by people in 2015.
It's not over.
"as if such accident never happened."
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Hypothesis
A close examination of rape at the University of Virginia would break open rape cases that are decades old, centuries old, indicting people at the highest levels of American society, business, politics, the criminal justice system, the legal system criminal and civil. Investigation specifically at the University of Virginia would do that.
It's about rape across the United States and around the world. That one school is the epicenter of rape denial and rape excuse.
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A DNA database for the descendants of rape victims and the descendants or other relatives of alumni of the University of Virginia and all American universities
Who were the rape victims at all-male universities before women were admitted to those schools?
-female service employees of those schools, poor white and minorities, primarily black
-college girls from other schools
-minority and poor, white women who lived or worked in and around the towns where the schools were
Some of the victims died, either "accidentally" while or as a result of being raped, or on purpose as part of the hazing rituals. Some of them killed themselves. Some of them went insane. Some of them got physical diseases and died or were permanently impaired. Some of them were so damaged that they were never able to have children. Some of them moved away from the towns or states where they were raped.
Some got pregnant.
Mandatory DNA testing of people who are not themselves accused of crimes is probably unconstitutional and should continue to be called unconstitutional. However, if there were a DNA database to which people who know or suspect that they are the descendants of rape victims or of rapists could voluntarily contribute DNA samples, then there would certainly be matches all across the United States, all around the world.
In addition to that, wouldn't that mean the discovery, if you'll pardon the expression, of genetic heirs to some of the money of those rich families whose wealth protected generation after generation of rapists from being arrested or even admonished?
That you or your descendants could be made financially accountable to relatives that you didn't even know you had, that you could have to share some of your inherited wealth with someone who is a total stranger to you because your father or your grandfather or some other male relative who's been dead for 100 years raped the dormitory maid; maybe that would finally put a stop to the "boys will be boys" attitude among the men of power and, through them, around the world, because then it would be (if Josh Earnest can't resist, then neither can I)
TIME TO PAY UP, MOTHERFUCKERS!
I'm sure that's the etiquette-approved way of saying it.
Problems would be that people who thought they might be the descendants of rape victims who volunteered their DNA would get harassed by all sorts of people, including their local police, media, corporations and probably the state and federal governments. People who were descendants of possible rapists would probably get harassed also, in addition to being censured by their families and probably cut out of wills and turned into social and professional pariahs.
You'd get your answers, though.
Sarcasm Alert:
And the conglomerate is all about uncovering the truth, isn't it? Making the world a more truthful, safer place?
End of Sarcasm Alert.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, December 21, 2015 @ 8:31 a.m.
