Liberal logic 101: Imprison innocent black men in order to scare others straight

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The title is simply an extrapolation of what Ezra Klein is arguing we do with innocent men accused of rape. We can take his logic of convicting and punishing innocent people in all manner of circumstances in order to send messages to the groups that they represent:

Unlike his colleagues, Klein does not wave away the possibility that California’s law might encounter operational snags if students fail to change their sexual practices to comport with the state’s stringent standards. Instead, he acknowledges the downsides but accepts them as “a necessarily extreme solution to an extreme problem.” He concedes that it will result in more innocent people being prosecuted by universities as rapists, and that the miscarriages of justice it yields are not merely an acceptable price, but actually a positive result:

To work, "Yes Means Yes" needs to create a world where men are afraid. ...

Critics worry that colleges will fill with cases in which campus boards convict young men (and, occasionally, young women) of sexual assault for genuinely ambiguous situations. Sadly, that's necessary for the law's success. It's those cases — particularly the ones that feel genuinely unclear and maybe even unfair, the ones that become lore in frats and cautionary tales that fathers e-mail to their sons — that will convince men that they better Be Pretty Damn Sure.​

It's now necessary to convict innocent men of rape in order to get other men to be ever more careful.

Hey you Japanese Roboticists, hurry up with the Sex Dolls.

 

[asaratis]

Liberal logic is an oxymoron.