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@cornelluniversity is our #1 focus rn cause it’s an incubator for the men who are in charge now. Chant by @lastesis 🚨🚨🚨Ladies, we are at a tipping point and a paradigm shift is possible. 🔥💜🔥 Stay lit. ➡️ The Cornell Chi Phi case is a pressure point because the evidence is already public: the group chat shows men treating an assault as something to join, not stop. It shows the gaps in current law, and each gap is something that can be changed.Where pressure changes outcomes:🔥Criminal reopening. The Tompkins County DA declined charges. New York has no statute of limitations for first-degree rape, and the chat screenshots are now public record. Sustained public pressure plus any new evidence can push a reopening. A conviction of the chat participants for soliciting the assault, following the Vanderbilt precedent, would tell every frat house that encouraging an assault is treated as committing it.🔥A New York bystander law. New York has no duty to report or render aid. Massachusetts passed one after the Big Dan’s Tavern case, so a New York version could plausibly be named after this one. The goal is to make “watched and did nothing” a crime instead of a non-event.🔥Civil money as deterrent. If the civil suit reaches the national fraternity and Cornell, not just the individuals, the institutions that insure and house these organizations start paying. Insurers then force policy changes faster than administrators do.🔥Title IX / OCR complaints. Federal findings against Cornell set a compliance standard other campuses have to meet.🔥💜🔥 The ERA. Sex discrimination currently gets weaker constitutional scrutiny than race. With the ERA certified, Congress would have firmer authority to rebuild the federal civil remedy for gender violence that the Supreme Court struck down in Morrison. Contact @eracoalition to find out more. How the world would change 🔥🔥🔥Bystanders would become legally liable. Institutions would become financially liable. Survivors would get a civil remedy that doesn’t depend on a DA’s decision. The current arrangement, where only the assailant faces risk and everyone around him faces none, would stop working.View all 4,521 comments
