The acronym 2SLGBTQ + IA stands for two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, androgynous, and asexual. The 2SLGBTQ+IA community is often described as seeking “rights and equality” for its members. What fair-minded person could object? Increasingly, however, the community appears to want privileges and equity
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Social justice warriors accuse the police of systemic racism. At the same time, they push revolutionary changes in police procedure that cement extreme bias into the very structure of law enforcement—a bias that will fall heavily upon black men. It is called victim-centered justice, and
Politics moves from campus to Main Street. The next political attack is likely to be on due process—the foundation of Western justice itself. Much depends on which side of the current debate on campus sexual misconduct hearings wins. Does a person accused of sexual misconduct deserve due process in the investigation and hearing that determine his
Presidential election 2020 is the same as every other, except in the ways it isn’t. Allow me to expand on this. What is the same? The purpose of all elections is to allow a band of people called the state to legitimize their claim of control over everyone and everything within a given jurisdiction. In his book The Rise and Fall of Society , the
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. “ T rauma-informed justice ” has percolated in academia and activism for decades. It is now knocking on the door of local police departments to demand changes that could upend the basics of how people relate to law enforcement. The approach converts the police into social workers or
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. President Joe Biden vowed to put a “quick end” to the Trump administration’s Title IX regulations and return to Obama-era ones at universities. If this happens, the sexual misconduct hearings will be deeply impacted. These “trials” judge whether those accused of sexual misconduct are
On September 22, President Trump signed the Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. The order speaks of “race or sex stereotyping,” which is defined as the act of “ascribing character traits, values, moral and ethical codes, privileges, status, or beliefs to a race or sex, or to an individual because of his or her race or sex.”
Las siglas 2SLGBTQ+IA significan dos espíritus, lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transexuales, queer, cuestionadores, intersexuales, andróginos y asexuales. A menudo se dice que la comunidad 2SLGBTQ+IA busca «derechos e igualdad» para sus miembros. ¿Qué persona justa podría oponerse? Sin embargo, cada vez más, la comunidad parece querer también
Los guerreros de la justicia social acusan a la policía de racismo sistémico. Al mismo tiempo, impulsan cambios revolucionarios en los procedimientos policiales que consolidan un sesgo extremo en la propia estructura de la aplicación de la ley, un sesgo que recaerá en gran medida sobre los hombres negros. Se llama justicia centrada en la víctima,
La política se traslada del campus al Main Street. Es probable que el próximo ataque político se dirija al debido proceso—el fundamento de la propia justicia occidental. Mucho depende de qué lado del actual debate sobre las audiencias por mala conducta sexual en los campus gane. ¿Merece una persona acusada de mala conducta sexual el debido proceso
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