PF1 Friday Mini: "Cornell 7" Lynch Mob

0:00Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Pod Force One. This feature is a little more topical and relevant to my day job as a columnist for the New York Post. Today the topic is the unseemly rushed to judgment in the Cornell 7 alleged gang rape case, and the toxic, porn-ified culture which has betrayed young women and men alike. The Cornell 7 gang rape case is descending into the same Lynch mob hysteria as the notorious Duke Lacrosse or Mattress Girl hoaxes of old, only with social media making everything worse. It seems we have learned nothing from past injustices. A young woman who goes by Jane Doe has filed a civil lawsuit two years after she alleged she was gangrapped by seven men in a sort of drug-fueled sexual encounter at the Chi Phi fraternity house at the elite Cornell University, where she was a student at the time.

1:06Predictably, the fraternity brothers have been judged guilty in the court of man hating public opinion. Yet, according to the Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Hoosen, citing Doe's sworn statement to campus investigators in November 2024, she quote described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious and consensual end quote. When she told the young men to stop, they did. While describing the allegations as quote heinous and despicable and morally disturbing, he said they were not criminal. He has been bombarded with threats and abuse since news of the lawsuit broke two weeks ago and has now reopened to the investigation, saying that her current lawsuit and her initial sworn statements signed under threat of perjury, three weeks after the 2024 encounter, till very different stories. The alleged rapists have been named and shamed by the Cornell campus newspaper The Daily Sun and Doxed Online. One of the men has already lost his job, and as the post reports, future students are abandoning Cornell over its handling of the case.

2:18Democrat Politico's have effectively condemned the men with Governor Kathy Hoekle this week praising Doe's quote extraordinary courage and demanding Cornell quote pursue justice. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to with the Quran sundown condemned the quote culture of rape that is protected in elite institutions like Cornell University. End quote. She said the men had been quote protected by Cornell and called the woman a quote survivor. Then AOC described herself as a survivor, saying she was quote touched inappropriately at her first college party. Ethic as a Democrat mayor, Robert Cantelmo, piled on damning the accused men as quote perpetrators and suspending Greek life at Cornell which he said quote failed to hold the perpetrators to account. End quote. But what else do people expect Cornell to have done? The school conducted a month's long investigation including a hearing where the men and Doe all testified.

3:20When Doe was interviewed by campus police, she was provided three support staff according to CBS News including a title nine investigator or victim advocate and a personal adviser. Cornell says that two men were expelled, two were suspended, one had already graduated and two were found not to have participated in the sex as well the fraternity was shut down. In her police interview Doe said quote I can say with 100% confidence I was raped according to CBS News but in the sworn statement summarizing the interview that she reviewed and signed and amended with more than 20 handwritten corrections, she says she did not withdraw her consent at any time ABC News reports. Further, whenever she expressed concerns the fraternity brothers quote stopped and did not pursue what they were doing. End quote. In her current lawsuit she claims she was incapable of consent was pressured into taking ketamine and became quote completely incapacitated.

4:26Three of the young men have denied the allegations through lawyers text messages between Doe and male one were released in which she told him after the event that she enjoyed being with him and suggested they smoked together again quote but like leave out the extra five billion men and ketamine. She also said quote none of the sexual stuff was illegal end quote. In her sworn statement she admitted to willingly engaging in two three sums during an hour's long encounter on October 19, 2024 in which she consumed alcohol and ketamine of her own free will describing her intoxication level when she arrived at the fraternity as a quote five out of ten. The first three sum ended prematurely when male one passed out and male two quote began to dry heavers if he was going to vomit end quote. Male three arrived and he and male two engaged in a three sum with her while male one slept. Male one then woke up and asked for a four sum to which she said quote hell no end quote and the men backed off.

5:29She told police she had agreed to the four sum quote due to how attracted she was to male number one on top of her drunken curiousness end quote. Four more men arrived in the room after male two to speakably announced on the fraternity snapchat that there was free pussy available male four asked if they quote could all do drugs off her perfect body Jane do responded sure she recounted another three sum quote until at some point around five forty five. Jane do said she was tired and needed to turn in at that point both guys stopped the three sum end quote none of us know the whole truth but the young woman deserved sympathy she was just 20 years old and intoxicated when she woke up the next day and realized she was the butt of campus gossip she felt ashamed but our culture tells young women that there's nothing shameful about promiscuity now to prize female modesty is called slut shaming and gay. And girls and young women are encouraged to behave like unpaid hookers when men take them at their word they often end up feeling used and disrespected so those friends encouraged her to convert her honestly earned shame into victimhood she blames the young men the bar that sold her alcohol her sorority the fraternity Cornell you name it everyone but herself for the bad choices she made that night the young men made bad choices to and I would be ashamed.

6:56And I would be ashamed to have sons who behaved that way but they were just as young and just as out of it as she was and don't deserve to have their lives ruined if the evidence shows they committed no crime. They're all victims of a toxic, porn-ified culture that sends our girls and boys into the world with no sexual boundaries other than wokified ideas of consent which makes no sense. The subtle taboos which used to protect young people from the consequences of their immaturity have been erased and now instead of preventing harm moral condemnation is applied cruelly after the fact. Doe felt it in the campus ridicule she found so intolerable that she had to leave Cornell and the men now feel it in the form of mob shaming that fits neatly into the leftist me to a narrative that says all men are rapists and we must quote believe all women. Life is more complicated than that. Thanks for listening I'll be back with another mini episode of Pod Force One on Monday. Hope you can tune in and enjoy the rest of your week.