The Diversity Delusion by Heather Mac Donald

Author:Heather Mac Donald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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ROLLING STONE’S UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA GANG RAPE FICTION AND THE REAL WORLD

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Skepticism should have greeted Rolling Stone’s now-infamous 2014 story about gang rape at the University of Virginia, which collapsed once Charlottesville police got involved. The story was patently the product of a delusional mind, depicting a level of grotesque violence that is unheard of on college campuses. According to the magazine’s almost sole source—the victim, a freshman called “Jackie” in the story—she was escorted into a pitch-black room in the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity during a party on September 28, 2012. A huge male student immediately tackled her and sent her crashing through a glass table. A group of eight males then punched and gagged her, while one shouted: “Grab its motherfucking leg.” She is sexually assaulted for hours, including with a beer bottle when one of the frat brothers was unable to get an erection.

Afterward, bloodied and shaking, Jackie seeks help from her best friends. They tell her not to report the rape, however, because it will reflect badly on the University of Virginia and damage their own hopes of joining a Greek house and being admitted to high-prestige frat parties. The campus administrators responded just as callously, according to Jackie, allegedly conceding that they suppress rape incidents to protect the University of Virginia’s reputation.

If such a tale bore any relation to reality, parents would have demanded the creation of single-sex schools where their daughters could study in safety. And yet the Rolling Stone story was greeted with triumphant elation by the campus rape industry and with reluctant credulity even by conservative academics and journalists. Finally, we were told, we were seeing the ugly reality behind the fantastical statistics about college rape. The University of Virginia went into a paroxysm of self-flagellation; its president suspended all activities of its fraternities and sororities.

The demolition of the University of Virginia gang rape hoax drove a stake through Rolling Stone’s credibility. Its reporter, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, ignored almost every journalistic canon, failing even to seek out Jackie’s alleged assailants in order to get their side of the story. It turned out that those assailants didn’t exist.

The Rolling Stone fiction was treated as truth, however, because feminists have convinced a large swath of society that we live in a “rape culture,” where women are perpetual victims and men are assailants in waiting. Indeed, so strong is the feminist lock on our culture that the Charlottesville police chief was unwilling to close the case, even though nothing was left of it.

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