Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - The 1 in 5 College Sexual Assault Myth Explained
Aired: 2016-02-17
Duration: 02:44


=== False Facts Exposed (02:42) ===

[00:00:01]  There's contradictions within Milo's speech in and of itself.
[00:00:06]  So for example, when Milo is talking about how there is no rape epidemic on campus, that rape essentially doesn't exist on college campuses, and obviously he's using entirely false facts.
[00:00:22]  Well, obviously his facts are false and your facts are correct.
[00:00:26]  But the thing is, I am such an asshole that I can't just take your word for it.
[00:00:30]  I've got to go and check.
[00:00:31]  I imagine that Milo was using this special report done by the US Department of Justice on rape and sexual assault victimization rates among college-age females between 1995 and 2013.
[00:00:43]  This study found that young women between 18 and 24 who were students were safer than those who were not students.
[00:00:51]  The rates of completed rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, or the threat of rape and sexual assault were 7.6 per thousand female students.
[00:01:01]  And for young women enrolled in college, this went down to 6.1 per thousand students.
[00:01:07]  This is less than 1%.
[00:01:10]  These are facts we can be certain of.
[00:01:12]  The only thing that is left out of these facts are the number of unreported sexual assaults and rapes, because obviously these are the reported ones.
[00:01:23]  And this is where hard data stops and social science begins.
[00:01:27]  Our feminist activist will be quoting from sources like this.
[00:01:31]  A report on the Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey on sexual assault and sexual misconduct.
[00:01:39]  Respondents were asked whether one or more of these sexual contacts occurred as a result of four tactics.
[00:01:44]  One, physical force or threat of physical force.
[00:01:47]  Two, being incapacitated because of drugs, alcohol or being unconscious, asleep or passed out.
[00:01:53]  Three, coercive threats of non-physical harm or promised rewards.
[00:01:57]  And four, failure to obtain affirmative consent.
[00:02:01]  The first two tactics generally meet legal definitions of rape and sexual battery.
[00:02:06]  The other two tactics are violation of student codes of conduct.
[00:02:09]  And it is unsurprisingly this massive inflation of what is and is not sexual assault that accounts for the one in five figure.
[00:02:18]  Like they said, half of their categories don't even fall under the legal definition of sexual assault or rape.
[00:02:24]  And failure to obtain affirmative consent doesn't even mean the person wasn't consenting.
[00:02:31]  Therefore, including that in any results is going to be inherently misleading.
[00:02:36]  And finally, these surveys are not facts.
[00:02:40]  We do not know whether the answers given on them are true or false.