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MILO YIANNOPOULOS: Why Do Feminists Cook Up Stories About ‘Misogyny’ When They Lose Debates? To garner sympathy and attention, of course. I’ve often found that when lefties complain about all the “abuse” they’ve received on Twitter, an examination of the actual tweets reveals nothing more than simple disagreement.

UPDATE: From the comments:

Why Do Feminists Cook Up Stories About Misogyny When They Lose Debates?

Because feminism, in its current incarnation, rests massively on a presumption of male chivalry.

A strong, independent, woman doesn’t need to be “paid as much as a man”. If she’s unhappy with her pay, she’ll go out and find another employer who’ll pay her what she’s worth.

A strong, independent, woman doesn’t care what some idiot on the internet says about her. She knows her own worth as a human being and can judge the world and what people say accordingly.

A strong, independent, woman doesn’t need to have her sexuality mired in victimhood. She owns her sexuality and, if she makes mistakes, owns those as well.

Modern feminism, in contrast, relies almost entirely on the notion of women as children, without intellectual or moral agency. If something makes them unhappy, Daddy (or his surrogate) has got to come and make a woman’s boo-boos all better.

Chivalry.

WHEN YOU CAN’T WIN ANY ARGUMENTS, IT’S BEST TO MAKE SURE YOU DON’T FACE ANY: Return of the Speech Police: In 2012 It Was The IRS. In 2016 It Will Be The Justice Department. “You won’t read much about it in the Beltway press corps, but a behind-the-scenes effort is under way to lobby the Federal Election Commission and Justice Department to stifle free political speech the way the Internal Revenue Service did in 2012. Don’t be surprised if the subpoenas hit Republican candidates at crucial political moments. . . . In September 2011, Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center wrote to then IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner requesting an IRS probe into whether “certain organizations are ineligible for tax exempt status under section 501(c)(4).” Around the same time, the IRS created its process that targeted conservative groups. The same outfits are back at it, filling the FEC’s docket with complaints that target Republicans or GOP-leaning organizations 75% or more of the time.”

Yes, the Wisconsin John Doe thuggery was a model. Best to make examples of its perpetrators, and make clear to these bureaucrats that their lives and careers will suffer from similar action. The GOP, however, seems largely hapless in the face of these machinations.

K.C. JOHNSON: Amherst’s Version of Kafka’s ‘The Trial.’

Kafka was born too early to write about Amherst College. At campus hearings on claims of sexual assault, procedures are relentlessly stacked again males and evidence of innocence doesn’t count. Amherst expelled a student for committing rape—despite text messages from the accuser, sent immediately after the alleged assault, (1) telling one student that she had initiated the sexual contact with the student she later accused (her roommate’s boyfriend); (2) inviting another student to her room for a sexual liaison minutes after she was allegedly raped.

Amherst, on grounds that the accused student (who, per college policy, had no attorney) didn’t discover the text messages until it was too late, has allowed the rape finding to stand, even though the college’s decision relied on the accuser’s credibility (which is now non-existent). Amherst faces a due-process lawsuit in the case. . . .

The expelled student’s complaint begins by noting the hostile campus attitude toward due process—both from pressure from the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, and because of a highly-publicized 2012 article from a student and self-described “survivor” who claimed that the college mistreated her. (Wendy Kaminer summarized the case in The Atlantic.) The outcry prompted Amherst to cancel classes for a day to discuss the issue, led to the forced resignation of the college’s sexual assault coordinator, and caused Amherst to change its sexual assault adjudication procedures to focus on “empowering victims,” rather than on, say, pursuing fairness and justice in its hearings.

These procedures, unsurprisingly, are wildly one-sided.

Related: Man receives sex act while blacked out, gets accused of sexual assault. Men are always responsible. Women are never responsible. Because equality!

THIS IS NOTHING NEW FOR THE UNITED NATIONS: UN peacekeepers forced hundreds of Haitian women to have sex with them in return for food and medicine according to report that found exploitation is widespread, with a third of victims under-18.

Was it Emergency Sex?

Related: The White Savior Industrial Complex.

FUNNY, I SEEM TO RECALL PEOPLE CALLING THIS “TERRORISM” WHEN A REPUBLICAN SENATE MINORITY DID IT: Top Senate Dem warns GOP: Deal now on spending limits or face shutdown.

Personally, I think a shutdown is fine, and Republicans should loudly blame it on Democrats’ desire to tax and spend.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Everyone wants college to be “free, like in Europe,” but nobody wants to adopt the European college system.

BALTIMORE: THINGS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE FOR MARILYN MOSBY: Mistakes like this aren’t unheard of in litigation, but they smack of amateurism. “Marilyn Mosby, the prosecutor in the Freddie Gray case, continues to make news for all the wrong reasons. First, her motion for a gag order in the case was dismissed because she filed it in the wrong court. . . . Second, it has been revealed that Mosby directed Baltimore police to ramp up narcotics patrols with increased ‘targeting’ at an intersection near where Freddie Gray was arrested. Mosby’s directive does not, of course, bear on the question of whether police officers committed crimes in their treatment of Gray after he was arrested. An order to ramp up patrols isn’t an invitation to injure people. However, Mosby’s directive seems to undercut what’s left of the criminal charges she filed in connection with Gray’s arrest, as opposed to his treatment thereafter.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Law School Applications Fall 5%; Al Brophy: We’ve Hit The Bottom.

CAN SWEETBRIAR COLLEGE BE SAVED? Virginia Supreme Court Rules that Sweet Briar College Can Be a Trust.

MORE HUGO FALLOUT: Why Science Fiction Authors Are Angry At Tor Books. “Regardless of intent, the whole situation has become a mess.”

TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF ISRAEL’S VICTORY IN THE SIX DAY WAR: In observation thereof, I recommend Steven Pressfield’s The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War.

HIP HOLLYWOOD: Double Standard: Would Hope Solo still be playing if she were a black male athlete?

TO BE FAIR, IT USUALLY DOES: The Jonathan Chait Award for Willful Misreading goes to Jonathan Chait.

LIFE IN OBAMA’S AMERICA: NPR’s Diane Rehm Has A List Of Suspicious Jews Who Should Be Watched. “Rehm, by the way, is no stranger to anti-Israel rhetoric. But I’d categorize her past framing of the issue as run-of-the-mill progressive fare. The question is: how could a mainstream media personality, one that has interviewed basically every political personality in the past 30 years, so casually level such a silly conspiratorial assertion?”

Because this is who they are, and this is what they do. Note that the source for this Helen Thomas-like assault was a “comment on Facebook.” Journalism!

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CRITICIZE SOCCER CORRUPTION IN YOUR NATIVE COUNTRY, AND THIS HAPPENS: Legislators vote to pull Compass advertising. “Legislators voted on Monday to pull Government advertising and cease any commercial activity with the Cayman Compass newspaper in response to an editorial which Premier Alden McLaughlin has described as ‘treasonous.’ The premier again condemned the editorial about corruption in the territory, published Wednesday, June 3, saying it was a ‘full frontal assault on the Cayman Islands and its people’ as he gave his support to economic sanctions against the newspaper. Following the premier’s accusations on Friday, Mr. Legge and his wife, co-publisher Vicki Legge, were placed under police protection and left the island temporarily. . . . Mr. McLean’s relationship with the newspaper has been strained since last year when he was the subject of news stories and editorials that revealed that he had used his government credit card to buy a diamond-studded ladies watch. Mr. McLean, who defended himself at the time by producing receipts to show he had paid the money back, said his bringing the motion was not personal and denied that it was an effort to suppress freedom of the press.”

One of the attractions of Cayman has always been that it seemed very first-world and civilized. This, not so much. Here’s an earlier article from the New York Times.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG! Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or #Strangeloop vs. Curtis Yarvin). Social justice warriors want to silence all argument, because, well, they’re not very good at winning actual arguments.

Related, from Slate: The Curious Case of Mencius Moldbug: A software engineer’s odious political writing got him booted from a tech conference. It shouldn’t have. “Strange Loop’s rationale is cowardly and irresponsible, but what gets me more is the disingenuousness of people who say that Yarvin’s speech should be censored.”

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Women Who Shave.

VIDEO: Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos vs ‘Educator’ on Sexism in Science Debate.

UPDATE: Related thoughts from Ace.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is the New York Times actually hurting Hillary with its pathetic attacks on Marco Rubio?

SO WHICH WOULD AMERICA BE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH? A GAY-MARRIED PRESIDENT, or an unmarried President?

AND WHEN IT’S NOT, THEY INCREASINGLY TUNE OUT: Studies Show When Government Is Skeptical About Climate Change, People Listen.

THIS MAKES ME PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN: Man washing massive monster truck mistaken for plane crash. “The Springfield News-Leader reports Darnell had recently raced the vehicle on a dirt course, so it needed to be washed. The vehicle can reach 376 miles per hour and in order to wash the 36,000-horsepower truck, Darnell has to use jet engines, which make a lot of noise and create white smoke. . . . Darnell said he takes Shockwave to truck shows across the country, where it does things like setting stacks of cars on fire or racing fighter planes.”