https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/02/brock-turner-released-jail-sexual-assault-stan
One of the most current and obvious examples of Sexism on campus is the Turner V. The People case. Where a white, middle class bloke raped a woman on campus and essentially got away with it.
This is interesting because it provides us with the blatant evidence that sexism and rape culture is alive and rife in this day and age.
This could be essential to our project because it provides us with an extreme example of how University officials, staff and at some point even students prioritise a white man's dreams over basic law and order/ right and wrong.
We could even dig further and easily find the evidence to say that if rapey Brock had been a Black bloke from a less affluent background he would have, not only served his full sentence, but perhaps even got a longer sentence. Black Brock also would have definitely not have been backed by the American media. This is because, to me, their hierarchical backing goes like this:
White Rich Men
White Poor Men/White Rich Women
White Poor Women
Rich Black Men
Poor Black Men/Rich Black Women
Poor Black Women
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