Campus assaults as loyalty tests

Allegations of sexual assault at elite universities are increasingly treated not as legal claims but as binary public loyalty tests: people are pressured to either unqualifiedly support the accuser as a political signal or to reject them to signal independence. Social platforms amplify this by incentivizing rapid, moralized takes, doxxing, and image manipulation, which corrodes due process and discourages nuanced discussion. — If true, the framing shifts how universities, courts, and the public respond to allegations — privileging performative moral clarity over investigation, which has consequences for justice, campus governance, and free speech.