That was a different one, in California. Duke Lacrosse was a crazy girl accusing a lacrosse team of raping her, immediately after which a ton of the faculty wrote a full page advertisement in the local paper saying the story was true and Duke was full of misogyny and racism. The departmental makeup of the signing professors breaks down pretty much exactly as you'd expect, and if you didn't know the girl was black, you could figure it out by the number of signing African American Studies professors. The story received significant national coverage. Pretty much everyone involved acted like it was definitely true and proceeded to do their best to destroy the lives of the accused and anyone vaguely near them. This was all before any sort of investigation, because evidence is just the tool of the patriarchy. Then it ends up the location she claimed it happened in didn't exist, the guys couldn't have possibly been there, and there wasn't enough time for it to have happened. She went on to stab her boyfriend to death (Who must have been the stupidest man alive) a few years later. The professors who signed the first newspaper letter calling a bunch of innocent men rapists then went on to write and publish a second letter saying they weren't sorry and Duke was still full of racism and sexism.

That was a different one, in California. Duke Lacrosse was a crazy girl accusing a lacrosse team of raping her in a basement on broken glass, immediately after which a ton of the faculty wrote a full page advertisement in the local paper saying the story was true and Duke was full of misogyny and racism. The departmental makeup of the signing professors breaks down pretty much exactly as you'd expect, and if you didn't know the girl was black, you could figure it out by the number of signing African American Studies professors. The story received significant national coverage, including from Rolling Stone I think. Pretty much everyone involved acted like it was definitely true and proceeded to do their best to destroy the lives of the accused and anyone vaguely near them. This was all before any sort of investigation, because evidence is just the tool of the patriarchy. Then it ends up the location she claimed it happened in didn't exist, the guys couldn't have possibly been there, and there wasn't enough time for it to have happened. She went on to stab her boyfriend to death (Who must have been the stupidest man alive) a few years later. The professors who signed the first newspaper letter calling a bunch of innocent men rapists then went on to write and publish a second letter saying they weren't sorry and Duke was still full of racism and sexism.