Learning From The Three Little Pigs

And Human Rights Departments

The Human Rights Department at a university is that curious corner of academia where they have binders of rules, but they are in a mouldy box under cleaning supplies in the corner; nobody knows they are there.

In my experience, the rules are treated with contempt; there is no compulsion to check their authority to see if they are being followed - all the while, the universities have unlimited money for lawyers, the strength and time to take on and abuse enemies, acting on administrator’s vendettas while and using the taxpayer as their financial backstop. That power must be distracting.

Simply put, human rights policies or any that can’t be (or is impossibly difficult) enforced due to lack of an enforcement mechanism don’t matter.  

I’ve tried. 

When my university’s well-paid and ‘non-partisan’ investigator accuses you of time travel - going back in time before you had heard of someone to plant anti-semitic posts on that person’s LI - the organisation is hopefully corrupt and has broken d…