Leftist students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City are crying foul against any school official who uses the term “alleged” when speaking about an alleged rape on campus. To them, using neutral terms such as this is equal to “victim-blaming” even if it’s proven that a rape didn’t occur. Welcome to University Logic 101.

A request has been made by these social justice warriors that a student board be given power to fire officials who use terms like “alleged rape.” The College Fix has the particulars:

Students at the University of Missouri, Kansas City could soon decide to boot staff and administrators responsible for “victim-blaming and invalidation of rape” if officials accede to the latest demands of campus activists.

One object of students’ ire: an email from Vice Chancellor Mel Tyler in which he “routinely” referred to an alleged rape as “alleged.”

They are also upset that the reported rape went unacknowledged by administrators for two days after local media began reporting on it...

A proposal circulated by students at the meeting accused administrators of “victim-blaming.” They said by “routinely prefacing the word ‘rape’ with the word ‘alleged,’” Tyler’s email and “University News articles” had committed “invalidation of rape.”

(The campus newspaper also had trouble consistently describing the reported encounter, twice describing the rape as “alleged” and four times referring to the anonymous accuser as a “victim.” It also called the charged man a “perpetrator.”)

The case in question involves a 22-year-old illegal alien who has been charged with one count of rape against a UMKC student, according to The Kansas City Star. Court documents, which also uses terms like “alleged” and “reportedly” because that’s how it works, states Juan D. Contreras, of Greeley, Colorado, was drinking with the “alleged victim” and two other people at a club near the university on February 23. The “alleged victim” allowed Contreras to buy her a drink and said after consuming it, she couldn’t remember anything until she woke up the next morning, partially clothed, next to Contreras in her dorm room. She asked what happened and he “reportedly told her that he had sex with her, according to the allegations.” The woman began hitting Contreras. The trial in this case is still forthcoming.

And until a verdict is reached, this rape remains “alleged” and the woman remains an “alleged victim.” If the evidence convinces the jury that Contreras is guilty, then it’s no longer an “alleged rape.” Of course, it could also be proven that rape didn’t occur and then end of story. But liberals must always hijack the language and focus the attention on their agenda instead of supporting actual victims of rape.

H/T PJ Media