Remember when Barack Obama promised to heal our land? Well, during his Presidency, America did not exactly experience a surge of unity. In fact, the level of strife between blacks and whites, men and women, Democrats and Republicans skyrocketed. One of the sources of contention was that the Obama administration pushed the false narrative that we live in a "rape culture." According to PJ Media, the Department of Education told us that "one quarter of women would be raped or sexually assaulted on college campuses, and that colleges could not trust the police to handle these crimes. This created a perverse system of campus tribunals which denied due process rights to (mostly) men accused of sexual assault."

This essentially created a male-hating "sex bureaucracy," which attempted "a full takeover of young people's sex lives through moral strictures that trample free speech and the due process of law." On Friday, The New York Times reported on an internal memo showing that the Trump administration is overhauling this unfair bureaucracy. Though the Times described Trump's efforts as "scaling back investigations into civil rights violations at the nation's public schools and universities," this is actually a great stride forward in liberty for all. PJ Media reports:

The memo, written by Candice Jackson, the acting head of the DOE's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), reversed one part of the Obama administration's campus sexual assault policies, but it is an important first step in reforming the system. Under Obama, OCR investigated colleges when women accusers claimed the colleges were too lax on the men they accused of sexual assault.

"Whenever they had an allegation by some student that her Title IX rights had been violated by a college, they would not only look into the particulars of her complaint and fault the college for not giving her what she wanted, but they would launch a systematic investigation going back for years," Stuart Taylor, co-author of the book The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities, told PJ Media. "They would even pressure the colleges to retry accused males who had been found innocent before, exposing these guys to double jeopardy."

Here's the kicker:

This practice demonstrated the "rape culture" narrative's insistence on over-exaggerating the likelihood of sexual assault on campus, and pushing the idea that every woman who accuses a man of sexual assault should receive the benefit of the doubt. In fact, almost nine out of ten colleges reported zero sexual assaults in 2015.

Getting rid of false narratives and gender-biased tribunals will go a long way toward actually healing our land.

Image Credit: Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy

h/t PJ Media