“Accusers sometimes lie”. USC professor’s job looks safe after championing due process

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But in wake of uproar, USC had removed professors’ ability to send students emails en masse without vetting them first 

A USC professor who came under fire recently for telling students that “accusers sometimes lie” continues to teach at the private institution without interruption despite student protestors recently demanding he be fired for suggesting such a thing.

The school hasn’t signaled any disciplinary actions toward him after he recently came under scrutiny for sending out a school-wide email advocating for due process.

“I have not had any direct contact with the USC central administration since the protest on October 1,” public policy Professor James Moore told The College Fix via email.

“They have not said anything publicly, and they have not communicated with me privately, so I do not know their thinking on the matter,” Moore said. “So far as I know, no steps to terminate my faculty position are contemplated.”

He added that the only administrative feedback he has received has been from the dean of the USC Price School, Jack Knott. Knott, in an email to students, called Professor Moore’s statement that “accusers sometimes lie” both “insensitive and incendiary” and added that it “showed a lack of sensitivity to the current climate.”

The email in which Moore stated “accusers sometimes lie” was a response to another school-wide invitation to a Price Women and Allies event titled “Coffee and Title IX.” The invitation urged students to “believe survivors” on the day of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.  read more