It's a cultural-financial balance in effect.
Another issue is that this PC World Order requires people to identify one another on distinguishable physical characteristics relative to an identifiable group completely unrelated to someone's true individual personality or actions.
So, not only do optics substitute for the truth in this culture, but you consequently have a hierarchy of human categories based upon those current identification criteria.
Put another way, some characteristics are superior or take priority over others. So, Transgender > Gay > Woman > Black > Hispanic > Asian > Caucasian - and so forth and so on.
It has to be this way because when you have different categories, those categories then have to compete with one another for attention, federal money, moral recompense, etc. It's akin to a social justice food chain.
Essentially, Women's lives matter more than Black lives, particularly black male lives in that pecking order - and we are seeing that reflected not only with what happened at LSU - but also because of what happened at Baylor. We automatically assume that these young men committed the acts they are alleged to have committed due to their distinguishing characteristics, that is being black and being male. We assume that a woman of any race, even if she is Caucasian is more credible than a black male. And since optics are a preferred perception of reality to our culture rather than the truth, you basically have young men whom we assume are guilty, and therefore, responsibility lies with their superiors to provide counter-optics that reflect a specific amount of social justice in retaliation for the originally accused acts regardless of whether or not they are true and even if there is a lack of evidence thereof.
Talk about systemic stereotyping and discrimination - but you can't avoid it if you intend on identifying people by their distinguishing characteristics relative to group affiliations rather then by what distinguishes their personality and their character.as individual human beings.
And the media hounds on it because it works. It creates drama. As a result, Politicians can exploit it and use the changes in culture to ultimately make changes in the law.
That's why you end up with such a mess.
What really needs to be done at these times is to take each of these allegations on a case by case basis and respond on the basis of culpability; not optics. But that's not the society we live in today.
Les Miles has the privilege of being a white male, which means that, absent excellent results as a head football coach, he is no longer going to be employed by the University of Kansas when all is said and done.
It ultimately comes down to money and whether or not Kansas believes that the allegations against Les Miles will interfere with their bottom line. And in the culture we live in today, the optics probably will.
Now, I said all that to say all this: regardless if whether or not sensationalism is right or just, the media is just exploiting prejudices and cultural behaviors that are currently in existence. To change that means that we as human beings have to change society to one that values people by the content of their character rather than by their physical characteristics and always seeks to discover the truth.
"Smarter than the Average Bear."