Hey, Men: "Shut Up" and "Step Up"
I.e.: do as you're told
Counterpoint: get bent.
Speaking for myself, I won't shut up, and I certainly won't shut up and "step up"...given that that means: do what we say and believe these unsubstantiated allegations. And don't give us any lip about it.
That press conference is a nauseating joke, and it illustrates pretty well why the Dems are losing me and people like me. To some extent it's just cynical political expediency...I've learned to live with that. But to some extent I think they really believe the bullshit they're spouting. That's the scary thing. They aren't entirely separated from the PC left.
Slow down...investigate...keep an open mind...try to find the truth. But don't preach to me your trickle-down radical feminist nuttery.
Men are the problem? You want to play that apocalyptic game, then perhaps you should recognize that, without false accusations made by women, this particular problem would basically go away. Nobody thinks this kind of assault is permissible. We just don't know whether it actually happened. We also know that the left is addicted to false accusations--to some extent simply as a means to achieve their political ends. (Though I suspect that doesn't matter in the Ford case.)
The Merrick Garland thing sucked...but at least it was kind of straight-up power politics. This stuff is even worse in my book. (Well...in some ways, anyway.)
Counterpoint: get bent.
Speaking for myself, I won't shut up, and I certainly won't shut up and "step up"...given that that means: do what we say and believe these unsubstantiated allegations. And don't give us any lip about it.
That press conference is a nauseating joke, and it illustrates pretty well why the Dems are losing me and people like me. To some extent it's just cynical political expediency...I've learned to live with that. But to some extent I think they really believe the bullshit they're spouting. That's the scary thing. They aren't entirely separated from the PC left.
Slow down...investigate...keep an open mind...try to find the truth. But don't preach to me your trickle-down radical feminist nuttery.
Men are the problem? You want to play that apocalyptic game, then perhaps you should recognize that, without false accusations made by women, this particular problem would basically go away. Nobody thinks this kind of assault is permissible. We just don't know whether it actually happened. We also know that the left is addicted to false accusations--to some extent simply as a means to achieve their political ends. (Though I suspect that doesn't matter in the Ford case.)
The Merrick Garland thing sucked...but at least it was kind of straight-up power politics. This stuff is even worse in my book. (Well...in some ways, anyway.)
posted by Winston Smith at
9:12 AM
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from a previous Kavanaugh post:
"... false accusations are the very lifeblood of the PC left..."
"... given that false accusations of many kinds are now used routinely as weapons/tools over there...."
from here:
" We also know that the left is addicted to false accusations--to some extent simply as a means to achieve their political ends."
mind providing some specific examples of recent sexual assault allegations that were both a) false and b) made to achieve political ends?
They're easily-available, and many of them are documented here...but, yeah, I do mind hunting them up.
One list of hate crime hoaxes is on Moonbattery.
Okay, but neither this hate crime hoax list nor the UVA/duke lacrosse cases substantiate the claim I'm questioning.
I'm looking for evidence that false sexual assault allegations are routinely used as a tool to achieve political ends. By "political ends", I'm talking about gaining actual political power - who serves in elected/appointed offices.
That hate hoax list has some "local NAACP chair claims racism" and some "college student claims rape by unidentified assailants", but I couldn't find anything there to substantiate the claim I'm questioning.
As a side note, this article goes into detail about what types of people tend to make false allegations and the motivations behind it (includes discussion of UVA and Duke cases, since you love talking about them). The same author addressed the specific Kavanuagh claims here
>I'm looking for evidence that false sexual assault allegations are routinely used as a tool to achieve political ends.
Well, that's not what I wrote. What I wrote was:
"We also know that the left is addicted to false accusations--to some extent simply as a means to achieve their political ends."
So that isn't specifically about accusations of sexual assault--it's, rather, a claim about false accusations more generally. The point is, rather, that I'm not sure we can rule out the use of allegations of sexual assault, too.
Furthermore, I'm not limiting *political ends* to merely shooting down candidates nor targeting candidates. Rather, the widespread use of false accusations of racism, "transphobia", misogyny, and all the rest are used, e.g., as means of silencing opposition and achieving political ends, e.g. on campus. Cases of faked acts of violence are also aimed at achieving their ends by promoting the false view that their opponents are unusually violent.
My point was: the left's spastic, indiscriminate use of such accusations is *to some extent* a means of achieving political ends, and their radically relaxed standards for what counts as sexual assault have already led to crazy accusations. Directly using such an accusation as a way to torpedo a SCOTUS candidate wouldn't be entirely out of keeping with their current practice.
That is: we now have additional concerns about such accusations that wouldn't have been reasonable ten years ago--though these are not the main concerns.
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