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No one, looking at what’s been reported about Reade and Biden, can claim to have more than a hunch about what happened, which is why, I suspect, a lot of mainstream feminists haven’t said much about it. Writers on the left and the right purport to find their silence damning: So liberal feminists don’t “believe women” after all!
There have been a number of sneering columns accusing liberal feminists of hypocrisy for not championing Reade as fervently as they did Christine Blasey Ford, who claimed, during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination fight, that he’d sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school. It’s a sly rhetorical move that dares feminists to violate their own ideals by publicly weighing one woman’s credibility against another.
The truth is, if Blasey had been so inconsistent in telling her story, feminists might still have believed her, but they likely wouldn’t have made her a cause célèbre, and Democrats on Capitol Hill never would have invited her to testify publicly. Advocates for victims of sexual harassment and assault would worry that using such an ambiguous case as a political weapon would undermine their cause.
Personally, I’m just left with doubt: doubt about Biden and doubt about the charges against him. But the one thing I have little doubt about is the bad faith of those using this strange, sad story to hector feminists into pretending to a certainty they have no reason to feel.
This complaint?
Did you know that Tara Reade has now filed a police complaint in relation to this incident?
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She filed a police report in Washington on Thursday saying she was the victim of a sexual assault by an unnamed person in 1993, a copy of which was obtained by the AP.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: IAMALLYETALLIAM
She will be vilified and castigated because you NEVER accuse a leftist ass-waffle of anything bad.
EVER!
What's the ####ing point of having a two-tiered justice system if you can't get away with stuff and ruin the life of your accuser???
"C'mon MAN! She was Askin' for it!"
-Joey "The Penis" Biden
originally posted by: IAMALLYETALLIAM
a reply to: DBCowboy
#taradidntkillherself
Agree.
Allegations should also be kept confidential until such time as they have had an opportunity to be addressed through proper legal channels as opposed to the court of public opinion.
originally posted by: ColoradoJens
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: IAMALLYETALLIAM
She will be vilified and castigated because you NEVER accuse a leftist ass-waffle of anything bad.
EVER!
What's the ####ing point of having a two-tiered justice system if you can't get away with stuff and ruin the life of your accuser???
"C'mon MAN! She was Askin' for it!"
-Joey "The Penis" Biden
Why mention one political party? It is the same approach regardless of "party".
To insinuate only one political party does this is juvenile.
Are you implying republicans have never "destroyed" someone who has come forward with an allegation? If you give an example and then say "but they were guilty" than you more than prove my point.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
*cough*
Kavenaugh
*cough*
originally posted by: Edumakated
Democrats are the ones who are constantly yelling about women's rights, inequality, sexual harassment, etc. They were the ones saying we have to "believe all women". Anyone who questioned the accusers was branded as being insensitive or not hearing their "truth".
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, the NY Times and the rest of the hypocrites all of a sudden want to ask tough questions.
“If you drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.”
originally posted by: IAMALLYETALLIAM
a reply to: ColoradoJens
If it were kept confidential I wouldn't have an opinion. Didn't say I was above voicing it.
But here we are....kind of proves my point. Thanks.