Great, now everyone on the right, from normally reasonable moderates to liberty-conservatives are basically all a bunch of culture-war-fighting robots that treat deep emotional trauma and real sexual assault as a joke. Looks like the right will soon be completely emotionally bankrupt in the whole world, not just in my own country.
Yes. Unlike so many on the right (and some on the left), I don't cynically use sexual assault allegations. When something has even a shred of credibility, it mustn't be dismissed, but this thing is so painfully political and lacking any credibility that I won't believe it until he presents anything that supports the claim.
I’m not interested in your subjective opinion of what defines credibility nor do I care for your quick deflection of this story into an attack on ‘the right’.
Try thinking critically, considerately, empathetically, and try to be as unbiased as possible. This is serious sh**t.
You know exactly what I mean. The difference between the highly political language of this allegation and Ford's emotional testimony is like the difference between an ant and an elephant. Trying to spin this into some trashing of the very important #metoo movement is highly cynical.
This is, indeed, serious sh**t, and when posters mock an entire movement that is so important for so many traumatized women as a joke, I can't not call them out.
Basically in your mind, in order to be taken seriously, you must be a woman, and you must be a shriveled, terrified, emotional wreck when coming forward.
Perhaps since this was an allegation against a prominent politician that occurred at a political event in the workplace to a politically engaged fan of the alleged perpetrator could explain the political language. Just a thought.
While this certainly could be possible, there are:
--zero concrete details
--no record of the event in question (checking on the Wayback machine, I cannot find any information of an event that fits his description for the summer of 2014)
--differing accounts on the victim's age
--zero receipts for the communications with Farrow
--odd and questionable language throughout
--use of the twitter handle 'The Deep Throat' and several Nietzsche quotes
To say that this case is very odd is an understatement. But if the victim comes forward and gives out details, then I'll be willing to admit that I'm wrong. However, as it stands, this is an anonymous allegation. I don't give those any stock unless there's a wealth of details and information.
