Once again, conservatives and Republicans demonstrate themselves in this thread to be horrible and shameless apologists for sexual assault so long as it increases their political power.
It’s not being an apologist if you believe someone is not guilty .
The highlighted sentence begs for recognition.
I have had my doubts about Kavanaugh. I am not convinced that Blasey Ford is lying. I base that on the content of her therapists notes that have come out. I am not convinced that Blasey Ford isn't so screwed up, mentally, as to have skewed memories. But I'm certainly convinced that Blasey Ford has been traumatized somehow. When one's own father repudiates you to the national media, that's an indication of a tortured soul.
That we might not want to elevate Kavanaugh to the High Court in light of Blasey Ford's testimony is understandable. He doesn't have a right to be there, and I don't find Kavanaugh to be this admirable figure; he's the kind of privileged drunken frat boy who often ends up in situations as Blasey Ford describes (which, of course, is not evidence of Kavanaugh's guilt). And while I welcome the fact that Kavanaugh doesn't have one of these Intersectional world views, I find the Frat Boy world view to be the crappy other end of that spectrum. So I would have not voted to confirm Kavanaugh, all things considered.
But I'm not going to treat him as a rapist, either. The allegation is decades old. There was no going to the police. There is no probable cause; there is only Blasey Ford's accusation, and some therapeutic notes as a "sort of" corroboration. Sexual assault is a problem in our society, but Guilt By Accusation is not the solution to that problem; it's the creation of an even greater wrong.
Thank you for digging this awful thread out of its grave for no reason.
