Some #MeToo advocates get a wakeup call
This is exactly why due process matters. It’s not just an altruistic abstraction. The crocodile may eat you and your loved ones last, but the crocodile will eat you because it’s insatiably hungry:
A few days ago, Lisa Borders, the CEO of Time’s Up, a group affiliated with the #MeToo movement to fight for victims of sexual harassment and abuse, resigned from her position. The reason was startling. Her son, Garry “Dijon” Bowden Jr., had been accused of groping a woman during a “healing session” in Santa Monica.
Borders didn’t step down as CEO because of embarrassment or proximity to someone accused. She stepped down because she is planning to vigorously defend her son, and this wouldn’t align well with the work of an organization that preaches zero tolerance for “discrimination, harassment or abuse.”
Or, in the words of Sir Thomas More:
She stepped down because of embarrassment and proximity to her own unreconciled cause, method, and means.
#NoWarlockTrials #HateLovesAbortion #EndAgeDiscrimination #NoDiversityColorJudgments #MonotonicallyDivergent #OneWickedSolutionTooMany et cetera
I just watched this movie a day or two ago, for the umpteenth time. That is one of my favorite scenes. Good choice for your post.
I am now wondering if the Democrats (and the MeTooers) have recreated the 1983 Labour Manifesto that was called “The Longest Suicide Note in History”
Jennifer Rubin worries:
Democrats also give Trump the upper hand when they are willing accept the role he’s designated for them: Socialists. We’ve already heard his Green New Deal attack. Socialists want to take away your car and outlaw cows (or the reverse)!
Likewise, if you promise to take away private health insurance, Trump would be delighted to run on “Democrats say you can’t keep your doctor.”
It would be a particularly egregious error for Democrats to identify with proposals that are non-starters (Abolish ICE! Reparations!). It’s an unforced error with no upside. If you have to go so far out on the left-wing to attract support, chances are you’re not making the case effectively to an electoral majority.
A worried NeverTrumper.
A Man for All Seasons is really good, but it’s important to remember that More cheerfully burned heretics.
John Tewkesbury was a London leather seller found guilty by Bishop of London John Stokesley of harbouring banned books; he was sentenced to burning for refusing to recant. More declared: he “burned as there was neuer wretche I wene better worthy.”
He was a good man, for a man of his time.
Why doesn’t Lisa Borders believe her son’s accuser? what a freaking hypocrite, you will never feel the pain of others unless you yourself get a taste what they are suffering. This is the problem the liberals don’t get, whatever political weapons you created to oust your political opponents will be used against you, by someone who has an eye on your position. They think they are safe, no you are not, socialism is just a violent musical chair that the seat you obtained through physical and unethical means will be taken away from you physically and unethically, you think you are invincible in the game of identity politics because you are a black gay transgender muslim, guess what, there will always be someone higher in the victimhood hierarchy that will take away your cake and kill you, they will not just leave you powerless by alive? The coup would be through, they will make sure you will never have a chance to come back and exact revenge on them.
How long before the hard left starts manufacturing guillotines?
Part of the end-game rebalancing after #MeToo is most likely going to be the very common sense idea:
No means No.
Whenever a woman says “No”, the man must stop sexual advances. Or else it is rape.
If a woman fails to say No, her actions are presumed to be consent.
The woman who was “forced” to have oral sex with Fairfax?
First she was kissing, then guided/pushed down, then she opened her mouth to receive the erection.
Why didn’t she go further down and say “No”?
She consented to kissing. She had oral sex. Now she says it was not consensual? But she didn’t say “No”.
Women have been empowered. Empowered to say yes, including with silence, and fully empowered to say no.
Rape happens. And it’s terrible. And it’s when the woman does say No, but the man doesn’t stop. Rapists need to be punished more.
Regret sex is not rape.
It should be noted that More’s punctilious trust on the letter of the law, did not save him, nor his church.
There is much to be said for principles … but one must make sure that you are dealing with the correct category of thing.
When a ravening appetite comes your way, crying out to it that you always played fair before, will avail you nothing at all.
Not much was going to stop Henry VIII. Multiple wives did not.
parker on February 28, 2019 at 5:57 pm at 5:57 pm said:
How long before the hard left starts manufacturing guillotines?
I would worry more about ovens now we have post birth abortions…
and i would guess the handicapped are in their sites too as back when the aktions were the orders of the day…
@Artfldgr indeed, and it’s starting. The Dutch green party (rebranded from Communist party after the fall of the Berlin wall, they literally just changed their name) put forward a proposal to deny medical care for the elderly (70 years and over) because “keeping them alive is not worth the money”.
Few years ago they put forward a proposal to deny all treatments that “don’t cure”, in other words everything that “merely” makes life more comfortable or suppresses symptoms. Under that proposal there’d be no more prescription painkillers, no more blood pressure pills, no more insulin, statins, anti-depressants, sleeping aids, crutches, prosthetics, glasses, contact lenses, you name it. I seriously doubt the people putting forward that proposal realised what they were proposing, but luckily enough members of parliament did that it was laughed out of the proceedings, that time.
Beyond the deep blue metropolitan areas, the ‘red’ middle dominates. Thus getting rid of, by any means, the Electoral College is a top priority. One ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. I am getting old day by day. I hope CW2 starts while I can function as a sniper. Seriously.
monty python-witch scene
Does he float? If he looks like a man, and he’s a conforming masculine gender, then he’s probably a duck, and therefore a rapist… rape-rapist (hat tip: Whoopi). Under the Twilight Amendment and with the Pro-Choice Church’s blessing, he is a priori guilty and should be privately burned at the stake.
They are the victims of the attitude that Munzenberg gave them… (and even you)
“He wanted to instill the feeling, like a truth of nature, that seriously to criticize or challenge leftist policy was the unfailing mark of a bad, bigoted, and probably stupid person, while support was equally infallible proof of a forward-looking mind committed to all that was best for humanity and marked by an uplifting refinement of sensi-bility.” – Stephen Koch – Double Lives
Mr. Koch says Munzenberg’s real service to the cause lay in recruiting the “elite youth” of the adversary culture as “agents who would over the long term seek to smooth and promote the advance of Soviet influence and assist the apparatus in its work of espionage.” Munzenberg as propagandist and spymaster thus wove a seamless web of deceit and intrigue, uniting ostensibly idealistic and open gestures of political conscience with the basest acts of hidden betrayal. Silently, tirelessly, cunningly, from the mid-20’s to the late 30’s he spun the threads linking “Ernest Hemingway to John Dos Passos to Lillian Hellman . . . to Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt.”
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“If we follow Munzenberg from Lenin’s side to the forest where he died,” Mr. Koch contends, “his path will serve as an Ariadne’s thread through much in 20th-century politics. The byways of his career link the most secret operations of revolutionary politics to central cultural events of the century.
We will see the Kremlin tied to Bloomsbury; we will watch the effects of his operation move from the Elysee to Hollywood and back to the Left Bank; from the life of Ernest Hemingway in Spain to Andre Gide speaking at the state funeral of Maxim Gorky. It is a thread that snakes through many mysteries, and across many encounters with betrayal, terror and murder.”
Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle. – Willi Münzenberg – in Arbeiter-Fotograf, 1931
JTW – when Obamacare was being debated Sarah Palin talked about “death panels”. Crazy lady! /
“The crocodile may eat you and your loved ones last, but the crocodile will eat you because it’s insatiably hungry:” – Neo
I read an article & its comments yesterday that makes much the same point.
This is the “trailer” from American Digest; the article is at Quillette.
http://americandigest.org/wp/true-but-forbidden-8/#more-11076
Why I’m Suing Twitter
This is the complaint against Twitter, and some information about the complainant:
https://quillette.com/2019/02/26/why-im-suing-twitter/
The bulk of the discussion in the comments was triggered by those bolded portions, and centered around Murphy’s own behavior, on her website and others, in deriding, deplatforming, and directing hate toward people she disagrees with (mostly, men aka “the patriarchy”), and the hypocrisy of now turning to them for help (her article ends with a funding appeal) after doing nothing to assist or object when conservatives and others not in her particular intersectional wedge were banned by Twitter (et al.).
The serious question posed was: should Murphy’s suit be supported, in the cause of helping defang Twitter in general; or should she be left to twist in the whirlwind sowed by her ilk, using the same tactics she deplores when used against herself?
It is a puzzlement.
Artfldgr on March 1, 2019 at 2:39 pm at 2:39 pm said:
They are the victims of the attitude that Munzenberg gave them… (and even you)
“He wanted to instill the feeling, like a truth of nature, that seriously to criticize or challenge leftist policy was the unfailing mark of a bad, bigoted, and probably stupid person, while support was equally infallible proof of a forward-looking mind committed to all that was best for humanity and marked by an uplifting refinement of sensi-bility.” – Stephen Koch – Double Lives
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Looks like he succeeded.
JTW on February 28, 2019 at 11:21 pm at 11:21 pm said:
@Artfldgr indeed, and it’s starting. The Dutch green party (rebranded from Communist party after the fall of the Berlin wall, they literally just changed their name) put forward a proposal to deny medical care for the elderly (70 years and over) because “keeping them alive is not worth the money”.
Few years ago they put forward a proposal to deny all treatments that “don’t cure”, in other words everything that “merely” makes life more comfortable or suppresses symptoms.
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JTW – what kind of insanity drives people who don’t think they will ever need pain suppressors, and will never grow old?
Will they have to face the same things they advocate for others, as Borders and Murphy did?
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Dave on February 28, 2019 at 5:36 pm at 5:36 pm said:
Why doesn’t Lisa Borders believe her son’s accuser? what a freaking hypocrite, you will never feel the pain of others unless you yourself get a taste what they are suffering. This is the problem the liberals don’t get, whatever political weapons you created to oust your political opponents will be used against you, by someone who has an eye on your position. They think they are safe, no you are not, socialism is just a violent musical chair that the seat you obtained through physical and unethical means will be taken away from you physically and unethically,
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The question is not: will they face the same problems they cause for others (some will; some won’t) — but, will those that face the problems learn anything from it?
The story of the Portland woman and her podcast questioning the MeToo stuff was also instructive. For daring to question they have come for her husbands coffee shop business.