Yes, my question might be
slightly inflammatory, but if the shoe fits . . . .
The short answer is an
undue, even demanding, bias that accusations of rape be believed without
question. Of course, this demand
primarily applies when used as a weapon against hated adversaries -
heterosexual men in the case of Feminazis and black men in the case of the KKK.
Automatic belief of rape accusations was a central
principle of the KKK’s war on rape, too. This was one of the things that most
shocked Ida B Wells, the early twentieth-century African-American journalist
and civil-rights activist. ‘The word of the accuser is held to be true’, she
said, which means that ‘the rule of law [is] reversed, and instead of
proving the accused to be guilty, the [accused] must prove himself innocent’.
Wells and others were startled by the level of belief in the accusers of black
men, and by the damning of anyone who dared to question such accusations, which
was taken as an attack on the accuser’s ‘virtue’.
And there are additional
parallels, both instructive and disturbing, between the KKK and “rape culture”
activists. So do go read . . . if you
can handle it.
Hat tip to Instapundit.
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NOTE: One reason I use the
term “Feminazis” here is that not all feminists buy into “rape culture” witch
hunting. So I did not want to use
the latter term. I do respect
those feminists thoughtful enough to defend rightful protections of the
accused.
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