Posted on 12/12/2014 4:22:56 AM PST by Kaslin
Mayella Ewell accused Tom Robinson of raping her. She, a white woman with an aggressive family, made for a compelling victim against a black man in a segregated South. The state tried Robinson, white men tried to lynch him, and it became quite clear at the trial that there was no way Robinson could have raped Mayella Ewell.
Notwithstanding the evidence, an all-white jury still found Robinson guilty. Robinson was eventually killed trying to escape jail. He was innocent of the crime. Zerlina Maxwell, an opinion writer in the Washington Post, would have stood with Mayella Ewell in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
After Rolling Stone magazine retracted its story of rape at the University of Virginia, Zerlina Maxwell penned a column for the Post titled "No matter what Jackie said, we should automatically believe rape claims." Only after public outrage did Maxwell and the Post walk back her piece to "we should generally believe" rape claims.
Maxwell was not alone. As the Rolling Stone story percolated in the press with a sensational tale of gang rape in a fraternity house at the University of Virginia, many members of the press not only responded breathlessly to the allegations but attacked anyone who suggested the story sounded too good to be true.
A young woman named Jackie claimed she had gone to a fraternity party with a young man. That young man led her upstairs to a room where a half dozen young men gang raped Jackie. She went to three friends and two of her friends dissuaded her from going to the authorities lest their chances of getting into a fraternity be ruined.
The fraternity in question came under attack -- both verbally and with physical damage to its property by an outraged mob. Faculty members protested. The University of Virginia president demanded a police investigation. When others called the too-good-to-be-true facts into question, the reporter who wrote the story, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, and others attacked those who raised questions. The doubters were accused of supporting rapists, denying the holocaust, and being "rape truthers."
Turns out the story was a fabrication. Rolling Stone first tried to blame the victim. But students at the University of Virginia began coming forward. They said Rolling Stone never reached out to them. Sabrina Rubin Erdely had to admit she never contacted the alleged rapists for their comment. Jackie's friends say they were not contacted either.
Rolling Stone finally had to retract the story.
What is going unsaid, however, is how quickly the press was willing to believe all these things about young white men who were portrayed as conservative, privileged and in fraternities. The media, with the help of people like Sabrina Rubin Erdely, have bought into the idea of a phony "rape culture" complete with mostly fabricated statistics that 1 in 5 women on college campuses are victims of sexual assault. That is simply not true.
But the media believes that statistic, and it shapes the media's reporting. They want it to be true because it confirms their biases against young white men, College Republicans, fraternities, etc. A media that denounces racial profiling and stereotyping routinely stereotypes others.
The secular left, of which the media serves as priest and prophet, has developed their own religion with their own canon, sacraments and mythos. The cause is more important than truth and fact. "The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it's the seriousness of the charge that matters," has become one of their commandments.
These stories are going to keep happening because the left's mythology outweighs facts and evidence. The Rolling Stone article and its progeny are the left's version of Aesop's fables -- stories to relate their morals. It does not matter that the rape at the University of Virginia was not real. Because "rape culture" is supposedly real and fraternity boys are silver-spooned Satans, the story has power. The left must continue building the canon of their religion, of which Rolling Stone's bunk article plays a necessary role.
Most of the media uncritically believed Sabrina Rubin Erdely because she fed their bigotry and the mythology that guides their life's work. It will happen again.
Is being stoned for a false rape claim going to far?
And I thought we just heard the other day that it’s women who are hated.
Nope. Under the Law of Moses, a person who falsely accused another was subject to whatever the person he accused would have suffered if convicted.
Take all reported rape accusations in the country each year.
I’ve been unable to find definitive numbers, but probably somewhere in the vicinity of 10% of those result in convictions.
Roughly another 10% are proven to be false, usually because the accused was in Europe at the time or something. Very, very few of these result in charges filed, much less conviction, of the accuser. But to classify the charge as unfounded, something close to “beyond a reasonable doubt” is required as evidence.
IOW, somewhere in the neighborhood of 80% of the time, when a rape report is made, the legal system is unable to determine guilt or innocence, beyond a reasonable doubt, of either party.
I suspect this percentage is even higher in the case of “date rape,” where both parties agree intercourse took place, differing only on whether it was consensual. Few people will claim a rape didn’t occur when it was by a stranger.
What the Fermi-media is doing affects all men, even if they do it to whites with a smile on their faces.
The O.T. says that a false accuser should suffer the same fate as the person accused would have been subjected to.
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Good point. The MSM today are no better than the crudest example of racism they themselves can imagine.
Autocorrect fail.
Femi-media
“I suspect this percentage is even higher in the case of “date rape,” where both parties agree intercourse took place, differing only on whether it was consensual. Few people will claim a rape didn’t occur when it was by a stranger.”
A lot of things go on that few people would believe, I learned long ago that people believe mostly what they wish to believe while, at the same time, believing that they are astute and critical thinkers who have sorted things out and uncovered the real truth. People are apt to approach reality like an inebriated guest at a party serving tray. A little of this, don’t want that, a little of the other over there, pick up something, decide against it and throw it in the trash, etc.
I think more investigation should be placed on the “advocates” at UVA as well as the victim. Erdely of Rolling Stone was introduced to the fake victim since she had been re-telling her story at rallies for months. The advocates pushed this “victim” because her story was so sensational. The crazy thing is that none of these advocates thought of contacting the police when her horrific story was told at the rallies. Not even the Rolling Stone reporter. What are these “advocates” advocating? To top it all off the whole rape story appears to have been dreamt up to gain sympathy from a fellow student who the “victim” had a crush on. With fake text, pictures to boot.
Conservatives need to become the leaders of the storytelling industries - religion, government, education, and the media.
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