Read these fantastic comments on a conservative Facebook page & wanted to pass them along. Author is Sean D Sorrentino.
Apparently Orrin Hatch said the following in WSJ (behind a paywall):
“You’ve got to be kidding me. Do the people making this argument really expect a man who until five seconds ago had an unblemished reputation to sit passively while his reputation is viciously and permanently destroyed? While he is accused of the most horrific and obscene acts imaginable? Judge Kavanaugh’s critics seem to be aghast that he is a human being who is unwilling to take slander lying down.”
[WSJ article is titled Brett Kavanaugh’s Righteous Anger]
I’d like to expand on something in there.
“...accused of the most horrific and obscene acts imaginable”
I’m seeing apparently serious people saying “so what if a privileged white man doesn’t get a promotion, he’s still going to be a lifetime justice on the Court of Appeals for DC.”
Apparently in their world being accused of trying to rape someone is simultaneously
1) So awful that he deserves to be Borked out of a Supreme Court seat.
2) No big deal, so he should just get over it and get back to work on the DC Circuit.
[Say what?]
A few years ago I had to explain this to a nice liberal female friend of mine. Rape is a big [bleeping] deal in Conservative land. It is literally “the most horrific and obscene act imaginable.”
I’d rather you thought me a murderer than believed me a rapist. Ordinary people can imagine circumstances where they’d kill someone, and might have some sympathy for me if they thought I murdered someone. Maybe the guy kinda deserved it, and maybe the jury was a bunch of weenies about the whole thing.
There are literally zero circumstances where raping someone is a good idea. There’s no justification for it. Even attempting rape puts you outside the tribe. It makes you a non-person. It makes you fair game for anyone to kill on sight.
“Why’d you shoot that guy 27 times in the face and pelvis?”
“Because he raped my sister and that was all the ammo I brought.”
“Oh, ok.”
That’s how rapists are viewed in Conservative land.
So when the Left starts shooting their mouths off about “Rape Culture,” we get bent out of shape. When they conflate ordinary boorish behavior with rape, we lose our minds. Because branding a man a rapist is literally telling the rest of the world that he needs killing.
Yet they feel totally ok about deploying the “he’s a rapist!” charge with nothing in the way of evidence, and can’t understand why a decent man, who is married to a woman, who has daughters, who coaches a girls basketball team, might find it incredibly upsetting. They painted a target on his back. They told the world that there is no crime he wouldn’t stoop to. They invited the world to kill him. They encouraged him to kill himself.
That’s where this ends. With a 12 gauge mouthwash. Because when you’ve convinced a significant portion of the world that Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist or even an attempted rapist, he has nothing left to live for.
I’ve repeatedly compared this high tech lynching to the real thing. And the usual Leftist whiners have whined about comparing the “privileged white man losing a job opportunity” (near direct quote) to a mob stringing up a black man. I’ll tell you directly, if I have to choose, send me the mob. I have a rifle and I’ll take a few with me if I can. But I’d rather be strung up from a tree than have the nation think I was a rapist. Getting lynched at least means I get to die all at once.
Excellent comments, thanks!! Yes, I think the leftists tend to view conservative people so much through biased lenses that they cannot understand how appalling such behavior (or accusations) would be to any *real* conservative.