Completely agree. Any time a “protected class” of alleged victims is created, they are handed a potent weapon that can be used in a multitude of ways. If they misuse their presumed victimhood to falsely accuse others, they should pay a very heavy price.
I have personally witnessed several workplace claims of racial discrimination over the years. In each case I knew the parties involved, on both sides, very well. In every single instance, the claim was 100% bogus and was leveled because the person making the accusation had gotten themselves into some kind of trouble and reflexively reached for the race card to deflect attention from their own behavior. Even more disappointing was the fact that in a couple of instances the plaintiffs were otherwise very respectable people who I (until then) held in high regard, yet even they couldn’t resist the temptation to use the advantage they had been granted by political correctness.
For this same reason, it is pure fantasy to believe that any group of people granted “protected class” status will ever concede that any “discrimination” against them, real or imagined, has improved one iota. No “victim” is ever going to let go of their victimhood, no matter what anyone else does to try to be responsive to their “concerns.” To do so would be to give up power, and in today’s upside-down leftist PC world, victimhood is the ultimate form of power.
Very well said. It sickens me that any woman would do this, as those women who are raped suffer immensely and false accusations only make it harder for them not to be treated as if “she deserved it”.