Posted on 05/19/2020 11:35:01 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault, and conservatives are having a field day, exultant that theyve caught feminists in a new hypocrisy trap. A woman, with no corroboration beyond contemporaneous accounts, charges a powerful man with a decades-old crime? Hmm, doesnt that sound mighty close to Christine Blasey Fords complaint against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh? Yet this time, many liberals whove championed the #MeToo movement seem skeptical?
Gotcha!
Tim Graham, executive editor of NewsBusters: Where is the #MeToo movement on this story? What happened to their rigid Believe All Women boilerplate?
Fox News host Tucker Carlson: the infuriating, the sickening hypocrisy of the media and the professional feminist movement. Believe All Women! No they dont.
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway: Three magic words, Believe All Women. I didnt hear an asterisk; I didnt see a footnote, Believe All Women so long as they are attacking somebody aligned with President Trump, Believe All Women so long as they are have a college degree or better or are are for abortion in the ninth month.
In fact, Believe All Women does have an asterisk: *Its never been feminist boilerplate. What we are witnessing is another instance of the right decrying what it imagines the American womens movement to be.
Spend some mind-numbing hours tracking the origins of Believe All Women on social media sites and news databases as I did and youll discover how language, like a virus, can mutate overnight. All of a sudden, yesterdays quotes suffer the insertion of some foreign DNA that makes them easy to weaponize. In this case, that foreign intrusion is a word: all.
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Pointing out hypocrisy is a trap?
Its a Carp.
Tara had a time and place for her incident. Ford could not 'remember'. She could not remember because Kavenaugh had detailed diaries and her fictional account would be revealed if she had. No wonder the bad guys wanted to see the diaries first!
There are some advantages in fighting evil morons.
Part of Israels success, for example.
True, no matter how saintly a man is, there is surely at least one women out there in the world who would lie about him just to cause him misfortune.
Faludi, hypocrites of all hypocrites. What a FPOS.
I met someone named Faludi once. Fought for the Nazis.
Susan Faludi grew up in the same town as AOC - Yorktown Heights.
Believe all Victims (or survivors) — but, first, determine if they actually are victims or survivors of something. I guess the qualifiers spoil a ‘good’ slogan.
Its so amusing watching these freaks twist themselves into pretzels to make sense of the inconsistencies of their bizarro world view.
Admiral Ackbar is more attractive.
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Alinsky for conservatives.
There is also a second line:
"women are allowed to change their mind whenever"
Republicans pounce!
You've got to be careful when you let Frankenstein out of his chains.
“Believe all woman”: I guess Stacey Abrams is Governor of Georgia and Hillary Clinton is President.
I don’t believe everyone because people lie. Proof is needed.
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