QotD: "I believe the #MeToo movement was a healthy grassroots attempt to highlight and eradicate a serious injustice. But the movement is increasingly being taken over by collectivism -- the innocence or guilt of any individual judged not by objective facts but by his group affiliation"
"I believe the #MeToo movement was a healthy grassroots attempt to highlight and eradicate a serious injustice. But the movement is increasingly being taken over by collectivism, which means that the individual is subordinate to the moral supremacy of the group. Under collectivism, the innocence or guilt of any individual is to be judged not by objective facts but by his group affiliation.
"#MeToo is collectivising into a war on men--all men. Petula Dvorak of the 'Washington Post' calls for a '#MeToo March on Washington' this week in one-sided support for Ford ahead of any testimony and prior to the surfacing of relevant facts or proof. Jenna Wortham of the 'New York Times' wants “every single man put on notice, to know that they, too, were vulnerable because women were talking.”
"This is pure hatred... This is collectivism. If 'every single man' should fear any woman 'talking,' then any man can legitimately be accused of sexual harassment, whether he as an individual is guilty or not. Why not? He’s a man. He’s guilty no matter the actual facts of any individual case, because men as a group are guilty... "Just as the Civil Rights Movement started out as a legitimate demand by an oppressed group that America live up to its creed of equal individual rights, but was hijacked by statists who turned it into a collectivist movement for totalitarian socialism, so it looks like the #MeToo movement is being hijacked by a predatory, collectivist, revenge-seeking gang that is on the hunt for innocent victims to condemn without evidence, without a hearing, and without the benefit of Innocent Until Proven Guilty."
~ Mike LaFerrara, from his post 'The Hijacking of the #Me-Too Movement'
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This is correct except for the first sentence. I don't believe the #MeToo movement was ever about eradicating a serious injustice. It was, and subsequently has proven itself to be about a naked grab for power. Just as the race collectivists use allegations of historical injustices (either real or imagined) to try and gain power today, so to have the gender collectivists with these historical allegations - many of which I suspect are nothing more than "buyers regret".
I agree, with one caveat: it's pretty obvious that there was an injustice. This gives the Collectivists a screen to hide behind. At this point, tactically the only thing we can do is to attempt to provide a better way to correct the injustice. Whether we believe that the movement started with innocent intent or not isn't really relevant; at this point, the Collectivists have the moral high ground and will respond with any attack against the #MeToo movement with variations of "So you're fine with women being sexually abused."
By attempting to "provide a better way to correct the injustice" I think you're buying into their collectivist framing of the issue. We are not dealing with rape or attempted rape that is reported soon after the event, but allegations that are generally both vague and alleged to have occurred a long time ago. That alone requires a strong presumption of doubt. Boorish behavior, or social exchanges we might regard as sordid but voluntarily entered into (combined with shame and 'buyers regret' 20 years later) is not necessarily an injustice.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. What I mean is, there is obviously a lot of behaviors that objectively qualify as sexual assault that go unreported for years, for many reasons. We need to figure out how to handle them. The fact that people aren't comfortable going to the authorities for these crimes indicates that there's a serious problem with enforcing the law--imagine of 6 or 7 out of every 10 break-ins or muggings went unreported because the victim felt that the police would do nothing!
The issue is, the Left has taken that and used it as a smoke-screen to hide obvious political gambits. If you show any support for the Republican position (whether you support an individual candidate or not) you're now blasted as a rape apologist. The Left has claimed the moral high ground--and the Right has allowed them to do so.
Fully agree on your last sentence, by the way. And I would add that laws CANNOT be applied retroactively. Behaviors that were legal at the time cannot be made into crimes. Otherwise we have no way of knowing what is legal and what isn't. Which, of course, is what collectivists want.
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