He’s not dead yet.
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And women whom I would have considered old ladies 30 years ago are now young chicks.
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That whole chapter of Proverbs is loaded with statements that are relevant to our present condition.
Verse 5: It is not good to be partial to the wicked
and so deprive the innocent of justice.
V 17: In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right,
until someone comes forward and cross-examines.
V 23: The poor plead for mercy,
but the rich answer harshly.
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you know, at some point we could also be OK with the fact that there should be political motivations behind disclosures—making a world where women’s suffering isn’t ignored is absolutely political. fuck those who think that it isn’t.
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Well, the republicans (for instance mike pence) are pushing like hell to instate the christian version of sharia law after all. They would rather wipe their asses with the constitution than not serve the interests of their religion while working for the public.
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It’s not even this as much as it’s “hey, he may be a child molester, but at least he’s not one of those filthy libruls!”. (Who I understand are the actual incarnation of evil on the face of the Earth).
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I wish this wasn’t true, but it is. I know an Evangelical guy who thinks that if someone disagrees with his obviously god given thoughts or arguments that they’re literally listening to an invisible demon on their shoulder. I’d say you can’t make this shit up, but you so obviously can…
It’s batshit insane, but there are tons of people like him out there, and they vote…
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It’s also paradoxical that career politicians are somehow able to dismiss an issue by ascribing political motivations.
“Politically motivated actions have no place in politics!” /s
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It’s “anyone I could have given birth to” for me. Which at this point is anyone under 25.
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Good point. I also don’t remember many (any?) Democrats defending him once the allegations kept on coming.
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"As a teenager, I attended a lecture on courtship by a home-school speaker who was popular at the time. He praised the idea of “early courtship” so the girl could be molded into the best possible helpmeet for her future husband. The girl’s father was expected to direct her education after the courtship began so she could help her future husband in his work.
In retrospect, I understand what the speaker was really describing: Adult men selecting and grooming girls who were too young to have life experience. Another word for that is “predation.”
Much of the sexual abuse that takes place in Independent Fundamentalist Baptist, or IFB, churches involves adult men targeting 14- to 16-year-old girls. If caught, the teenage victim may be forced to repent the “sin” of having seduced an adult man. Former IFB megachurch pastor Jack Schaap argued that he should be released from prison after being convicted of molesting a 16-year-old girl, asserting that the “aggressiveness” of his victim “inhibited [his] impulse control.” In the wake of the Schaap case, numerous other stories emerged of sexual abuse cover-ups involving teenage girls at IFB churches. In another high-profile case, pregnant 15-year-old Tina Anderson, who was raped by a church deacon twice her age, was forced to confess her “sin” to the congregation."
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I would like, but… Those people are fucking messed up.
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Right—and it’s directly going for the throat of the “neutrality” idea that the Democrat centrists love: “third way” and compromise, etc. Because in effect, it guts charged, emotional decisions and decisions of life and death which are absolutely the most necessary kind of politics to discuss and do—into weird a “apolitical” space. Like, it should be fucking political whether Puerto Rico gets sufficient federal support and disaster relief or not—because racism, climate change, colonialism are absolutely political. Whether a sexual harassment/assault victim gets heard seriously or not in both the courts and the court of public discourse is absolutely political.
Put in another way: “political” should mean your core values about what you think society should be like, but it often gets used to mean “US electoral party politics” (the domain of campaigns and elections and other shenanigans). The more we allow people to conflate our politics with the latter, the less society means to us.
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