Quote: (10-07-2018 07:03 PM)Dr Mantis Toboggan Wrote:
Most of this will be US-specific so apologies in advance to forum members in other countries.
Over the last few weeks Americans, who for the most part don't closely follow this stuff, have seen a real-life example play out of the left attempting to assassinate a man's character using sexual assault allegations that ranged from uncorroborated to outright ludicrous (the Avenatti rape train accusation). Not only did they see the left do this to Kavanaugh as an indivudal, but a large percentage of the population can see the reasoning behind and the fact that the left attempted to use unfounded sexual assault allegations as a political weapon.
There have been other high-profile false rape claim cases (Duke lacrosse and Clarence Thomas come to mind), but Duke didn't have the wider political implications and neither came during a time of social media, with the MSM telling us that any woman claiming to have been raped or assaulted must be absolutely believed no matter what (unless the attacker is himself a leftist of course).
Decades from now, if we are able to defeat this cancer eating away at western civilization, will we look back on the last few weeks as the tipping point?
You are correct, #MeToo has suffered a mortal blow, and while it will probably not come to a dead halt, it will never recover from this. The same weekend as Kavanaugh got confirmed, Rose McGowan had this to say:
"On the subject of #MeToo, she said: 'I just think they're douchebags. They're not champions. I just think they're losers. I don't like them.
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McGowan has also hit out at Meryl Streep, saying that it is 'literally impossible' the actress knew nothing of Weinstein's sexual proclivities until last autumn. Streep has denied knowing about the producer's alleged behaviour.
Though she says 'women have a tight to be angry', McGowan says #MeToo activists have 'sold themselves a fiction' rather than face up to the true nature of Hollywood."
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6249875/Actress-Rose-McGowan-triggered-Harvey-Weinsteins-downfall-says-MeToo-bull.html
It may not be apparent right now, but the #MeToo monster is hemorrhaging blood, and will not be able to stand by mid-2019. The harpies accidentally let the mask slip at the Kavanaugh hearings, and revealed themselves to be monsters. The public is not going to forget that the same people demanding an end to due process and presumption of innocence were also screaming and bullying US senators in order to keep aborting babies. Now even crazy Rose McGowan has abandoned them.