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In a special edition of Undercurrents, Christine Rosen joins Emily to revist the infamous rape hoax concoted against Duke lacrosse players by Crystal Mangum. After Mangum finally admitted the lie in December, Rosen explains how the case played out at the time, and how it led to the culture wars of today.
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SubscribeThank you for this. The evolution of lawfare in the past decades of mass communication is instructive. Should this be included in Civics or Psychology?
As a Gen-X among my peers, we’ve seen Affirmative Action and all its abuses. We were trained by cases in support of Equal Rights, but suffered the abuses of feminist activism nonetheless. And now our sons must resist the notion of ‘toxic masculinity’, but suffer from the abuses by Millenial women (especially in the military) who were trained by Me-Too. We know too well the consequence of the ‘process being the punishment’. But with such a healthy discussion as Ms. Rosen presents, there’s hope again that the pendulum has reached its apex and may be damped to equilibrium.
All these kinds of cases and examples establish firmly that IT IS DEMOCRATS who get carried away with what they can do and disregard willfully what they should do, and what principles underlie the offices and powers bestowed upon them by constitutions. That kind of misconduct is terribly dangerous.
The women opposing Kavanaugh never stopped to consider that other feminists might have given birth to sons–sons who they loved, who they didn’t want to see ruined by a false accusation of rape.