Friday, October 19, 2018

"Everyone should embrace both due process and the presumption of innocence because everyone might need these themselves one day"

In Commentary, Christine Rosen writes,
...something unexpected happened on the way to his character assassination: Kavanaugh defended himself and was defended by others, including many women. Where feminists wanted women to see themselves in the seat Christine Blasey Ford occupied, many instead saw their sons or husbands or brothers sitting in the chair where Kavanaugh sat.

...What radical feminist theorists have long been arguing—that there is no such thing as true consent because of patriarchy and that all women are potential victims of men—has reached full flower.

...The answer isn’t reeducation in radical feminist notions of men’s innately violent natures. It’s raising boys and girls to treat one another with respect and to uphold gender-free values such as the presumption of innocence and due process and equal opportunity. Civil society relies on due process not only because it’s an objective good (though it is). Everyone should embrace both due process and the presumption of innocence because everyone might need these themselves one day, regardless of his or her gender.
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