I choose this source because it is a feminist source, like most of the media (even Fox News) it's relationship to feminism is that of a pastor to the church bulletin board.
The Rolling Stone was simply following feminist/anti-rape advocacy to the letter...
Believe the survivor (Survivor itself is a pre-judgement) unquestioningly.
Ignore the rights and wellbeing of the accussed (such as the harm done to those who are falsely accused).
Spout a ton of BS statistics and nonsensical BS about a rape epidemic.
Now they are unfairly being labeled as having set women back and somehow being uniquely foul when they were simply doing exactly what they were no doubt told to do.
Did the Rolling Stone's do anything feminists didn't in fact want them to do? Other then having stumbled upon a false accusation (supposedly so rare so as to not exist-yet keeps happening on a regular basis).
As humans, we have a tendency to cling to ideologies. Any positive set of beliefs can quickly turn malevolent once treated as ideology and not an honest intellectual or experiential pursuit of greater truth. Ideology does in entire economic systems and countries, causes religions to massacre thousands, turns human rights movements into authoritarian sects and makes fools out of humanity’s most brilliant minds. Einstein famously wasted the second half of his career trying to calculate a cosmological constant that didn’t exist because “God doesn’t play dice.”
I don't understand what you're unhappy about. If this author is calling on Rolling Stone to be more careful and thorough in investigating these sorts of allegations, isn't that also what you want? Isn't that what everyone should want?
http://mic.com/articles/105838/rolling-stone-may-have-set-the-fight-against-college-sexual-assault-back-decades?utm_source=Mic Check&utm_campaign=cf0e40ad8e-Mic_Report_12_5_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51f2320b33-cf0e40ad8e-285389813
The Rolling Stone was simply following feminist/anti-rape advocacy to the letter...
Believe the survivor (Survivor itself is a pre-judgement) unquestioningly.
Ignore the rights and wellbeing of the accussed (such as the harm done to those who are falsely accused).
Spout a ton of BS statistics and nonsensical BS about a rape epidemic.
Now they are unfairly being labeled as having set women back and somehow being uniquely foul when they were simply doing exactly what they were no doubt told to do.
Did the Rolling Stone's do anything feminists didn't in fact want them to do? Other then having stumbled upon a false accusation (supposedly so rare so as to not exist-yet keeps happening on a regular basis).
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