I wish our brave, adamant, progressive but mostly reasonable George Mason prof “jdkazoo” had not fled the commentariate. He maintained, against all evidence, that the mainstream media/corporate media/ Axis media was not biased, and, I think, believed this sincerely…because his skull had been hollowed out by living in the leftist echo chamber that is today’s academia. I would have loved to read his explanation for this. My guess is that he would have to default to what I always hear from Axis apologists: “Hey, it was just a mistake!”
The New York Times had seemingly decided to practice journalism by reviewing the text messages examined by Cornell in its Title XI investigation of “Jane Doe’s” (aka Lucy Craig) and reporting on them. It reported the key text, from Lucy/”Jane” to one of the rape-accuser’s original, consensual sex-partners, as concluding, “At the end of the day non of the sexual stuff was illegal and honestly i really liked being w u and matt.”
But that is not how that text ended. The whole message reviewed by Cornell, CBS NY and the Times was this:
Remember, ‘objective truth’ is a Western European concept rooted in Christianity and the Reformation. To appeal to it is White Supremacy. You must bow to ‘her truth’ and ‘her truth’ only includes the parts of the text messages that she believes in NOW. The way that she FEELS now is how the case needs to be decided because she is a vulnerable woman preyed upon by men. She needs to be supported because she is such a strong, independent woman who can make her own choices and men need to be held accountable for letter her engage in activities that she wanted to do at the time, but they should have known that she would regret later. Letting a woman do what she wants to do is manipulation and is illegal unless she files a lawsuit because it is not legal to prevent her from doing what she wants to do.
It is just that simple. Why do conservative, MAGA, white, Christian Nationalist, alt-right Nazis have such a hard time understanding that?