My good friend Robert Stacy McCain wrote:
No national controversy is complete until Amanda Marcotte has made a fool of herself about it, and the feminist writer has gotten a good head start on the so-called “Cornell 7” case. The sordid tale of an Ivy League orgy that devolved into accusations of sexual assault prompted Marcotte to indict “Trumpism” as somehow explaining skeptical reactions to the story.
That is an absolutely true statement, and Mr McCain was hardly the only person to make fun of Miss Marcotte’s Salon post blaming the (alleged) rape of Lucy Craig — her identity has been widely disseminated, so I will not use the “Jane Doe” identity concealing pseudonym — on evil, reich-wing conservatives. There are plenty of rape accusations which have been real rapes, but for some strange reason, the author picks the ones which are highly questionable to try to make her case. Remember: she tried to make a case against the falsely accused members of the Duke lacrosse team two decades ago, only to have to eat her words — not really — as the truth came out. Continue reading







