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05/19/2020 08:11

Subject: Re:Trump's 25 Sexual Assault Victims Thread

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a bonus for today: Susan Faludi's New York Times opinion piece, "Believe All Women is a Right-Wing Trap."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opinion/tara-reade-believe-all-women.html?searchResultPosition=2

The original For the next time a Con tries to argue that (1) the "all" was always a part of it, instead of "Believe women" or "Listen to all women," and (2) this somehow means we must discuss Kavanaugh instead of Trump's own victims.

In fact, “Believe All Women” does have an asterisk: *It’s never been feminist “boilerplate.” What we are witnessing is another instance of the right decrying what it imagines the American women’s movement to be.

Spend some mind-numbing hours tracking the origins of “Believe All Women” on social media sites and news databases — as I did — and you’ll discover how language, like a virus, can mutate overnight. All of a sudden, yesterday’s quotes suffer the insertion of some foreign DNA that makes them easy to weaponize. In this case, that foreign intrusion is a word: “all.”
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“It’s a very interesting rabbit hole,” Pablo Morales Henry, digital archivist at Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library, which maintains a collection of more than 30 million MeToo-related tweets, told me.
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Type in #BelieveAllWomen for 2017, when the #MeToo movement took off in October, and you get several dozen references, followed in 2018 (the year of the Kavanaugh hearings) by many more. But here’s the thing: I found that the hashtag is, by a wide margin, used mostly by its detractors.
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This is why “Believe All Women” is not an amplification of “Believe Women,” but its negation. As Mr. Morales Henry at the Schlesinger Library told me, after several days of analyzing the use of the two hashtags, “It looks like #BelieveAllWomen, especially recently, is being used in opposition to #BelieveWomen.” Its use spikes on occasions when allegations are made against a liberal politician — often with companion hashtags decrying a double standard.
The double-standard purity test operates in one direction only. Conservatives are unfazed by their own brazen hypocrisies; that’s not the game they’re playing. Kellyanne Conway claiming it’s “pro-woman” to “believe all women,” before walking back into that White House? Conservatives have been oddly immunized by their shamelessness.

I like to think of this thread as serving several purposes, including as a repository for useful stuff. This is good stuff!

+1!

The part I bolded is perhaps one of the stupidest but most insidious parts of all of right wing propaganda generation. It’s certainly nothing new, but it’s infuriating watching things get bent and distorted and having millions of angry idiots believing the lies fed to them by propaganda masters.