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And here we have the standard problem that is destroying our current system.  Both parties are getting polarized and extreme.  Ideologues deal in black and whites and do exactly what you are both doing, lambast and criticize someone who doesn't believe fully in what you argue.

You have the progressive ideologues who have always insisted that #BelieveAllWomen means that you believe their story, don't question their background, motives, actions.  They blindly believe any accusation; they believe that in order to protect all victims, you always believe the victim.  They don't care about the collateral damage of the innocent who were falsely accused.  They think that's the price that men have to pay to insure the protection of the victims.  If left to them, the Duke lacrosse team would have had their lives destroyed by Crystal Magnum.
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Except that "Believe All Women" was NEVER the progressive/liberal/democratic/feminist mantra. Conservatives have tried to twist slogans like "Believe Women" and "Listen to all women" to attempt to kill two birds--Biden and feminist values around rape victims--at the same time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opinion/tara-re...en.html?searchResultPosition=2

[quote]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. 
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