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Your Daily Julian Assange Update: The Left’s ‘Mind-Bending Contradictions’

Posted on | December 21, 2010 | 11 Comments

Instapundit linked the Hot Air headline — “Anti-Americans vs. feminists: The Leftist meltdown over Assange” — which more concisely captures the contradictions than does the Daily Mail the headline, “Fancy that! The Left is at war with itself over Mr WikiLeaks.”

The backstory: A few days ago, the Guardian – Britain’s leading newspaper of the Left — shocked its readers, who had become accustomed to the paper’s heroification of WikiLeaks found Julian Assange, by publishing a lengthy report on the rape accusations against Assange in Sweden. Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips attempts to explain this under-the-bus treatment:

[T]he whole world-view of the Left rests upon its iron-clad conviction that America is a global conspiracy of evil from which all bad things ultimately emanate.
So the Left knew for a certainty that the rape charges were false and that Assange was a martyr. . . .
To understand why there is such an ear-splitting screeching of brakes from The Guardian, it is necessary to consider the mind-bending contradictions of what passes for thinking on the Left.
For it believes certain things as articles of faith which cannot be denied. One is that America is a force for bad in the world and so can never be anything other than guilty. Another is that all men are potential rapists, and so can never be anything other than guilty. . . .

So, when confronted with this head-exploding cognitive dissonance, what does an American-hating feminist need most? A scapegoat:

Got raped? It’s your own fault, you filthy whore.

This is the headline on a blog post by Anna Tarkov, who adds: “I’d like to hear some explanations now on why anyone should ever read another word this disgusting misogynist ever pens. I know I won’t.”

The “disgusting misogynist”? That would be me.

It’s important to note that, just five days earlier, Tarkov was posting video of Assange defending WikiLeaks, a post she headlined: “The method is transparency. The goal is justice.”

So she’s not angry at Assange, the accused rapist. No, she is angry at me, for having said that women who hook up with assholes are victims of their own stupidity. And therefore no word I write should ever be read by anyone ever again, because apparently nothing is more important to Anna Tarkov than her freedom to hook up with assholes.

Melanie Phillips helpfully makes a key point about the nature of the charges against Assange:

The fact remains, however, that we don’t know the truth of these accusations against Assange. To make a judgment about what happens between the sheets after consensual sexual activity has started is extremely difficult, since all there is to go on is the word of the accuser and of the accused. . . .

It’s a he-said/she-said situation, and how did Assange’s victims get themselves into that predicament? By hooking up with an asshole.

If you hook up with an asshole and expect him to behave like a gentleman . . . I give up. In what alternative universe am I a ”misogynist” for pointing out the erroneous judgment involved in that decision? As I said in response to Amanda Marcotte, “this is like saying I’m in favor of third-degree burns if I warn children not to play with fire.”

So the feminists are jumping up and down shouting names at me — the convenient right-wing scapegoat — which is infinitely easier for them than confronting the possibility that their worldview is flawed.


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  • Anonymous

    You see, Stacy, you violated the sacred meme of not “blaming the victim”. No one is ever at fault when they are a “victim”, you idiot. /snark

  • BLBeamer

    I know this mind set.

    A few years ago our neighbor’s dog got out of their yard (because they’d left their gate open), and attacked our dog while my son was walking her.

    A fight ensued. Unfortunately, one dog was killed in the fight. Not mine.

    Since our neighbors weren’t home at the time, I called the authorities and took my own dog to the vet for her injuries. This was interpreted by one witness as “leaving the scene and covering up evidence.”

    When our neighbors finally got home, he came over to my house and claimed that our dog was trained (by us) as a killer. His proof? My 16 year old son refused to physically interpose himself between the two fighting dogs. I praised my son and said we had raised him to avoid getting in the middle of dog fights. This was proof to our neighbor that we intended to have our dog be a killer.

    After my head stopped spinning, I asked my neighbor if he taught his kids to look both ways before crossing the street. He said, “Yes.” I asked him why, if they had never been hit by a car.

    He called me a dirty mother ******, full of s***, crazy-a** murderer. He would have taken a swing at me, I think, if his wife hadn’t come out and pulled him away.

    Why are such demented people allowed to have computers?

  • http://twitter.com/dustbury Charles G Hill

    “…nothing is more important … than her freedom to hook up with assholes.”

    Except, possibly, the ability to get Uncle Sugar to pay the bill for, um, “correction,” should a hookup result in a knockup.

  • DaveO

    What is more interesting is the rising level of anger among the professional Left: the anti-woman actions of the Democrats at odds with the drive to make women a protected class. How long before these women’s heads explode at the cognitive disconnect? Or, for some cash or promise of power delivered later will they do as they did during the Clinton scandals and profess their love of rape, rapists, and all things Bubba-esque?

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  • Prmendenhall

    I had a similar situation but I was walking 2 of my dogs (on leash) and I ended up front kicking the dog that attacked and cracked a rib. The stupid owner tried to sue me and lost.

  • Anonymous

    That’s only true if you’re a member of an Official Victim Group.

    Always remember: No physical evidence = NOT GUILTY.

  • plain dealer

    that kind of victim feminism isn’t left wing. they hate the left. it’s reactionary to the core. they think women are mental children and permanent victims. wolf is a leftist and a feminist — so the ‘radical feminists’ are forming a mob to go after her. amazing.

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  • Towerclimber37

    wow.
    To say that women who think this way are self hating, is a bit of a mis statement.
    I think that they are just upset that they weren’t born as men. They’ve been victimized by genetics so they feel that they can, in turn, victimize anyone else. Women, Men..doesn’t matter.
    They hate themselves as a byproduct, so it’s no wonder that you see this kind of drivel from them.

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