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#RapeCulture Liberal Logic™

Posted on | June 8, 2014 | 45 Comments

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit today published a commentary on a story that seemed familiar, so I double-checked. Amanda Kijera’s account of being raped in Haiti was originally published at the progressive blog Alternet in April 2010, but has apparently been deleted since then. However, its authenticity can be verified from other contemporaneous sources, e.g., Democrat Underground:

Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity of Black men in a world which constantly stereotypes them as violent savages, I viewed this writing as yet one more opportunity to fight “the man” on behalf of my brothers. That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for.
It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could bear. I begged him to stop. Afraid he would kill me, I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face. Overpowered, I gave up fighting halfway through the night.

A “brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression”? How much time do you have to spend inside the progressive bubble before you start thinking this kind of rhetoric will make a difference to a man who is raping you? However, in the liberal mind, whenever facts contradict your theory, you must defend the theory by ignoring or “deconstructing” the facts, so Kijera continued:

Women are not the source of their oppression; oppressive policies and the as-yet unaddressed white patriarchy which still dominates the global stage are. Because women–and particularly women of color–are forced to bear the brunt of the Black male response to the Black male plight, the international community and those nations who have benefitted from the oppression of colonized peoples have a responsibility to provide women with the protection that they need.

So, having been raped by a black man, the white feminist instead is ultimately a secondhand victim of the “white patriarchy.”

“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool.” — George Orwell, 1945

 

Category: Feminism, Haiti, Sex

Comments

45 Responses to “#RapeCulture Liberal Logic™”

  1. commonpatriot
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:39 pm

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  2. CHideout
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:39 pm

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    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:39 pm

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    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:39 pm

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  5. Citzcom
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:39 pm

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  6. Lockestep1776
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:39 pm

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  7. instapundit
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:41 pm

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  8. iheartayn
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:44 pm

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  9. gntlman
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:45 pm

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  10. Phooferama
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:46 pm

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  11. rsmccain
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:47 pm

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  12. instapundit
    June 8th, 2014 @ 7:49 pm

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  13. BobBelvedere
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:03 pm

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  14. Bob Belvedere
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:05 pm

    I remember this – didn’t you cover it before, Stacy?

  15. CFLancop
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:06 pm

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  16. OwainPenllyn
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:09 pm

    #RapeCulture Liberal Logic-Wt feminist raped by blk man is 2nd hand victim of wt patriarchy http://t.co/xjfupe2v2H #tcot

  17. Josh_Painter
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:11 pm

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  18. CFLancop
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm

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  19. AmPowerBlog
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:30 pm

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  20. 1FreedomFanatic
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:32 pm

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  21. Nan
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:42 pm

    Let me get this straight; the guy raping her wasn’t raping her it was the white privilege heteronormative patriarchy that did so?

  22. RDG
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:44 pm

    I don’t remember this. It happens 100 times a day in the US. What’s the big deal? Black men rape white women all the time. It’s a dog bites man story.

  23. ChandlersGhost
    June 8th, 2014 @ 8:44 pm

    Is it white privilege when Haitian men rape Haitian women?

  24. Durasim
    June 8th, 2014 @ 9:33 pm

    We’ve seen this before, and we’ll see it again, unfortunately. When members of a pitiable, oppressed group commit a crime, then we are supposed to blame their social conditions and some evil, white, patriarchal power structure or something. The theory being that the evil white capitalist patriarchal power structure is therefore responsible for all crimes and bad things committed by members of the oppressed underclass.

    Remember when that American student Amy Biehl was murdered in South Africa? She was there as an “advocate” of the oppressed, helping to prepare the black townships for the first elections after apartheid. Then a mob which was chanting post-colonial catchphrases attacked her and stabbed her to death, because she was a “settler.”

    And after all that, the persons who murdered her received amnesty. Amy Biehl’s parents actually cheered her murderers, hugging and embracing them at the amnesty ceremony, saying that they were “beautiful” men, and how they really weren’t to blame and that apartheid made these men kill their daughter. The parents actually gave these men some gravy train jobs at a foundation established in their daughter’s name.

    However, one of the “beautiful” pardoned men subsequently turned out to be a rapist.

    http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/biehl-killer-guilty-of-raping-disabled-woman-1.116257#.U5ULY_ldW50

  25. schwingcat
    June 8th, 2014 @ 9:37 pm

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  26. RS
    June 8th, 2014 @ 10:16 pm

    I read these stories and cannot help being reminded of stories like this. It’s all predicated upon a child-like denial of reality, where dangerous things and people are turned into anthropomorphic fluffy bunnies. Now, thanks to the internet, we all get to watch Natural Selection play out.

  27. Wombat_socho
    June 8th, 2014 @ 10:25 pm

    It’s ALWAYS white privilege. /sarc

  28. thatMrGguy
    June 8th, 2014 @ 10:59 pm

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  29. ChandlersGhost
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:12 pm

    Dude, why are you chewing my leg? Don’t you know you’re like, a peaceful creature?

  30. RS
    June 9th, 2014 @ 12:18 am

    Almost missed this at Hoft’s:

    Kijera makes the outrageous claim that dependency on white people causes them to act out against them. She alludes that this was the reason for her attack. (Quoted from US Patriot)

    Kijera has an epiphany. If you subsidize dependency you don’t get gratitude. Someone send her a membership card to the TEA Party.

  31. Adjoran
    June 9th, 2014 @ 12:47 am

    Ain’t it always?

  32. Adjoran
    June 9th, 2014 @ 12:48 am

    Except when it’s “half-white” privilege, according to Salon.

    Seems even they are about to throw Obama under the bus!

  33. Adjoran
    June 9th, 2014 @ 12:49 am

    That was back before we knew about “bear privilege.”

  34. Guitartom47
    June 9th, 2014 @ 1:14 am

    No matter what, you can’t make libs think. They are mentally ill and here’s the proof. http://t.co/1WzM5MmZNi

  35. The Daley Gator | Gee, everything really IS my fault
    June 9th, 2014 @ 1:44 am

    […] I guess I just have to own up to being responsible for EVERYTHING bad that has ever happened. I mean if it happened and it was bad, it must be on me, because I am a White male! The Other McCain gave all of us White guys the bad news earlier […]

  36. dave_mears
    June 9th, 2014 @ 2:53 am

    RT @rsmccain: #RapeCulture Liberal Logic™ http://t.co/FRtZoaI5Oy cc @schwingcat @gatewaypundit #tcot

  37. Joe Dokes
    June 9th, 2014 @ 7:24 am

    That’s what made it merely “almost more” than she could bear. Had it been a white man violently raping her, it would have been truly unbearable, but his being black was evidently a mitigating factor in his favor.

  38. Joe Dokes
    June 9th, 2014 @ 7:27 am

    The Left doesn’t care about what happens to brown people one inch beyond whatever ideological mileage that can be wrung from them. It’s easy to view humanity that way when you accept the premise nobody really exists as an individual.

  39. Bozikek
    June 9th, 2014 @ 12:48 pm

    “He didn’t care that I was a Yogi Bear scholar”

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  41. K-Bob
    June 9th, 2014 @ 3:50 pm

    Then there’s the famous joke the UN keeps playing on these poor, disposessed people, where they send in peacekeepers to help address the unfairness brought about by the white patriarchy.

    Naturally, “peacekeeping” involves raping young girls.

  42. cmdr358
    June 9th, 2014 @ 5:49 pm

    Call me cynical, but I cannot feel sorry for fools who intentionally put themselves in harms way while trying to do something that will make themselves feel good.

    It’s one thing to rush into a dangerous situation in order to aid someone in grave danger. Adrenaline and sense of duty kick in and you just go and try to be of assistance.
    It is utter foolishness entirely for a woman to venture into Haiti alone to ” aid in the struggle blah, blah, blah.” Likewise for Americans to go “hiking” in Afghanistan or for a U.S. soldier to walk out and attempt to commiserate with the Taliban.
    When bad things happen because you do foolish things what can you expect?

  43. cmdr358
    June 9th, 2014 @ 5:55 pm

    Well if the evil white European colonialists had never gone to the African continent those poor people would be enjoying the sedate pastoral life of their ancestors so yes it is our fault.

    I humbly denounce myself and my Irish, English and German ancestors!

    I feel better now! Anybody else?

  44. RichFader
    June 9th, 2014 @ 6:20 pm

    Why do rapists rape? Not to discount any political or social angles to the act, but there are other ways to act those out. Just maybe, rapists rape because, like the cowboy in “Blazing Saddles”, they like rape.

    Call it “Brooks’ Bris Knife”.

  45. cmdr358
    June 9th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm

    “Piecekeeping” as it were?