{"id":45781,"date":"2020-08-13T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/kamala-harris-believed-joe-bidens-accusers-until-she-didnt\/"},"modified":"2020-08-13T02:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T23:26:00","slug":"kamala-harris-believed-joe-bidens-accusers-until-she-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kamala-harris-believed-joe-bidens-accusers-until-she-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"#Kamala Harris believed Joe Biden\u2019s accusers \u2014 until she didn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Kamala Harris believed Joe Biden\u2019s accusers \u2014 until she didn\u2019t<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n By the standard of her own ample public record, \u00adKamala Harris has just joined the presidential campaign of a serial sexual abuser, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

It was during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings that we first learned that Harris harbors serious presidential aspirations. Her cross-examination of the future justice went viral, prompting Politico to speculate: \u201cKamala Harris Rides Kavanaugh Rage in Likely 2020 Bid.\u201d<\/p>\n

She later explained her \u00adhard-line position in an Atlantic magazine interview. Sexual \u00adassault, she said, \u201cis an issue right now that is where the issue of domestic violence was about 30 years ago. \u2026 There was a perception about domestic violence: \u2018Oh, you know, what happ<\/a>ens in the king\u2019s castle is the king\u2019s business. That\u2019s private business. That\u2019s not our business.\u2019 But then we evolved as a society. \u2026 I believe this is an inflection moment on the issue of sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n

The explicitly stated assumption behind all this was that the allegations against Kavanaugh, spurious, unproved and uncorroborated though they were, had to be believed \u2014 because women had made them.<\/p>\n

Harris beefed up her #MeToo credentials later, making it clear she doesn\u2019t just believe women accusing Republicans of sexual assault. All women had to be believed, including those who \u00adaccused prominent Democrats. At a campaign event in Nevada in April 2019, Harris discussed the allegations against Biden, declaring of the accusers: \u201cI believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Biden is an abuser \u2014 \u00adbecause women have accused him, and all women should be believed. Right?<\/p>\n

So what has changed since then? Sexual assault and harassment are some of the most serious \u00adallegations that can be leveled against a man. Harris now needs to account for why she is comfortable joining an abuser\u2019s 2020 ticket. This isn\u2019t some \u00addebate-stage policy disagreement she can just walk back, claiming she has \u201cevolved.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are only two possibilities. One is that Harris didn\u2019t, in fact, believe Biden\u2019s accusers but claimed she did to score political points against him. If so, she used the very serious issue of sexual assault as a cheap political cudgel.<\/p>\n

The other possibility is that she still believes the ex-veep\u2019s accusers but is comfortable teaming up with an abuser (not to mention a racist, another charged accusation Harris has thrown Biden\u2019s way).<\/p>\n

After Harris ended her own bid and Biden emerged as the presumptive nominee, she began subtly backtracking. Asked on a podcast this April about former Senate aide Tara Reade\u2019s accusation against Biden, Harris stated that Reade \u201chas a right to tell her story.\u201d Even so, \u201cthe Joe Biden I know is somebody who really has fought for women and empowerment of women.\u201d Harris added that she would be \u201chonored to serve with Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Note well the new standard: When the accusation is against a Republican foe, a woman is \u00adautomatically to be believed, period, no questions asked. But when an accusation is less politically expedient, women are owed no more than the right to be \u201cheard,\u201d and the \u00adaccused men \u00addeserve a fair hearing, as well.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s disgusting. How we treat assault and abuse allegations shouldn\u2019t depend on the personal ambitions of Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

As it is, what are voters to make of a presidential candidate accused of sexual assault by multiple women \u2014 and a running mate who has stated on the record that she believes his accusers?<\/p>\n

For the last several years, progressives have repeatedly claimed they seek the moral high ground against a Republican president with a checkered past with women. That moral high ground is now lost.<\/p>\n

The fact that Harris so eagerly climbed aboard Joe\u2019s bus says something about her character and what she really thinks about #MeToo. Far from the feminist icon she portrayed herself as during the Kavanaugh hearings, she personifies the left\u2019s weaponization of assault for political ends. The biggest losers in this game<\/a> are true victims of \u00adassault and abuse, who now face an even more daunting climb to being believed.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 addition to the Biden ticket, then, is not a great feminist achievement. Rather, it is a harsh blow to the feminist cause. Her decision to join Biden after accusing him of \u00adassault underscores, in a damning and irreversible way, how unseriously her party takes these issues when there are political ambitions at stake.<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a>: @BethanyShondark <\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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