What’s inside the mind of a pro-crime leftist? Some identify vicariously with the criminal as a source of revolutionary violence while others go into a kind of Stockholm Syndrome driven by white guilt and bleeding heart liberalism.
‘Why I Didn’t Report My Rape’, Anna Krauthammer, writing at the radical leftist The Nation goes all in on pro-crime guilt. The author, a grad student who claims to have been gang raped, read Angela Davis and declares that she’s a ‘prison abolitionist’.
“There in that hotel, a little over four years ago, I was raped by a group of men during a three-day trip I took to Las Vegas with two of my best friends. Of the rape, which lasted all night,” she writes. “The simple answer to the question of why I never reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition of police and prisons.”
“I don’t want to ruin the lives of my rapists and I don’t know if they have children,” she blathers. “I have believed in and used the term prison abolition for at least a decade, but for less time than I’ve felt in my bones that I could never participate in any chain of events that might send someone to prison.”
“Others have tried, too; friends have spoken patiently to me about how, even if I don’t want to do it for myself, pursuing legal action against those men who hurt me might protect other women someday,” she writes and rejects that logic.
The end point here is that the safety of other women matters less than the safety of rapists. Much as, similarly in woke reasoning, the safety of women and girls matters less than the men who want to pretend to be them.
This is what moral inversion does to morality. It makes the perpetrators into the victims and vice versa. Women are told to practice a Gandhiesque liberalism in which they must accept being raped rather than send a rapist to jail.
This is the endpoint of ‘Abolish ICE”, “BLM”, “Defund the Police’ and the entire mad spectacle of pro-crime policies.
If you want to understand how Anna’s vicious moral inversion plays out globally, she has another article attacking Jewish women for discussing Hamas sexual assaults.
“Shortly after the attack, rumors began to circulate that Hamas soldiers had sexually assaulted Israeli women on a wide scale during Operation al-Aqsa Flood; that December, the New York Times bolstered these claims with the publication of “Screams Without Words,” an article that contained multiple accounts of assault. The report galvanized the Israeli war effort, mitigating public opposition to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal campaign. To watch rape’s callous weaponization play out in real time, as the sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by Hamas abetted the manufacture of consent for the merciless slaughter of “savage” Palestinians, was to understand in the cruelest and starkest of terms just how eagerly imperial forces will alight upon even the allegation of rape to rationalize their projects.”
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was, in part, justified by the need to “save” women from repression and sexual violence. Take Laura Bush’s infamous defense of bombing Afghanistan after 9/11: “The fight against terrorism is a fight for the rights and dignity of women.” A week after bombs began dropping, Democratic representative Carolyn Maloney donned a burqa on the House floor to declare the offensive a “just war, which we have no choice but to wage” while invoking the Taliban’s many restrictions on women’s lives and their consequences.
For instance, at the same time that the United States has imposed devastating economic sanctions on Iran, individuals have been able to apply for asylum in the United States on the basis of persecuted identity—though that seems all but certain to change… She makes vivid how refugee regimes reduce the entire material conditions of Iranian refugees solely to one aspect of their existence: gender.
The apologetic for her rapists is part of the larger apologetic for the Islamic brutalization of women in Israel, Afghanistan, and Iran.
This is the innate evil of moral inversion. And when you understand that moral inversion is the ultimate sign of evil, you understand everything.
