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In reply to the discussion: Crystal Mangum admits to fabricating 2006 Duke lacrosse scandal accusations [View all]mathematic
(1,544 posts)Even before gamer gate, "social justice warriors", and well before DEI and woke hit the mainstream we had the Duke lacrosse case.
There was a rush to judgement and a political persecution. When the case fell apart, there were no apologies. There was a lot of "the details of this case don't matter because we were right about society in general" types of responses.The failure to adhere to liberal values of due process and civil rights was swept under the rug.
I believe you can draw a line from this right to Trump 2. That's why I reject the idea of letting "harmless" ideas fester in left leaning spaces. No, I don't think political assassinations on the streets of New York should be condoned (or worse, celebrated). No, assassins do not have a point. Creating anti-liberal enclaves at universities decades ago has blown back onto today. Science denialism against vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture that went mostly unchallenged in left leaning spaces for decades has yielded RFK jr and MAHA. Indulging and promoting anti-immigrant and protectionist nativism in the mistaken belief that it's "pro-worker" has doomed Democrat's actual pro-worker policies to failure at the ballot box.
And this can go on and on. People say Democrats have a messaging problem. They do. The problem is that they don't call out the messages on the left that, if spread, undermine the goals of the Democratic party.
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