Feminist Katha Pollitt wrote a column in The Nation magazine attacking Tera Reade's sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden. She brings up slight inconsistencies in her story, the fact that she supported Sanders in the election, although I'm not sure why supporting the candidate who didn't sexual assault her over the one who did would raise doubts about her credibility.
Pollitt tried to raise her little doubts. They do that in every case, including the ones that are proven to be true. Look at Weinstein, or Brett Kavanaugh. It's not hard to do.
Pollitt decided to start with a joke. She said she would vote for Biden even if he boiled babies and ate them. Pollitt wrote a recent pro-abortion book called Pro---she doesn't think her terrible joke is going to come up in abortion debates? If she wanted to start with a joke, why didn't she write something funny? She thinks the reaction to it---that more people have attacked that than the rest of the column---is somehow a point in her favor.
Cannibalism isn't even a crime in most places. Cannibals get locked up for murder. How they dispose of their victims is a secondary issue. Biden has in fact played a role in the deaths of thousands of babies in Iraq, Palestine, Yemen, Libya, Syria and elsewhere.
Pollitt herself is outraged that anyone would dare boycott Israel over its slaughter of Palestinian children, not to mention the adults. What is her feminist reasoning behind that? Blood is thicker than brains apparently.
All this is after Pollitt's column attacking "the left" for defending Julian Assange. "...when it comes to rape, the left still doesn’t get it."
If abortion is Pollitt's issue, why the hatred for Russia? She attacks Reade for failing to adequately hate Vladimir Putin. You can get an abortion in any hospital in Russia and the hospitals are free. Most of the doctors there are women, they're all trained in performing abortions and they consider it medically ethical. You couldn't ban abortion there if you wanted to. Now that "Russiagate" has completely fallen apart, are we still supposed to hate Russia? For what exactly? If you can overlook Biden boiling and eating babies, what could you possibly have against Putin?
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