The Argument Against Affirmative Consent Laws Gets Voxjacked

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2014-10-21 01:54

Article here. Excerpt:

'Two days ago, Ezra Klein, the editor of Vox.com, penned what may be the most repulsive article yet on the subject of affirmative consent laws. Klein's argument in a nutshell: yes, these laws are overbroad and will probably result in innocent men being expelled from college over ambiguous charges. Which is good, because the college rape crisis is so terrible and the need to change the norms of sexual behavior is so urgent that this requires a brutal and ugly response. Or, as Joe Stalin was fond of saying, "When you chop wood, chips must fly." That's the Russian equivalent of “You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.”

Toward the end, Klein writes:

"Then there's the true nightmare scenario: completely false accusations of rape by someone who did offer consent, but now wants to take it back. I don't want to say these kinds of false accusations never happen, because they do happen, and they're awful. But they happen very, very rarely."

I only just found out, from this column by James Taranto, that the link in this passage goes to my recent piece on Slate XX.

The whole point of which was to rebut the idea that false accusations of rape are so infinitesimally rare that they needn't be a serious factor in deciding whether laws dealing with sexual assault are unfair to the accused.'

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... Klein decided to risk the bad press by writing what perhaps he meant as a humor piece which actually quoted Stalin in the context of politics in a positive light?

I'd imagine a pre-written, pre-scheduled for publication explanation of the piece as an example of the kind of kooky support the craziness today's feminists want to see on college campuses embodies. But no such thing has been released.

Some people can end an entire career with a misplaced word. Some, a sentence. Others, an article. This dude's was an article, his swan song sung, in praise of Stalin-esque moral relativity, no less: Crack those eggs, so long as the chicks who would've been hatched from them are male collegiates.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2014-10-21 02:36