Politico: George Will Is An Old White Guy, So He Never Should Have Written About Campus 'Rape'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Feminists are demanding Washington Post columnist George Will be fired for a Sunday column on campus sexual assaults. Politico media reporter Hadas Gold wrote “the reception from progressives went about as well as expected when an older, white, male conservative columnist writes about college sexual assaults.”

So an old white guy can’t write about the excesses of liberalism? Free speech for everyone, except the race-and-gender-privileged? Gold repeated herself a few sentences down: “Will's own identity — older, white, male and conservative — made him especially prone to liberal criticism on the subject of sexual assault.” Her piece was loaded up with angry lefties.
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Here’s how Will began his column (and the outrage):

"Colleges and universities are being educated by Washington and are finding the experience excruciating. They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous (“micro-aggressions,” often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate."

Gold utterly missed what this conservative would have raised in response: where were the feminists when the victims of sexual assault and harassment were victimized by Bill Clinton? Weren’t the liberal journalists the first to spread the insensitive theme that the Clinton “bimbos” sought privilege for themselves, and the conservative media’s thirst for bimbo stories caused the bimbos to proliferate?
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Will certainly did not say “schools shouldn’t be addressing sexual assault,” and his example suggested that consent is a very fluid concept in college relationships, given “the ambiguities of the hookup culture, this cocktail of hormones, alcohol and the faux sophistication of today’s prolonged adolescence of especially privileged young adults.”

According to Politico and the progressives, millennials can not be mocked if you're old and white and male.'

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I wrote:

Old and white? Not just. "Male" is enough. But actually, that isn't de riguer, either. You need merely be a woman who disagrees to any degree. Examples include, as mentioned above, Michelle Malkin, and there's Christina Hoff Sommers who often disagrees with feminists and is pilloried for it by them. Then consider Erin Pizzey, who was the first to open a DV shelter for women in the US. Hailed and beloved by fellow feminists, she had the temerity to hold to the original principles of feminism, which said reality ought to be the primary consideration when dealing with people, not gender (i.e., those who can do something lawful and in-demand in the marketplace should be allowed to when their gender is not an inherent aspect of the job, such as is the case for surrogate mothers, for example). This included assisting men who were DV victims because, *gasp*, men are DV victims, too. When Pizzey made the case that men needed DV shelters as well, as she was getting inquiries from men for assitance and had to turn them away, she was immediately set upon (politically) by her so-called sisters in the feminist movement. When she stuck to her convictions she was tossed out of the Old Girls' Club post-haste. Point is, being an older white man is not the key issue here, though it does add plenty of fuel to the Hate Fire that feminists have been stoking against men, and especially white men, though really, they pretty much distrust and/or despise men generally. They may feel a bit sympathetic to non-white men, but don't kid yourselves; non-white men are as much in their sites as white ones. And like white ones, they also must remain silent or only agree with the feminist line to be considered at least tolerable by feminists. As for women who dissent with them, they may well despise them more than men if for no other reason than they represent to them a turn-coat, and by example, a more authoritative source of dissent from their views than a man would be, old or young, white or not.

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One of the ironies of the reaction to Will's column is it shows the power of victim power. Claim to be a victim, and automatically you're given sympathy, help, credibility, and a relief from any responsibility. That's why feminists like to portray women as victims: being a victim gives you power with no accountability. In fact, feminists believe women have a monopoly on victimhood. Men can never be victims, especially old, white, conservative men like George Will. Such men are official villains.

When Will wrote about the privileges of victim status, he was referring to the four things I list above. He probably could have made his point in a better way. But feminists have been parlaying female victim status as a way to gain power and privilege for years.

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