The right´s MeToo moment?

 

I think it´s safe to say that Edward Dutton is very right-wing. Substantially more right-wing than Nigel Farage´s Reform UK. Or "based", as the saying goes. And we don´t expect such people to believe in "all women". Especially not women like Virginia Giuffre.

But...

Around the timestamps 31:00 - 49.00, there is a (confused and rambling) discussion between Dutton and a number of other far right sympatizers (one of them, strangely enough, a Black Jamaican). I didn´t listen pass the latter timestamp, but they seem to be changing subjects. 

The general tenor of the discussion is that while Giuffre´s posthumously published book is often hard to believe, there could be rational reasons even for her mistakes or confabulations. Perhaps she was abused and has suffered severe memory loss. The effect of trauma on memory is explicitly said to be another thing than crazy "therapists" planting false memories. As for Dutton, he points out that establishment abusers quite deliberately groome women who are underclass, confused and in need of money. They can be easily manipulated. And hence also easily abused.

Well, exactly. People who claim to have been raped by the Devil may be mentally ill, but why did they become mentally ill in the first place? 

I do realize that the sudden conversion of the far right to "believe all women" may have something to do with the Epstein affair, but it´s still intriguing to hear these arguments from people who often take the patriarchalist position. Meanwhile, Skeptics are usually centrist liberals and just as often attack survivors of sexual abuse. But now, *they* presumably must believe Giuffre since Epstein is seen as a Trump ally after the latter´s crash out. (Epstein skeptic Michael Tracey seems to be an exception.) 

Another thing. It´s interesting to compare the reactions of various individuals to Giuffre´s allegations. Prominent lawyer and pundit Alan Dershowitz fought her in court and eventually obtained an admission that Giuffre may have been mistaken identifying him as a serial rapist. But prince Andrew - who I assume has even more money than Dershowitz - has just quietly disappeared into the night, and de facto been expelled from the British royal court! He even paid a large sum of money to Giuffre to settle a civil law suit in the States.

While none of the above conclusively proves anything, it *could* suggest that Dershowitz really was innocent, while Andrew was guilty. 

I mean, it´s almost as if the world is complicated or something...