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This is all just so frustrating and sad. Her life will never be the same. #MeToo 
has taken a hit. Could have been avoided through thorough journalism. But the absolutely irresponsible, self-interested people who pushed these claims will never, ever take responsibility. https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1263854296895897600
has taken a hit. Could have been avoided through thorough journalism. But the absolutely irresponsible, self-interested people who pushed these claims will never, ever take responsibility. https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1263854296895897600
It makes me so livid. The same people who pushed these claims also brush off and denigrate feminists as "liberals," then attacked us as hypocrites for not jumping on this story before it was properly reported. Those of us who care about sexual violence understood the stakes.
It was all a game of dishonest, cynical gotcha from the beginning, from the right of course, but also from bad actors on the left who have low-key (and sometimes high-key) hated feminists since at least 2016. They used this as a cudgel with no regard to who & what they damaged.
The damage is tremendous, not least to Tara herself, but also to sexual assault survivors everywhere, & to hopes for fair investigations & processes. It's all a big shit sandwich, and it didn't have to be this way. But arrogant ideologues cosplaying journalists created this mess.
In a fairer universe this debacle would be so professionally damaging that the worst offenders would never be taken seriously again, but instead they will keep publishing their vanity projects & those of us who care about women will spend the next decade or so cleaning this up.
Some of us actually do give a fuck about women & sexual violence; to some of us, this isn't a political game, it is a very sincere and earnest personal investment in a set of issues that transcend electoral politics. It's life-long work, not about scoops or candidates or gotchas.
Anyway, I am still waiting for an apology from anyone who pushed this story without proper investigation, who used an unvetted story as a cudgel to attack feminists & feminist organizations, or who cynically used a clearly unvetted claim to demand Biden step down. So far: Silence
