The notion that obtaining "consent" is a get-out-of-jail free card for one& #39;s actions with respect to other human beings is amoral and intellectually lazy at best, evil at worst. /1

We have historical narratives in which formerly enslaved persons long for the days of slavery. We have historical narratives of enslaved persons who wished to remain enslaved. Are we to then conclude that a person can be enslaved if they give "consent"? /2 https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/06/slaves-who-liked-slavery/58678/">https://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...

Native American children were abducted by the governments in the US and Canada and sent to residential schools where they were abused. Some Native American parents willingly sent their children. Do we conclude that residential schools were good? /3 https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/tribes-confront-painful-legacy-of-indian-boarding-schools/">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-n...

Thousands of Native Americans "voluntarily" migrated West when told to do so by the U.S. Government. Was their displacement and the theft of their lands OK because they "consented"? /4
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We are being told that some women "consent" to being beaten and abused by men. We hear accounts from many of these women that it is their choice. That they are aroused by it. We must reject these equivocations and the misogyny they enable. /5