WaPo's Ruth Marcus calls #BelieveAllWomen a dumb hashtag and a dumber approach to defend Biden in WaPo op-ed

Sam J. | 11:58 AM on April 16, 2020

Ruth Marcus was one of the loudest critics when it came to Brett Kavanaugh, she even wrote a book about it. But apparently now that Joe Biden has been accused by Tara Reade of sexual assault, her tune has changed quite a bit. Not that she’s unique in this … look at Alyssa Milano who was very adamant that we should believe all women, without question.

Just not when they accuse a Democrat apparently.

Ruth’s op-ed basically undoes everything she wrote and said about Kavanaugh:

“Reflexive acceptance of any and all allegations of sexual misconduct against any man is not staunch feminism — it is dangerous credulity that risks doing terrible injustice to the accused. #BelieveAllWomen was a dumb hashtag and a dumber approach…” https://t.co/frODarea7t

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) April 16, 2020

From WaPo:

And yet. Reflexive acceptance of any and all allegations of sexual misconduct against any man is not staunch feminism — it is dangerous credulity that risks doing terrible injustice to the accused. #BelieveAllWomen was a dumb hashtag and a dumber approach to inevitably complex, fact-bound situations. I have always tried to argue in favor of fact-finding first, conviction later, whether in the court of public opinion, in the Senate confirmation process or elsewhere.

That was why I questioned “whether justice was done” in the case of former Minnesota Democratic senator Al Franken, whose precipitous resignation short-circuited a Senate Ethics Committee process that could have helped determine whether Franken’s behavior merited the equivalent of a political death sentence. That was why I argued during the Kavanaugh confirmation for a serious Senate and FBI investigation, not the limited sham that was designed less to unearth the truth than to secure the necessary 50 votes to get him confirmed.

What a bunch of bullsh*t. EL OH EL.

They believed all women until Biden, who has also been accused, became their guy.

And @RuthMarcus in one single Op Ed undermines almost everything she said about Brett Kavanaugh. https://t.co/csfEAel5zu

— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) April 16, 2020

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— Heather Champion (@winningatmylife) April 16, 2020

#BelieveAllWomen sure was a dumb hashtag. pic.twitter.com/xfdpWvExBf

— Denny Loggins (@DennyLoggins) April 16, 2020

"that risks doing terrible injustice to the accused. "

Yet that was the actual goal of the Democrats with Kavanaugh.
They knew it was a false allegation–and they didn't care.

— mallen2010 (@mallen2010) April 16, 2020

*they did know and they didn’t care because orange man bad*