Evidence-Free Destruction of Reputations
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-left-continues-to-destroy-itself
"The Left Continues to Destroy Itself and Others With Evidence-Free Destruction of Reputations.
Equating accusations with proven fact is reckless and repressive. It is also standard behavior in liberal politics, whereby they ruin lives without a second thought....
When Joe Biden was the presumptive nominee against Donald Trump, they quickly vilified his accuser Tara Reade as a mentally unwell liar — just as they did in the 1990s, to the group of women who accused Bill Clinton of various levels of sexual impropriety, including rape.
When something like the presidency is at stake, female accusers of key Democratic male leaders are to be mocked and destroyed, not believed.
That is because there is no discernible principle at play. It is only about power. Why was the highly educated Christine Blasey Ford to be believed, with no evidence in her accusations against Brett Kavanaugh, and why is [Scott] Stringer’s accuser, political consultant Jean Kim, to be believed, but Reade was not, even though she had *more* evidence of contemporaneous complaints, to support her allegations?
But the far more important point is, that any culture that is willing to destroy reputations and lives, based on totally unproven accusations, is one that is *inherently* corrupt and unjust.
The ability to destroy someone’s life, with nothing more than an uncorroborated claim, voiced more than eighteen years after the alleged incident, is a power with which nobody should be trusted."