So, this Russell Brand thing. Is it an open-and-shut case of rape? Or is it a stitch-up by “the regime”?
, which are grim, have not been tested in a rigorous enough fashion for any of us to be able to say: “He is guilty of sexual assault.”
That way tyranny lies. Without the guardrail of the presumption of innocence, without the democratic requirement of proving someone’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before we mark him a “criminal” and banish him from the public eye, society would descend into chaos. Lives and reputations might be destroyed by the mere point of a finger.
That skepticism is best embodied in the presumption of innocence, which implicitly encourages us to doubt, at some level, the word of theIt is bizarre that Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” has become the literary moral anchor of the modern West, and yet its core cry — that it is wrong to rush to judgment even in cases of alleged rape — has been lost to history.
Yet where there is a dearth of democratic skepticism in the “Believe women” lobby, there’s been a warping of skepticism among Brand’s followers and in the broader “anti-regime” set. Numerous men have been the subject of #MeToo-style accusations, including men who have all the “correct” opinions. Harvey Weinstein was a full-on Democrat, for heaven’s sake.
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