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WHY BELIEVE ALL WOMEN? Shapiro defends due process & slams radical feminism - YouTube
Channel: Young America's Foundation
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Student: Obviously, in light of
everything that's going on
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at the moment, we all believe rape and
sexual assault are heinous crimes.
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We all want rapists behind bars,
but I feel that, in this climate,
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logic, evidence, and data are,
kind of, being lost in translation.
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And also, there's a very pervasive,
"You're with us or against us"
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mentality that's really doing
a lot more harm than good.
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So my question to you is: how can we
best stand up for the importance of
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due process and the presumption of
innocence, while also doing what
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we can to support survivors?
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Shapiro: I think that there is actually
a third question that I want to address
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that you didn't even ask. So I'll
address the first two, and then
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there's a third one that I think
is implicit in the first two.
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When it comes to standing up
for due process, the answer is
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we actually have to stand up for it,
even in cases where it make us
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uncomfortable, or even where we
believe that the person may be
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responsible for something bad,
because once you lose due process
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for one, you lose due process
for everybody, obviously.
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When it comes to standing up for
sexual assault survivors, I think
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the idea that we ought to take
everybody's first account with the
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respect it deserves means not
dismissing, not downplaying,
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but it also means asking the
proper questions in order to get
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at the truth. That doesn't mean
intimidating people. It doesn't
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mean calling people liars without
evidence that they're lying.
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It doesn't mean mocking them,
obviously, God forbid.
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It doesn't mean doing
any of those things.
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Throughout the Christine Blasey Ford
thing, I kept saying over, and over, and
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over, "I'm not calling her a liar.
I'm not mocking her. I don't know
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if she's lying. I don't know if she's
telling the truth. I don't know if
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mis-remembering. I don't
know any of that stuff.
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All I know is that due process requires
such and such to happen."
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Now, the real answer, in the end,
to a lot of what's happening...
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And here's the really
unpopular part with the Left.
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The Left destroyed traditional mores
with regard to relations between
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the sexes. Destroyed them wholesale.
So, the original idea was that men
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were supposed to act with honor and
chivalry in protecting women,
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and women were supposed to look
for, for example, relationships,
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just as men were. Sexual activity was
supposed to be confined...
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This was, at least, the ideal. It was
supposed to be confined to committed
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relationships, particularly marriage.
Not everybody lived up to that.
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But a huge number of people did.
In fact, once people got pregnant,
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people basically got married. Studies
from the 1930s, 1940, and 1950s
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show a lot of seven month marriage
babies, right? People who were
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sleeping together, getting pregnant,
and then the couple gets married.
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When you don't teach men to protect
women, you get men who will
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victimize women. And when you don't
teach women that they ought to
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cherish men who are responsible and
good, all you end up doing is
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incentivizing bad male behavior.
The feminist movement was
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not wrong when they said
men are acting like pigs.
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They were wrong when they said
women also ought to act like pigs,
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and that this is the solution to our
problem. Because now, what's
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happened is they got rid of traditional
mores about how sex ought to be
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connected with love and ought to be
connected with relationships.
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They got rid of all of that.
It's just a bodily function now,
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except when it comes to actual sexual
assault. We treat that differently than
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any other bodily function, obviously,
but that's the problem. They create
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this standard where sex is basically
a throwaway item, sort of like eating.
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And then we treat sex very differently
when it comes to what we all know it is,
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which is a deeply important and
intimate part of a person's life,
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and then we attempt to backdoor
standards of consent that, frankly,
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don't make any sense in a real-life
context. You get college campuses
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in California saying that what you
is a "yes means yes" standard,
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where you have a legal checklist,
I guess, where every time you do
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anything in the bedroom, you're
supposed to ask: "Am I allowed to
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touch your hand? Am I allowed to
touch your shoulder? Am I allowed
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to touch your hair?" Which has never,
ever resulted in actual fulfillment
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of a sexual encounter. It's sort of like
Zeno's Paradox. If you have
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a "yes means yes" standard, the closer
you get, the further away you are.
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And the...
[Audience laughter]
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Shapiro: And again... Women really
gave up on marriage a lot too soon.
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Marriage was the best thing ever for
women. It is an amazing thing for
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men too, because it civilizes them,
it cultures them, it teaches them
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to be protectors of their family,
and to take care of people,
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and to think beyond themselves,
and think beyond their generation.
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Women gave up in marriage a way
to teach men to do those things.
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And also, women gave up the idea
that a commitment was going to
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come along with this intimacy.
And let's be real about this.
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Every scientific study ever done has
shown that women actually do have
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better sex in the context of
committed relationships.
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All the crap that you see in "Cosmo
Magazine" about sleeping with
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100 guys and being sexually
happy is just garbage.
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It is just sheer, unadulterated garbage.
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[Audience applause]
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Shapiro: I know, a long answer to
a short question, but reinculcation of
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traditional roles of male and female
with the same feminist respect that
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we ought to have for women at all
steps of the process is the answer.
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Student: Thank you. I hope
people are listening.
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[Audience applause]
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