Now that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is accused of not just attempted sexual assault and harassment but also of helping to organize a gang rape during his high school years, some people have asked whether the allegations called to mind the infamous University of Virginia gang rape hoax.
The Kavanaugh accusations, while not totally solid in every way, are significantly more plausible than the story an anonymous victim, "Jackie," told to Rolling Stone in 2014.
The Kavanaugh accusation is not as outlandish as this.
For another, Swetnick has accused a specific person: Kavanaugh.
It's possible Swetnick is trying to link Kavanaugh with Cosby here, because even though the use of these drugs to incapacitate people are a real problem, some evidence suggests they aren't used nearly as often as people seem to think.
This is a somewhat more difficult circumstance to accept on face value-would the men really just wait outside the door, in a manner that made it obvious they were patiently waiting for their opportunity to commit rape, in full view of other party attendees? Note that the most plausible of the allegations against Kavanaugh, the one made by Ford, involves no such thing: She claimed that Kavanaugh dragged her into a bedroom when she was away from the rest of the group, and attempted to rape her with just his close confidant, Mark Judge, watching.
Given the number of people who have accused Kavanaugh and Judge of teen sexual misbehavior and serial alcoholism-misbehavior that Kavanaugh has denied completely, rather than claimed to not remember or at least acknowledged was not unheard of in his private school set-one would have to think that this is essentially a conspiracy to derail his nomination.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/09/26/brett-kavanaugh-gang-rape-swetnick
The Kavanaugh accusations, while not totally solid in every way, are significantly more plausible than the story an anonymous victim, "Jackie," told to Rolling Stone in 2014.
The Kavanaugh accusation is not as outlandish as this.
For another, Swetnick has accused a specific person: Kavanaugh.
It's possible Swetnick is trying to link Kavanaugh with Cosby here, because even though the use of these drugs to incapacitate people are a real problem, some evidence suggests they aren't used nearly as often as people seem to think.
This is a somewhat more difficult circumstance to accept on face value-would the men really just wait outside the door, in a manner that made it obvious they were patiently waiting for their opportunity to commit rape, in full view of other party attendees? Note that the most plausible of the allegations against Kavanaugh, the one made by Ford, involves no such thing: She claimed that Kavanaugh dragged her into a bedroom when she was away from the rest of the group, and attempted to rape her with just his close confidant, Mark Judge, watching.
Given the number of people who have accused Kavanaugh and Judge of teen sexual misbehavior and serial alcoholism-misbehavior that Kavanaugh has denied completely, rather than claimed to not remember or at least acknowledged was not unheard of in his private school set-one would have to think that this is essentially a conspiracy to derail his nomination.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/09/26/brett-kavanaugh-gang-rape-swetnick
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