I was going to be lazy and not post anything today, but I was so moved by Sady's post about the way she's been stressing herself out with the #mooreandme campaign, that I had to say something in support. This isn't, for me, about Michael Moore posting Julian Assange's bail. Or coming down affirmatively on the subject of Assange's guilt. I've maintained, in the face of great pressure to be stupid about this, that we can be intelligent people who can handle the thought that Interpol being ridiculous doesn't mean that the accusers are lying. (I've also often pointed that O.J. was framed, and he was guilty. You can plant evidence on a guilty man, and often the police do because they get upset that someone guilty might go free.) We can do it! We can believe that Assange is being targeted for something other than the actual rape charges, and that it's still wrong to engage in standard issue rape apologist crap aimed at the accusers. And that, by the way, is the main problem with Michael Moore---not that he posted bail. (Which is good, imo, because Assange was being badly treated in captivity, if for no other reason.) He went full blown rape apologist, including dismissing the charges with "the condom broke", which is not the charge and, contrary to what right wing British tabloids say, it's not a crime to have a truly accidental contraception mishap in Sweden.
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