JUST AWFUL – AT 1:25 P.M. ET:  This is identity politics at its worst.  From Fox: 

Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono blasted “the men in this country,” blaming them for sexual assault and urged them to “just shut up and step up” amid allegations of misconduct against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

At a press conference Tuesday evening, the Hawaii Democrat made the sweeping generalization against “the men” in the U.S. for “perpetuating” sexual assault.

“I expect the men in this country and the men on this committee, because we all signed onto this letter, to demand an FBI investigation,” Hirono said, referring to a request that the FBI investigate the claims made by Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.

“But really, guess who is perpetuating all of these kinds of actions? It’s the men in this country. And I just want to say to the men in this country: just shut up and step up, do the right thing for a change,” Hirono said.

COMMENT:  What a jerk.  The fact is that women have men in their lives – fathers, husbands, brothers, sons, grandsons – and they care about them, and care about them being fairly treated. 

No one denies that sexual assaults occur.  Of course they do.

But in a democracy we demand a high standard of justice, for false or incorrect charges are made all the time.  We insist that the accused have the right to face his accuser.  We insist on real evidence, taken under oath.  We insist that a case be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.  We insist that justice be separated from politics.

The senator's comments are bigoted and ignorant, as is she.  She does the real cause of assaulted women great harm.  She may not care, as political gain is the motive, not justice for women.

September 19, 2018