Comments by "Rob McCune" (@robm6645) on "Caller Doesn't Like David's Answers About Harvey Weinstein" video.
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I admit it is a lot to unpack, but let me explain in brief. This caller doesn't care about the culture of false accusations that landed the central park 5 in prison or called for them to be executed, or the kind that landed all the people exonerated by the innocence project on death row. These kinds of things are actually embedded in American culture, they have been there for the callers entire lifetime, and the consequences are far more damaging than a rich man becoming a public pariah, and that is the difference He has no problem with a culture of false accusations that puts innocent people on death row because those people are assumed to be a threat in their day to day lives, but has a problem with a culture of accusations that results in public scandal for people previously deemed to be upstanding citizens, like the boss he sucks up to or the Jones's he's trying to keep up with. From this it is clear that the culture "believing accusations" is not the issue. The difference then can be attributed to who is on the receiving end of these accusations. The newer trend is accusations against powerful and wealthy people who are assumed to be good by society, on the other hand the people exonerated by the innocence project or the central park 5 are poor and come from backgrounds that lead to a societal assumption that they are criminals before they were falsely accused of crimes and exonerating evidence was ignored or suppressed because of that. From this difference between the people he concerned about(wealthy men assumed to be upstanding citizens) and those who have actually been falsely accused(poor young men assumed to be dangerous) it's clearly about these accusations scandalizing powerful men rather than "a culture of false accusations."
If someone values the social status of people above them and is concerned about this social hierarchy being disruptive this means they value that hierarchy and order. Emphasizing that hierarchy and order over other concerns such as justice is a strong affinity toward authority and people who consistently do so are authoritarians. Authoritarians understand and relate to the world through hierarchy and differentiate people by their status in that hierarchy, higher status people are those who they deem to have authority while lower status people are expected to be servile or seen as threats if they do not conform. We can see this in the caller's view that this is not victims coming forward, but "oppression olympics." He views this as people trying to climb in social status(which is what he views victimhood as) rather than trying to rectify or seek justice for wrongs done to them. We have established the caller values the wealth and perceived status of figures such as Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Bill O'reilly, Roger Ailles, etc. over concerns of justice for the victims. A culture where accusations against people like that are treated seriously makes him uncomfortable, but he voiced no objections to the way false accusations have falsely imprisoned or executed innocent people with the help of police and prosecutors. From this we can conclude the caller is an authoritarian with regard to the current societal order of power and privilege for famous wealthy people based on how he views scandals and civil suits compared to false convictions and executions.
So since the caller is an authoritarian and views wealthy powerful men as people possessing status and authority and views these accusations by women as disruptive to the order of that hierarchy, or the culture as he calls it. The issue here is that high status men are using their power and authority to violate the bodily autonomy of women with impunity. This is an injustice, assuming that one views violations of bodily autonomy and consent to be categorically wrong in all instances. Based on the aforementioned assumption, seeking to rectify the situation of wealthy powerful men using their power and authority to violate the bodily autonomy and consent of women is the pursuit of justice. This same pursuit of justice is what the caller views as so dangerous to the culture, aka socio-economic hierarchy and the order it provides. From this we can conclude the caller views order as more important than justice, and this is consistent with the caller being an authoritarian. By expressing concern that women's bodily autonomy is a threat to order he is showing that he views that perceived order to be a higher priority than women's bodily autonomy and by valuing the socio-economic status of these men over justice for the women who are their victims he shows that he views them as lower in that socio-economic order. Since he is an authoritarian that comes the assumption that their assertion of their grievances, their rights and their needs against people deemed to have higher status is dangerous and that they are untrustworthy for doing so.
Long story short: What we can determine is that he is an authoritarian who values order and social status more than the lives of human beings especially women who he regards as lesser and untrustworthy as well as having contempt for their bodily autonomy.
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