Everyone can agree that sexual assault and rape are some of the most traumatic experiences anyone could suffer. Liberals take pride in stating how they’re on the victim’s side — that is, unless it transgresses political correctness.
Heather Marlowe was a victim twice when she was raped by a stranger in San Francisco and when the local police botched the investigation and failed to test her rape kit. However, she refused to be silent, even when BuzzFeed censored her opinion.
Marlowe became a high-profile rape survivor when she turned her experience into a one-woman show called The Haze. She wrote a post for All Think on Wednesday describing how BuzzFeed contacted her to share her thoughts on the Stanford rape case after a student received six months in prison for sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object while she was unconscious.
The rape survivor said that she stuck to the facts of the case without giving her ideological opinion because she felt BuzzFeed was a biased news source.
In the end, the millennial website cut Marlowe’s submission because they had too many to include, but the rape survivor said her words were censored for not fitting the politically correct feminist narrative.
Unlike other opinions that said the system failed the young woman from Stanford, Marlowe said everything was handled very well. The police tested her rape kit, the investigation was thorough, the media covered the story, and the judge convicted the young man who sexually violated her.
“So when I read Joe Biden’s open letter to this victim telling her ‘…a lot of people failed you…’ I had trouble understanding what people he was referring to,” Marlowe wrote. “This victim made it all the way through the criminal justice funnel (and the sentence itself notwithstanding); the system worked – her perpetrator was tried, convicted, and sentenced.”
She also railed against social justice warriors’ idea that campus rapes should be held by university tribunals rather than the courts.
“The reality of these campus tribunals is fraught with several issues that undermine the values we as Americans have come to expect from our constitutional rights under the law,” she wrote.
All of this was too much for social justice warriors. They needed to preserve the feminist narrative, so they needed to silence someone who saw the justice system actually fail her. Trying to silence someone like Marlowe’s opinion is making them a victim all over again.
