Cornell 7 crisis is a consequence of online porn and the sex-positive left

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”Political strategists from Niccolo Machiavelli to Winston Churchill to Rahm Emanuel have promoted that notion — and now it’s having another moment, as leftist activists and candidates latch on to the “Cornell 7” rape case as a means of advancing their own ends. And while these opportunists wield Jane Doe as their latest cudgel, they’re closing their eyes to how their own ideology fueled a culture that reduces women to mere sexual objects.Early Monday, Cornell University campus activists shattered windows and graffitied an administration building with messages like “Smash the Patriarchy” — all, they said, “for Jane Doe.”Their manifesto ordered administrators to “resign and turn power over to the students,” while also (of course) denouncing the university’s relationship with Israel. But the students were just following the lead of politicians like Gov.Kathy Hochul and Rep.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both of whom have seized the chance to turn the case into a culture-war issue ahead of November’s elections.They contend that Jane Doe has been exploited, and their answer to that alleged sexual exploitation is political exploitation. Last week AOC used a town hall appearance in Ithaca to pour kerosene on the outrage flames, going well beyond Doe’s civil complaint by claiming that “seven men drugged and gang-raped” the young woman after they “lured her into a frat house, drugged her with ketamine, and took turns gang raping her for seven hours.”Hochul, embroiled in an increasingly competitive reelection campaign, has inserted herself into the legal proceedings, removing the local district attorney and installing Attorney General Letitia James (also, what do you know, seeking reelection) to investigate. Surprisingly, The New York Times delivered a more nuanced account, reporting that Doe came to describe the encounter as rape only after people on campus began joking about it  — and after ...