OPINION:
Alex Trebek, the 78-year-old long-time host of “Jeopardy,” sat down with Vulture to talk politics and culture and #MeToo and more and said what we’ve all been thinking for some time, particularly post-Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court battle, and that’s this: It’s a “scary time” to be a guy.
Indeed. All it takes is a finger-point, a whisper, an accusation — and bam, the sexual harasser, sexual abuser, sexual attacker label is affixed. Unless the guy can prove his innocence, it’s game over, guilty as charged.
“When the #MeToo movement started, I had discussions with the staff during production meetings,” Trebek said, Vulture reported. “I said, ’My gosh, this has got to be a scary time for men.’ I’m fortunate that I’ve never been in a position of power where I might be able to lord it over somebody sexually. I said, ’But there are guys out there — young guys are stupid in their teens.’ There’s nothing stupider than a teenage boy. They’re operating on testosterone.”
And therein lies a major problem.
At what point does “stupid boy” become “criminal man?”
With the Kavanaugh hearings, the door opened wide to A) allow an accusation to become one and the same as a conviction and B) to allow an accuser the ability to go back decades in time to pull foggy memories as fact.
Forget due process. Forget justice and fair play.
The #MeToo campaign has gone far beyond its original intent to out real attackers and abusers who’ve used their fame and fortune and positions of power to abuse girls and women, and morphed into a sort of #MeSaySoYouGuilty movement. It’s been corrupted by angry radicals, far-left entities, progressive-minded partisans who want nothing more than to tear males down and take revenge on them for their maleness.
And that’s a real shame because on surface anyway, driving out the scum of male society — the ones who prey on young women for their own personal power trips — should be a no-brainer of an endeavor, one that unites both men and women of character and principle.
The left simply destroys everything it touches.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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