Sounds about right

These people are emotionally disturbed. A handful of cynical operatives, on the payroll of tax-exempt non-profit organizations, can assemble a mob of vulnerable young women — most of whom are under treatment for depression, anxiety, eating disorders or other mental illnesses — seeking some cause to give meaning to their pathetic and lonely lives...

They remind me of what Orwell said about socialism in the 1930s: One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words “Socialism” and “Communism” draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, “Nature Cure” quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

from theOtherMcCain, commenting on a near riot at an Australian university against a feminist but non PC speaker.

hmmm... sounds like not much has changed since I was in college in the 1960s.

after VietNam fell and 2 million people fled, the Cambodian holocaust happened, and a million people were sent to reeducation camps where tens of thousands died, one didn't hear a peep out of them, let alone a movement to help these people.

because it's about me me ME, not about the poor, or suffering, or real victims.

so excuse my cynicism.

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update: As for the big kerfuffle in the US over a lady who claims she had a guy feel her up once, somewhere, sometime: and therefore, they need to make an FBI case about it and destroy the guy's reputation.

well, excuse my cynicism but every woman has had a guy come on to her probably many guys if she is good looking and sending out subtle signals she is willing. But like most of us, it seems the guy in the incident stopped when she protested before anything happened.

What is interesting is that 36 years later, she remembers the guy's name but nothing else was clear. I don't remember the names of half the guys I dated, even those I had to slug to say no: and I didn't drink or use drugs back then.

So how did she know who it was? or did some incident happen (she seems to have had quite a few lovers, so apparently was quite a party girl back then), and she later supplied a name to it?

the gal is a psychologist and should know how the mind distorts memories.

This is called the Rashomon effect.