I hate the people doing this because it's ignorance reigning supreme.
Testimonies are inaccurate. They just are. Eyewitness statements from people who were all 100% confirmed to have been at an event will diverge in major details. Even good witnesses are not perfectly reliable.
Hell, it's obvious if you try it yourself. Just think about an event that happened in your past, and try to remember the exact ordering of events, who said what, exactly what you felt. It's damn near impossible. Insisting a standard that people are to have 100% accuracy on an event decades ago is utterly ludicrous.
If I'm going to be me and quote Nietzsche, he summarized humans pretty well when he said:
So I don't think people who are insisting it's a false testimony should be taken seriously. It is, in fact, angering. Sexual crimes are often very confusing for the victim and difficult to come forward on. This kind of bad criminology deepens the feeling that it's helpless to do anything.
Of course, that doesn't mean each and every last accusation is 100% real. But it's my suspicion that they're more often than not real. And given the very low rate sexual crimes are even reported, nonetheless actually tried, providing some social leeway to the accuser to make her statements without pressure and to not ramrod in Kavanaugh is only appropriate.
Even if he did do it, personally I don't think even that is an auto-exclusion, so long as he conducts himself admirably during the situation. People make horrible mistakes in life, and nobody is irredeemable. But the movement of conservatives to try and hush her up, or to deny the existence of sex crimes, or to imply there's an overwhelming problem of false accusers, is harmful to our society.
It's fine to doubt, and to open up a discussion. The line is between wanting to really hear her out, or to browbeat her so Republicans can score a political victory.
I think it's cheap to immediately accuse Democrats of trying to score a political win in circumstances like these, which is something many people have done.
Do we agree that tainting the courts is now the primary political concern in America?