In times of doubt, we can look to the blessed mother independent woman, Saint Harper Lee, for Progressive guidance, reading from her scriptural tome “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1960). Lee makes three claims about rape, together which build toward shaping the foundation of American Rape ("rape culture").

If you didn’t go to a Government school and weren’t taught from the Progressive bible, “To Kill a Mockingbird” hinges on a white woman making a false rape accusation against a black man. If you’re a good Progressive, and I know you are, alarm bells should be going on in your head as you know that only white men commit American Rape, but Saint Lee first focuses our attention on the accusation itself, making sure its clear that it should carry no penalty for the woman:

“I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance… She was white and she tempted a Negro. She did something in our society that was unspeakable: she kissed a black man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.”

(Emphasis added)

Lee is able to take liberates in her rationalization of the false rape accusation by exploiting the race narrative which she knows will invalidate any criticism she may have otherwise received. If you like Mockingbird, you’re supposed to, if you don’t like Mockingbird, you’re a racist.

Her use of the word “merely” after the quick assertion that Mayella has “committed no crime” is perhaps the most disturbing part of the passage. “Merely” is reductionary and diminutive in nature as Lee wants the focus taken off the accusation. Despite the potentiality of ruining lives and wasting time, it was really no biggie.

Lee wants the emphasis on rationalizing why a woman might make a false accusation, and, as it turns out, it’s because she’s actually the victim! And, furthermore, the victim of institutionalized racism and social flaw; she had no choice, it wasn’t her fault, and she deserves sympathy.

Sympathy is reserved for everyone in “To Kill a Mockingbird” but white men. White men deserve no sympathy. They are just too damn sexy and didn’t want to take ugly little Harper Lee to the sock hop in high school. Wait, what?

Even if the fake rape accusation shouldn’t be prosecuted as a crime, Lee wants the reader to know that her stance on real rape is unflinching:

“You know rape’s a capital offense in Alabama,” said Atticus.

Jem was shaking his head. “…maybe rape shouldn’t be a capital offense…”

Atticus dropped his newspaper beside his chair. He said he didn’t have any quarrel with the rape statute, none whatever…

So, if we’re keeping score, according to Harper Lee in a book read in every single Government High School in America, a false rape accusation is forgivable because of reasons and an actual rape conviction should carry the penalty of death.

Death. The price of stolen female sexuality should be death.

Our benevolent saint explains the problem- evil male sexuality. Watch as she carefully groups immorality with heterosexuality:

“There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.”

Finally, Lee’s agenda is clear: all men are infected with immoral sexual desire, rape should be a capital offense, and a false rape accusation is really no big deal.

So, with a bit of reordering and clarification: if male sexuality is equally immoral and pervasive then all rape accusations should be taken seriously, a rape conviction should carry the penalty of death, and if the accusation is found to be false, the woman who made the accusation is actually the victim of institutionalized whatever.

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