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One of the great evils of our time is the substitution of group justice in favor of individual justice. In reality, the word “justice” really does not need any sort of modifier; justice is always individual in nature. Social justice in and of itself undermines the notion of individual justice. If something bad happened to you on a personal level, you should have justice because you were the one damaged. If you did harm to someone else, justice should come for you because you did harm to somebody else. But we have a tendency, in a very large, diverse society with nationalized media, to turn everything into a referendum on groups in general. This has perilous consequences for a wide variety of people and, yes, a wide variety of groups. This week's is a former Buffalo Bills punter named Matt Araiza. Last August, just days after the Buffalo Bills named Matt Araiza their starting punter, Yahoo Sports reported the rookie to be the subject of a civil lawsuit alleging that he and two San Diego State football teammates participated in the gang rape of an intoxicated 17-year-old girl. San Diego police had spent nearly 10 months on the case before forwarding it to the DA without a recommendation for prosecution. Latest Releases: |
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According to reports, the Bills said they were made aware of the allegation, investigated it, and decided to commit to Araiza anyway. The graphic allegations in the civil lawsuit, however, created a public frenzy and included a claim that on October 15, 2021, during a party at a home near the SDSU campus, Araiza led the girl into a bedroom where the other men waited to rape her. Within just a couple of days of these allegations being made public, the Bills cut Araiza despite his record breaking NCAA career and an 82-yard punt in a preseason game. He had already earned the nickname “Punt God.” Araiza is still out of football, despite prosecutors announcing on December 7, 2022, that after conducting a 124-day investigation, they would not press any criminal charges in the case. Now a fuller picture is emerging. What are they finding? Apparently, there is a 200-plus-page transcript of a 100-minute meeting, obtained by Yahoo Sports, in which a deputy DA explained to both the girl and her attorney why charges were not filed. Most notably, the DA's Office concluded that Araiza could not have led the girl into the alleged gang rape because he had left the home already at 12:30 a.m., which is a full hour prior to when evidence suggested the alleged gang rape would have occurred. Additionally, prosecutors told the girl that video recordings of the incident in the bedroom made it impossible to determine if a rape had occurred, let alone be enough to prosecute anyone. 
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Araiza, whose life has been paralyzed since being named in the civil lawsuit, hopes the DA's report is enough for NFL teams to take a second look. The rape allegation appears to have been fully fabricated — but it ruined this guy's life. This is a person who was slated to make millions and millions of dollars in the NFL. He was projected to be one of the best punters in the league, and he was basically kicked out of the NFL for what now appears, by all available evidence, to be a pretty obvious false gang rape allegation. Why does this have anything to do with justice? Because the reason that Araiza was originally booted is not because people decided to treat his case as an individual case. It was a stand-in for all #MeToo incidents. This is what we now do with every single public incident that falls within a set media narrative. We determine that an incident is indicative of a broader issue that implicates society, and, therefore, we must make an example of the individual. It does not matter that prosecutors never even brought a case in a court of law. It does not matter that the evidence stacks up against the accuser in this particular case. We have made a decision as a society that the minute an accusation is made against a man, we are basically going to destroy his life. #BelieveAllWomen Latest Episode: |
Ep. 1723 - How To Ruin A Man's Life A former NFL player has his career destroyed by a false rape allegation; the media use the Allen, Texas mass shooting to broaden the definition of “white supremacy”; and Joe Biden pledges to veto more border security. |
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Based on allegations alone — because the pervasive idea is that America is a white supremacist patriarchy — it is determined that the only way to break down the patriarchy is to break a few eggs. And whether those eggs are named Matt Araiza or Brett Kavanaugh is irrelevant. The eggs must be broken. Now, of course, the same logic does not apply to valued members of the political Left. Bill Clinton is still doing just fine. So is Joe Biden. The substitution of social justice for individual justice hurts everyone. It promotes lies. And it must end. Ben Shapiro Top five headlines: |
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