Columbia PhD candidate, Anna Krauthamer, has caused a stir over her column in the far-left Nation on “Why I Didn’t Report My Rape.” The reason? Krauthamer is a prison abolitionist and wanted to protect her rapists, saying it would be “silly and strange” for her to subject these rapists to the carceral state. Instead, she allegedly allowed multiple rapists to potentially rape other women.
In her column, Krauthamer alleged that she was gang raped in a Las Vegas hotel room for several hours. She explained that she “never did anything about it” and “the simple answer to the question of why I never reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition of police and prisons.”
She added:
“The prospect of being a participant in other people’s incarceration is as alien to me as anything could be, to the point that I can only conceive of it in childish terms – how silly and strange it would be to have a group of people incarcerated at my expense when doing so would do nothing to fix the damage they have already so thoroughly done.”
Rather than having concerns about future victims, Krauthamer said that these rapists would be the victims of a carceral state: “I don’t want to ruin the lives of my rapists, and I don’t know if they have children. The only thing I want is for them to have never done what they did to me – and nothing, including sending them to prison, will ever change that reality.”
Whether you call it virtuous or virtue-signaling, the suggestion is that rapists would never be sent to prison for their crimes in a nation without prisons. This is a PhD candidate at a leading university. She is not alone. Some faculty members have espoused the same anarchist position. In places like Columbia, this absurdist position is considered intellectually valuable while the faculty has largely purged any conservatives and libertarians from their ranks.
If the subject of this column is crazy, what about these 9 states?
***
As of August 2024, 9 of the 14 states with total abortion bans (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas) do not allow for exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
. The conquering hordes appreciate it.
Your point?
I don’t think the kids of the Leave it to Beaver, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and Father Knows Best families turned out this way, this weird.
What the —— happened, America?
. The anti-hero?
Unfortunately everyone handles trauma in their own way, in her case, the event has ‘made her special’, put her in a ‘special’ position. That tells me she doesn’t feel special just for being herself. If she could simply process it and accept it was not her fault, she could de-personalize from it. It happened TO her, not because of her. The hard part is it requires healthy self-worth to perceive this correctly, sexual assault victims are often chosen for lacking it.
Fiction is the operative term in her biography. She has much in common with Trump’s accuser. A fertile imagination, an “I’m the victim” mindset, and suddenly you have your bona fides to get your PhD in sexual violence studies.
She must have enjoyed the gang rape.
You disgusting idiot.
Phil’s comment is barbarous, illegitimate, and insidious, BUT no more barbarous, illegitimate, and insidious than Kratuhamer’s own destructive rationale….
There is surely no difference between them, except this: Kratuhamer provides the prototypal permission and normalization for such crime and reaction.
Ah, so this disgusting idiot knows a disgusting idiot when she sees one.
Clearly Krauthamer did not exhibit a significant degree of revulsion, leaving the only option, delight.
Weirdos abound.
Enjoyed it so much that she wants other women to share the joy.
Hmm, she could further virtue signal if she helped out even more criminals, if she would just submit herself to more crime…
Maybe there’s a hungry mugger in the back alley she could get robbed by? Help a brother out?
Nigerian Princes always have their hand out in need… She could at least leave her car unlocked or she’s a monster.
Kratuhamer’s parents ought to be flogged for raising such a morally degenerate, woman-hating, incorrigible monkey. She must have been born and raised on the far left of far-left.
Perhaps Krauhamer should also defend her PhD dissertation in a prison yard.
Flogged? As should yours for raising a knucklehead and degenerate.
You miss the point entirely: Krauthamer defending her point of view, where it would be most dangerous (in fact, unconscionable), should naturally point up the fact of her degeneracy, her reckless negligence.
Krauthamer’s lack of intelligence, bereft of any wisdom, is itself the danger. In other words, she’s the knucklehead.
. She’s been raped so many times it’s acceptable. A statement by a woman like -> nobody’s girl. It must b3 acceptable because nothing ever happens .
A true 3rd world experience leaving out dynamite vests of course and stoning. 😏
Fix something today. Maybe wash the windows.
^^^ additionally there’s a parallel with the protection of illegally present in the USA as a felony and the protection of them as our neighbors.
Ms Krauthamer can be seen at protests as a protector of the rapist at trial. Hannah Dugan is such a woman.
Congress is plagued by estrogen poisoning. Show your draft cards.
. I haven’t read anything else about her. I haven’t any idea what’s she’s symbolizing. She does say “pay for it” as in money regarding incarceration . Perhaps she thinks the death penalty is appropriate?
Certainly a rock bottom depression shown? She can write anything she wants. Poor girl…
I believe this about as much as I believe Ilhan Omar was attacked by a “Trump” supporter living on SS disability. Maybe he squirted some Trump pee pee on her Mook ass, wrung from the sheets of Oblamo’s hotel bed.
Hey stupid, the subject is Krauthammer.
Consider another thought experiment. Take every major source of unrest today, regardless of ideology or cause. Ask whether the grievance is real, and then ask what consistently follows. Is enforcement reformed or delegitimized? Is due process protected or treated as an obstacle? Does accountability remain equal, or does it become selective? And when norms collapse, does power disperse, or does it concentrate upward while ordinary citizens lose protection? If the answers keep coming back the same, what does that suggest about what is really happening? And does it point to a deeper erosion of first principles that once anchored civil society? The final question worth asking is this: who quietly gains authority, discretion, and insulation from consequence as all of this unfolds?
🤔The silence itself may be instructive. This blog is very good at examining individual failures, but it seems far less willing to engage a harder question I raised years ago and still think matters most: when a society shows breakdowns across many domains, might they share common roots? I have argued there are three: widespread civic ignorance, growing civic apathy, and increasing dependence on the state in place of self-government. When those conditions persist, the specific controversies almost do not matter. We end up debating symptoms while the causes continue to reproduce them. Without doing the harder work of addressing those roots, what we should expect is not improvement but deterioration. And at some point, a forum that repeatedly avoids that inquiry risks becoming a playground for unserious thinking, more interested in reacting to each new controversy than in understanding why these failures keep worsening rather than resolving.
Perhaps that’s the question she’s asking, Olly.
Protecting criminals appears to be in vogue.
My apologies, but I’m not clear as to what “she” and what question you are suggesting she had in mind.
And at some point, a forum that repeatedly avoids that inquiry risks becoming a playground for unserious thinking, more interested in reacting to each new controversy than in understanding why these failures keep worsening rather than resolving.
Today is the memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas. He would have disagreed with your assessment in why our society shows breakdowns across many domains. (my avatar image is of the Dumb Ox). I have answered your question many times so your above comment is surprising
…a forum that repeatedly avoids that inquiry risks becoming a playground for unserious thinking
Yup. The 7 Deadly Sins apply now more than ever.
Why did the Son of God have to suffer for us? There was a great need, and it can be considered in a twofold way: in the first place, as a remedy for sin, and secondly, as an example of how to act.
It is a remedy, for, in the face of all the evils which we incur on account of our sins, we have found relief through the passion of Christ. Yet, it is no less an example, for the passion of Christ completely suffices to fashion our lives. Whoever wishes to live perfectly should do nothing but disdain what Christ disdained on the cross and desire what he desired, for the cross exemplifies every virtue.
http://www.liturgies.net/saints/thomasaquinas/readings.htm#loh
St Thomas Aquinas pray for us!
Thank you for the response. I don’t disagree with Aquinas, but Jefferson’s appeal to the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God matters here. Civil society cannot rely on shared theology alone, even while recognizing a moral order beyond man. Sin explains why disorder is possible. Civic formation explains why it becomes systemic. Reason untethered from first principles does not remain reasonable, it becomes ideological.
Until we address ignorance, apathy, and dependence as civic root causes, we will keep debating symptoms while conditions continue to worsen.
She needs to sit with her legs crossed, too much air is getting to her brain. I wonder how she would feel about it if in 8 months she tests positive for HIV?
This is proof as to why insane asylum’s need to be reopened
Agree, and put morons like you into them.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Try USA.
She has the ‘virtue’ of consistency. In other words, if you conscientiously adopt nihilist left wing ideology, then yes, you should not report any crime, even those committed against you personally. I presume this means that if she witnessed a murder, even of somebody she loves, on a moral basis, she would not report it. I have a friend who is a former leftie and now finds the world to be getting more and more crazy. I keep pointing out to her that any decent human being, who is self supporting and thinks for himself or herself, will find the fully consistent implementation of left wing ideology to be completely lunatic and overtly self destructive.
“Krauthamer is a prison abolitionist and wanted to protect her rapists . . .” (JT)
That evil plus anti-ICE sanctuary cities —
Welcome to the modern Left: The party that protects murderers, child traffickers, gang rapists. Their future, innocent victims be damned.
It is hard to imagine a more grotesque perversion of justice.
” protect her rapists” speaks of Stockholm Syndrome.
What’s her discipline- polysci, literature, criminal justice? I have no idea.
I don’t follow her.
Why are no trolls jumping in here to oppose Professor Turley? Gigi? George/Svelaz/X? Where are you? Why don’t you pipe up and defend this woman’s position?
As a woman who engages in thought before spouting nonsense, I find her position unsupportable. Maybe Mr. Turley can find some legal means of finding her a complicit accomplice to future rapes by these men.
You opened your bigmouth, so you do it. Argue it from a liberals position. Betcha can’t do it. Why, you lack intelligence.
Anon – I actually think replacing prisons with public whipping would not be a terrible idea. It would inflict more immediate and physical pain, and thus be more likely to prevent recidivism (as well as act as a better general deterrent to others). It would also be much cheaper for the taxpayers. It would, as well, eliminate the phenomenon where sometimes prison becomes a “crime school” for less severe offenders, who when released end up committing more serious crimes.*
*Additionally, it would eliminate the problem of some people committing crimes just to get back into jail where they get three hots and a cots, and the environment is structured. While admittedly that is a motivation in only a minority of cases, it does happen, and it leads to innocent people being victimized.
Okay, your turn. Poke holes in my argument. That would do me a favor since then I might see some weaknesses that I previously overlooked 🙂
NotSoOld: Many years ago, high school or undergrad, some teacher/professor somewhere told our class that in old China, a seated, restrained convicted person was subjected to his peers/fellow countrymen lining up to pass him, one by one, and make it known to him what they thought of him. They were not allowed to touch or physically attack him, but in a protracted and long line, they would spit on him, chastise him, insult him, wish him death, tell him how they lost all respect for him, etc.
And the reason I remember this, albeit without details, is that the teacher/professor who told this to us was convinced that this was superior in effect/consequence to that of a removed, stoic, stone-faced jury, PLUS had more effect on residual remorse than imprisonment or any kind of corporal punishment. Certainly made us think.
I have never seen this in any textbooks, and since I mostly went to Catholic schools/college/law school, I wonder if that was just subliminal instruction to induce reflection,, or whether that was true?
Interesting, Lin. That’s an option I have never thought of. And it would have many of the same benefits as whipping, at least in terms of avoiding all the ills of imprisonment that I mentioned.
“Never thought of” huh? That proves it, you’re an idiot, incapable of grasping issues and facts.
. The Chinese idea smacks of Jesus teaching of telling the individual the crime committed and if that doesn’t work stand up in the synagogue and tell everyone. Often people have a sudden realization of their behavior. It’s blindness to one’s own faults idea.
Dunno
Anonymous and NotSoOld: Not familiar with the Jesus story, but clearly, as sentient beings (religious or not) we are much more sensitive to having those around us knowing of our flaws, weaknesses, sins, etc. than strangers whom we do not know. I also do not remember if this was the sole punishment (soul punishment, ha ha?) or in combination with a monetary fine, loss of possessions or land, etc. but it clearly preceded contemporary/institutional punishment.
p.s. reminds me that our parents used to tell us that they were going to send us “on a slow boat to China” if we didn’t behave. It frightened us, for whatever reason.
Jesus? WTF are you babbling about. Jesus ….. geez.
clown, did you read the comment just above at 2:25? apparently more than your tunnel vision can see.
OMFK
I’m in agreement on one condition. Depending on the severity of the crime, whipping to death is in the mix.
. Ms Krauthamer relates in another writing the vast number of female victims. She’s lived in a very rough immoral world is the only conclusion with this scant tidbit of information.
She’s researching the topic in contemporary fiction and adding to the genre as a way of processing the crime.
Is it PhD material? It can be. What about Madame Bovary? Quite scandalous?
If it’s a “movement”, She’s a perv.
I’m an ordinary person.
What argument? You did not respond to the challenge: defend HER argument. Its obvious now that you don’t possess intellect.
That’s like saying: defend the position that raping people is good. You’re a moron.
Why are no trolls jumping in here to oppose Professor Turley? Gigi? George/Svelaz/X? Where are you?
Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
😉
I wonder, is this woman too far gone even for them? Is there a communist holiday I don’t know about? Have they all been called to duty by iran?
Have they gone end-stage-TDS???
Communist holiday? That’s you contribution? Iran? TDS? Brainless twerp.
You aren’t contributing anything. Obviously you consider yourself to be intellectually far superior to anyone else here, but you’ve certainly not demonstrated it.
You strike me as an overweight, unwashed 38 year-old incel, living in your Mom’s basement, dependent on your Mom’s Social Security for your sustenance.
And now I have planted that image of you in the brains of everyone here. 😁
This is the ideology of self-immolation. “I am willing to burn myself to death to teach society a valuable lesson.” The real lesson is that you can’t change anything if you’re dead. If her alleged experience was as bad as she claims, the logical position would be that I don’t want it to happen to me or anyone else again. The illogical position would be to announce to all the potential rapists in the world that, should he choose to rape you, you won’t report it. As the father of a daughter, please don’t do us any favors.
Her account sounds fake.
This left wing femme is truly out of her marbles. What would she say or do if her mother was gang raped ?. She is sick . It’s like stockholm syndrome on steroids. This kind of damaged psyche is dangerous to anyone in her zone , she can not be trusted to report crime and do the right thing. Leftism is truly a disabling mental disorder.
She wrote about rape earlier, too. https://avidly.org/2020/10/15/what-doesnt-destroy-you/
Holy beejeezus , I tried to read that screed – it was awful. A whole bunch of puff fluff. That leftist has some serious issues alright.
@Marina
It doesn’t track for me. We have seen these ’empathy scams’ over and over again, there are even Netflix documentaries about some them; my wife and I were even fooled by one of them, as we are international people.
These are people who are not well. I know the signs. If by some miracle her story turned out to be true (and I’d be very surprised) her conclusions themselves still do not bespeak health. Not for her, not for others, not for society. And if she decided to play the trauma card, the cognitive dissonance and self-gaslighting required to accept all the pivots on the part of observers would break the scales.