Moral Decay

 ^{Left: Cornell students protest for Jane Doe. Right; Democrat Politicians refusing to stand up for Laken Riley}

Last week, a woman, Jane Doe, accused seven former Cornell University students with rape, and the mainstream media cannot stop talking about it. ABC News, CBS News, The New York Times, The New Yorker, CNN, CBC, and many others, have run dozens of stories and articles on these rape allegations. And rightfully so, these are serious allegations at a prestigious university. If you are a national news outlet, you should investigate and report on this story. Former President Barack Obama, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi, Senator Chuck Schumer, have also weighed in on these rape allegations.

In July, British MP Rupert Lowe released a report that alleged that over 250,000 young British girls have been raped by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs over the last 10 years in Great Britain, and most of the Muslim men who committed those rapes have had no criminal consequences. The British government has turned a blind eye to all of those rapes and are willfully allowing their female citizens to be brutalized at the hands of Muslim migrants. None of the media outlets named above, and many others in the mainstream media have reported on these allegations. None. Obama, AOC, Pelosi, Schumer have not said a word about it. They do not care. Nobody cares. Nobody wants to do anything about it. It is just the new normal in European countries – young Christian women will be raped by Muslim men and nothing will be done about it. 

If one girl is raped by American men, our entire country screeches to a halt, but if 250,000 British girls are raped by Muslims, no one gives a damn. Why is that? Women across America are saying, “I am Jane Doe” in response to the Cornell case. It has become the new #metoo movement, but women never said, they are Laken Riley or Iryna Zarurska – young innocent women who were not doing anything wrong – riding on a train or going for a jog – but were brutally murdered by migrants in this country. We were told that is just the new normal in America. There was no collective outrage. No demand that this has to stop.

Why is that? The grooming gang report out of the UK makes my blood boil, likewise, hearing about how that woman was treated that night at Cornell, also makes my blood boil. I don’t understand why we have this divide. It makes no sense. One side completely ignores 250,000 rapes that occurred in the UK by Muslim men, but are completely outraged by one woman who was allegedly raped by seven Americans. Likewise, the other side is completely outraged by the gang rape scandal in the UK, but are making excuses for the behavior of seven American men. Why can’t we have consistency?

I saw a meme on social media with the pictures of seven black young men, and the caption said, ‘if this is what the Cornell seven looked like, the people defending them wouldn’t be defending them’. And there is a lot of truth to that, but you can flip it the other way, if it were seven young black men who committed those acts at Cornell, many of the people who are out for blood, calling it “gang rape”, would be blaming the victim. It is primarily about race. I think back to the Karmelo Anthony and the Austin Metcalf murder trial earlier this year. If the races were reversed, the reactions by the people would be reversed. If a white man stabbed a black man in the chest, many of the people who were defending Karmelo Anthony would be demanding justice, and many of the people who were demanding justice for Austin Metcalf, would be contriving self-defense arguments. Am I the only one who sees this?

Jesus said, "why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?” Jesus was exposing the hypocrisy that’s inherent in all of us. But the biggest hypocrisy of them all is seeing the hypocrisy of others, which everyone has become so adept at, but failing to see our own hypocrisy.  We’re all hypocrites. And essentially, we are all racial hypocrites. Much our hypocrisy is defined by race. If the accused rapist or the accuse murderer is of a certain race, we will defend or ignore the allegations, but if it’s of a different race, we will attack them.

We must identify and root out our own inherent hypocrisy continually. We must be as consistent as we possibly can. The first place that we should start, is aligning ourselves with the vision of Martin Luther King when he said, that people should “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character". Even though, the seven accused in the Cornell case happen to share the same skin color as I do, I am not automatically defending them, I am not automatically trying to devise legal arguments which lets them off the hook. I am judging their actions, not their skin color. And one of the reasons is that I do not want my race to be the race that defends rape, and we can only be that by calling out that bad behavior in our own race, not by knee-jerking defending or ignoring it. Every group has bad people and bad behavior within it, but the group only becomes bad when they defend, excuse or ignore the bad behavior by members of the group.  

The women are defending the woman, just like the women defended Lindsay Clancy. But the strange thing is that many of the women who are standing up for Jane Doe, don’t stand up for women when women are attacked by Muslims or men of color because to them, being called a racist is worse than being raped by a black man or a Muslim, so they make excuses for or ignore the behavior. It all becomes a muddle when we continually factor in the intersectional criteria of race or gender or LGBTQ status before making a judgment on behavior. We should focus solely on the behavior. We should not take into account the race of the accused or the victim. It was either rape or it wasn’t rape. And if it was rape, then those involved should be held to the full account of our justice system.  

I’ve written about this before. What the Cornell Seven did to that woman was wrong. Was it illegal? I don’t know yet. A trial will figure that out. Can we not say this anymore? Whether she consented to what happened that night or not, can’t we all agree that seven men choosing to knowingly have sex with the same woman in one night, is wrong. It is absolutely wrong. I can say it. And I will say it, even though most of the people who did it share my same skin color because I would be saying the exact same thing if it were seven black men or seven Muslims. The laser focus on race and identity in our country is destroying the moral fabric of our society because those factors impede us from agreeing on a common morality.

The only way we prevent our country from devolving into a Third World country, which is where many European countries are already heading, is to not only stand up for the rule of law, but stand up for and reinforce our societal morality. We have to say that what those men did was morally wrong. And we also have to say that what that woman did was morally wrong – drunk, drug use, agree to sex with multiple men. Do we want to devolve into a pure hedonistic society? Maybe we’re already there.

Maybe those of us who are fighting so hard to preserve America – to make America great again – are merely clinging to a picture of America that no longer exists. Although the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the structure of our government are great and necessary, that which made America great was our collective morality. The morality that the people on the far left, and the people who hate our country have been slowly chipping away and chipping away continually over the last 50 years because they know that is what destroys a nation. We are no longer a moral nation when half the country is defending the Cornell Seven, and the other half turns a blind eye to immigrants raping and murdering young girls, when a segment of our society defends a woman who strangled her three children to death, when one of the biggest election year issues is women demanding to protect their right to murder their young babies in the womb because they want consequence-free sex.

All of this is a sign of our collective moral decay which will expose our country to being conquered. If there is not a common collective morality in a country, the country will collapse. The legal framework cannot stand alone; it should support the country’s moral code. If they are two separate entities, they both will be rendered useless. And when there is a moral void in a country, it becomes exposed to a totalitarian takeover – communism and Islamism are waiting for our moral implosion. If we cannot self-govern our moral behavior, then the government or the mob will.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.