Wow, no. Is this view that social justice is just a way to justify racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry?
There are actually very few parts of social justice asking for special privileges. More often than not, they’re asking for a lack of special treatment. Like, the right to sleep on a bus without getting arrested, like white, cisgendered, middle class people can. Or, the right to walk down a street (even with a condom or two in their pocket!) without getting arrested for streetwalking. Or, the right to not have the color of their skin be a factor in if they get shot. Or, the right to not be sent to jail when a white person committing the exact same crime would get community service. Or, the right to not be abused in their home. Or, the right to not be raped. Or, the right to get justice when they are raped, when they are shot, when they are abused.
Among these special considerations is the assumption that a woman’s accusation of rape is prima facie evidence of the fact. No. No, no, no, no, no. Seriously, I hang out in social justice circles, especially of the rape variety, all the time, and I know extremely few people who think this. There’s a difference between, my accusation should be enough for the police to investigate, and they should do it without blaming me, and my word about being raped should count just as much as a mugging victim’s word about being mugged, and, my accusation should be the only thing needed in a court of law for a jury to be beyond a reasonable doubt. Yes, occasionally, false accusations happen – at the same rate as all other crimes. Of those false accusations, a few will invariably end in convictions. But when rapes are more likely to not be reported than reported, when 97% of those rapes reported fail to result in the rapist being locked up for even a single day, let’s be real: to think that false accusations of rape are a bigger problem than actually being raped is just straight up misogynistic.