>In California, college students are required by law to obtain repeated, vocal permission from their partners for a sexual encounter to be deemed not rape. But

>In California, college students are required by law to obtain repeated, vocal permission from their partners for a sexual encounter to be deemed not rape. But pimps can openly sex traffic minors on city streets in broad daylight, and the police can do little about it. All of these disparate approaches to perceived social problems are regarded as “progressive”. What’s the historical analysis I’m supposed to take with this, dang? This is classic conservative framing, all the way to throwing progressive in scare quotes. Nothing other than generic culture war fodder can be gleaned from this unless you already agree with these absurd premises…