So, your slavery example corroborates what the others in the discussion are accusing the WaPo author of. Slavery was legally just, but socially unjust. Thus "

So, your slavery example corroborates what the others in the discussion are accusing the WaPo author of. Slavery was legally just, but socially unjust. Thus "we changed the laws, but the cultural change had to happen first." The WaPo author's position is "doubting the accounts of rape victims is legally just, but socially unjust". Do you see where this is going?