It's not so much re-education. It's more that how things turn out to be when this is carefully examined turns out to be very distant from the clichés. We should be asking why our common sense is way off the mark.
There are sound political reasons to offer the complainants against Partey full support. The likelihood, absent any detail, that the allegations against Partey are true. The available details of his case that further signal some of the allegations are true. The bashful police statement that further signals some of the allegations are true. The fact the legal process persistently fails people reporting sexual assault. An understanding of the ways the legal process has already failed in Partey's case.
When you've looked into attempts to measure this problem, when you've got personal experience of it through friends who are survivors, when you've got a mature view of how this kind of dialogue plays out and why you're speaking, when you've got all the information that's ever likely to be available in this specific case, and nothing about that has changed in months … at that point, if you're offering a strong view in line with your premises, you're not jumping the gun.
