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Naomi Wolf Doubles Down on her Julian Assange Misrepresentations « Student Activism

Naomi Wolf Doubles Down on her Julian Assange Misrepresentations « Student Activism

Naomi Wolf Doubles Down on her Julian Assange Misrepresentations

Wow. I wasn’t expecting this.

Back on December 7 of last year, erstwhile feminist Naomi Wolf wrote an op-ed for the Huffington post in which she claimed that sexual assault charges lodged against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange were no more than accusations of “consensual sex” with two women who were “upset that he began dating [the] second woman while still being in a relationship with the first.”

This was a gross misrepresentation of what was known about the charges at the time Wolf wrote — as well as a misrepresentation of the sources on which Wolf herself relied in writing her piece. Ten days later, Wolf’s account