Remember that part of Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention where he recalled his having been falsely accused of sexual assault by Tara Reade, and acknowledged the error of his long-standing support for the Title IX sex police on campus dedicated to denying male students of the opportunity to defend themselves, to have at least minimal due process when accused of heinous offense, now that he, himself, had suffered the same and survived it because he enjoyed the opportunity to challenge his accuser?

No, of course you don’t, because it didn’t happen.

To most Biden supporters, this is an easy issue to shrug off. After all, he’s running against Darth Cheeto, so Biden could sniff the hair of little girls on Fifth Avenue and still enjoy their undying support. Anyone is better than Trump, and any issue with Biden is trivial compared with the only important goal, to oust Trump from the White House. And indeed, it’s the only compelling reason to vote for Biden, that he’s not Trump.

Maureen Dowd dedicates her column to Biden, and goes on at length about Joe Biden’s “decency.” Oddly, it’s almost entirely about Trump’s indecency, until the very end, where she gets to an anecdote about Uncle Joe that doesn’t involve him touching women (which isn’t sexual, but just that he’s a non-consensual touchy kind of guy).

In one of the most moving convention scenes ever, Brayden, a 13-year-old from New Hampshire, courageously and charmingly talked about how Joe Biden, who has had a lifelong struggle with stuttering, tried to help him with his own stutter. (As opposed to Trump’s denigration of the disabled.)

Mister Rogers, he of the neighborhood, always said that the worst type of human beings were the ones who made you feel “less than.” That is Donald Trump’s m.o. Brayden made the case for Biden being the opposite, someone who tries to make you feel “more than.”

The teenager said that Biden “told me about a book of poems by Yeats he would read out loud to practice.” He concluded that he was supporting Biden because “we need the world to feel better.”

It’s a sweet anecdote, and I’ve no reason to doubt that Biden is a decent human being, or that Trump is a vulgar, amoral, lying ignoramus. But what will happen to Brayden, now 13, when he goes to college and some woman claims a day, week or years later that she was raped by him because she was drunk when she jumped his bones? Well, he’ll probably have Uncle Joe’s phone number in his pocket, so he’ll get special dispensation, unlike every other male college student.

This isn’t about voting for Darth Cheeto because Biden is bad on this issue. It’s about Biden being bad on this issue, and not being so blindly supportive of Biden (or, to be really honest, hating Trump so much that you would vote for a lump of coal just to get Trump out) that you refuse to criticize Biden, refuse to recognize that he’s dangerously wrong on this issue, refuse to acknowledge that for all Biden’s empathy toward Brayden, he shows none toward innocent male college students who get, as the Tenth Circuit called it, “railroaded” in campus sex tribunals.

The new Title IX rules are now in effect, two courts have thrown out efforts to enjoin their being effective on August 14th. They will not be the panacea the unwashed expect them to be, and some schools have already figured out a way to circumvent them, which will spawn the next generation of litigation that will take years to come to fruition.

But Biden promises to feel the “survivors” pain, to undo the new rules even if he can’t make the myriad court decisions holding the procedures to be in violation of Title IX and the Constitution go away. He says so.

The Trump Administration has rolled back important protections for student survivors by rescinding the Obama-Biden Administration’s 2011 Title IX guidance. Any backstepping on Title IX is unacceptable. The Biden Administration will restore the Title IX guidance for colleges, including the 2011 Dear Colleague letter, which outlined for schools how to fairly conduct Title IX proceedings.

Of course, he can’t quite do this, as the new rules are rules under the Administrative Procedures Act, whereas the 2011 Dear Colleague Letter was a scheme in the fertile mind of some bureaucrats who seized the opportunity to “reimagine” the sexual revolution where the men necessarily ended up on the guillotine. But what he can do, while “dismantling” the new rules, is direct his Departments of Justice and Education to both ignore violations of law and perhaps even support and encourage colleges to violate the Constitution for the sake of “survivors.” I suspect colleges will be all too happy to comply.

You can vote for Biden, or more realistically, vote against Trump, and still condemn his position on Title IX. You can condemn actual rape and sexual assault and still support a fair hearing for the accused, affording him with due process and an opportunity to challenge heinous accusations. You can hate Trump so very much that you would vote against him even if you believed that the likelihood of Kamala Harris becoming president was high and nobody who knew anything about Harris wanted her to be president.

Trump famously said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his supporters wouldn’t care. If you feel the same way about Joe Biden, or worse, Kamala Harris, then you’re no better than Trump’s supporters, even though you will have a million excuses for being as mindlessly supportive because Biden’s not Trump.

And he’s not Trump. Joe Biden is not Donald Trump. And Joe Biden is terribly wrong and utterly hypocritical on this issue. Just because you plan to vote for him doesn’t change that. Just because Biden’s not being Trump is far more important to you than the lives of innocent young men doesn’t change that. But Biden is still wrong, and if you refuse to see it, to acknowledge it, then you’re wrong too.