What does the Rolling Stone rape story debacle tell us about liberalism as the far left practices it? The same thing that the unfounded cries of racism regarding the Ferguson grand jury decision told us and the selling of Obamacare through lies told us and the Benghazi cover-up told us and what the entire Obama presidency and the media's open endorsement of it has been telling us - namely that liberals don't care about facts or reality or objective analysis or even open debate - all they care about is the narrative they want to perpetuate and if it's not actually true or even rationally defensible or just logically coherent in the most basic of ways according to, ya know, facts they don't really give a shit about that. When people who think like this ascend to a power that cannot be effectively challenged and contained and pushed back against by moderating forces that's when you end up with Stalinism and fascism and Maoism and Islamism and people lined up against a wall and shot for not believing what they've been told to believe or for being a threat to the sanctity of the preferred ideology.
Not to suggest America is about to turn into a Stalinist state, but the tendency towards oligarchic fascism underpinning much of the liberal agenda and thinking is pretty evident. For the kind of closed liberal mindset that produced the Rolling Stone story quite possibly the most awful thing in the world is the white heterosexual male who has not been saved by the grace of progressivism and repudiated his privileged status - that was the narrative that needed to be told and if the facts sort of got in the way well who cares because every good zealot knows truth is what you want it to be.