Example: Michelle Goldberg says Franken should resign for "optics" reasons -- i.e. political reasons. Not because it would be a just outcome. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/al-franken-sexual-harassment.html …
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I think it's also being used as a distraction to prevent stories like killing the middle class with tax bills and pipeline leaks that are poisoning the water from being told.
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It’s crushing. It should be taken seriously whenever it comes out & it likely does intersect politics. But it’s cynical when the plaintive concerns become a tool or eclipsed by political outlooks. I felt a bit gaslighted, unable to speak of it, last spring by such weaponization.
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Er, not last spring. The primary, HRC campaign, rather.
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You're more balanced than many reporters, but I still can't help but wonder if you would say the same thing in quite the same way if this were another Republican under fire, instead of "our guy". This in itself makes it seem like political calculation.
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I think one issue with every perpetrator coming out in this era will be lost in the crowd and escape their due individual recognition...
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Is going to become?
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Sexual misconduct in private corporations [and in the public sector institutions] will continue unless there's much more *power* equality for decision making factors-persons. Hierarchy must be somewhat less vertical. Redistribute authority.
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It already is
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And like GOP tax plans, it will not trickle down to us little people...& we do not have millions$ or.vacation homes to confort ourselves with. How can we bring
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politics is the original rape culture
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You actually said that. Right out loud.
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Wow, well said !
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Your on the ball Michael. Observing events with a motivation towards the discovery of reality as opposed to the furtherance of your own predetermined version of said events
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Welcome to third-world, multicultural, politics. Expect there to be fist fights on the Senate floor in a few years here.
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