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question everything

(47,479 posts)
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 11:53 PM Dec 2017

Local columnist comments about Franken

I have no idea if Franken harassed anyone, and neither do you. When numerous women step forward, I tend to believe the alleged perpetrator did something bad to them. But in a time when 30 percent of the population bought into a contrived story that Hillary Clinton ran a sex slave business out of a pizza place, the notion of conspiracy cannot be completely dismissed.

And

Franken’s ability to tap his adolescent self for humor made him famous, but it didn’t play so well in the grown-up world.

So Franken, a keen intellect and rigorous questioner of unqualified Trump appointees is gone, and next week I’m betting that the good folk of Alabama will elect some goober who was widely known to chase teenagers around the mall and quite possibly molested at least one of them.

The body politic shrugs.

These incidents are not even close along the creepy guy scale of transgressions. We have commingled all the stories so that whether you fondle a 14-year-old in her underwear or let your hand drop to someone’s butt while surrounded by opposition researchers with cameras who just happen to miss the moment, you land on the same list.

http://www.startribune.com/tevlin-sexual-harassment-purge-turns-giant-of-senate-into-a-ghost/463061853/

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Local columnist comments about Franken (Original Post) question everything Dec 2017 OP
Often, when I say, good article, or I agree, to this topic, I get alerted on. So, I won't say it. Alice11111 Dec 2017 #1
Why? This a good article. Glad you liked it question everything Dec 2017 #4
Great article dalton99a Dec 2017 #2
Exactly. Unfortunately many are so blinded with revenge in their own OnDoutside Dec 2017 #3

dalton99a

(81,512 posts)
2. Great article
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 11:59 PM
Dec 2017
There is a purge on the great American landscape, for the better and the worse. The question has become not whether we should believe abused and harassed women, but whether we, the media especially, should believe all the women, all the time, with no evidence, and then print accusations anonymously. It is inevitable that one accuser will, some day, be proven to have lied and then no woman will ever be believed again.

OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
3. Exactly. Unfortunately many are so blinded with revenge in their own
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 03:36 AM
Dec 2017

eyes, they miss how witch-hunts like this do damage to the overall movement.

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