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ConservativeDemocrat

(2,720 posts) Mon Nov 10, 2014, 03:07 PM Nov 2014

What street harassment ACTUALLY looks like

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What street harassment ACTUALLY looks like (Original Post) ConservativeDemocrat Nov 2014 OP

I would agree with everything she said about cops, but using it to dismiss harrassment is disgusting Bjorn Against Nov 2014 #1

^^^This^^^ Ineeda Nov 2014 #3

It's not an argument. It's a fallacy of the "not as bad as" type. alp227 Nov 2014 #2

Bjorn Against

(12,041 posts)

1. I would agree with everything she said about cops, but using it to dismiss harrassment is disgusting

Reply to ConservativeDemocrat (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 03:24 PM

Nov 2014

We can be opposed to police brutality and sexual harrassment at the same time,
the attempt to dismiss the sexual harrassment of women because cops also harrass is ridiculous.

Why do you capitalize the word "actually" in your subject line, are you suggesting that people who are the victims of street harrassment are not actually being harrassed?

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)

3. ^^^This^^^

Reply to Bjorn Against (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 07:01 PM

Nov 2014

Women may not be bloodied by street harassment, but they can be terrified (as in terrorized.) And even if they are just annoyed, why does anyone have that right? The OP and the young woman in the video are simply wrong. One thing is horribly bad and the other is just bad.

alp227

(32,065 posts)

2. It's not an argument. It's a fallacy of the "not as bad as" type.

Reply to ConservativeDemocrat (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 04:31 PM

Nov 2014

with the flawed mentality that all political issues exist in a zero-sum bubble.

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