Trump mocks Elizabeth Warren’s heritage AND #metoo

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(08-21-2018, 08:22 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 1. Agreed.

2. Because it's a toxic movement that promotes burning people at the state of public opinion before any facts, evidence, or due process has a chance.  It might have started off as something intended to be good, but it quickly and irreparably diverted course. Take a look at Chris Hardwick. His ex wrote an angry open letter accusing him of things, and instantly he was crucified in public opinion, lost his jobs, lost his public appearances, got every mention of him wiped from the site he created... only for an independent investigator to later find zero evidence against him. Damage already done though, he got his show back, but not until he went through a long period of torment and defamation. His career/life won't ever be the same.

A simple accusation gets you automatically fired these days, and there's really nothing you can do to defend yourself against it, true or not.

OK, I can understand that. More than that, I think you're right, it happened here as well. I do not blame the women who came forward for that though. And I'm very much afraid that in the end, all these women are discredited for political purposes, as well as they are used for political purposes, 'cause Americans (and everyone, but especially Americans) make everything political.
It's the conservatives cheering for Argento's misdeed and mocking me too. It's gotten political, though it was always just about society and male misbehaviour, not about conservatives or liberals or anything of that sort.

The women that got molested, groped, raped or extorted deserve better than being ridiculed because politics misused the movement. They deserve better than mockery and schadenfreude. I think this is completely misplaced.
Prejudgment is a different issue, and again I agree with you, it's a real concern. But don't throw the baby out with the bath water. So that every women coming forward is seen as being part of a bad, wrong movement who should just shut up again like in former times. Wrong conclusion, wrong reaction - says me.