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In reply to the discussion: The Clinton Reckoning Is One of the Most Essential #MeToo Revelations Yet [View all]R B Garr
(16,954 posts)So talk about not passing the laugh-test excuse. Since you bring up posters here -- most of the posters maligning Hillary are the same folks, so it works both ways.
I didn't offer the MeToo hashtag as an excuse. The article itself uses the MeToo hashtag to tie Hillary in with Weinstein and his "luring" women, and make it sound like this was a huge conspiracy and huge character reveal about Hillary, when in reality, it wasn't. It was an incident that happened in a fluid campaign environment where a woman dared to make her campaign front and center and didn't act like a den mother with a shuttle van to deliver employees where they preferred. It certainly isn't about sexual harassment if it's not about how a man's campaign handled the same incident without a peep from those so concerned about Hillary.
What's highly inappropriate is to say this is about sexual harassment when it really is just an excuse to malign Hillary some more. You are trying to denigrate the woman's entire career and public life and beliefs just because of some decision about one employee on one campaign TEN years ago. It was a decision in the moment, the man was disciplined. There was no long-term employment that was compromised. Neither Bernie's campaign nor Hillary's is about Sharia Law or anything else you mentioned.