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In reply to the discussion: Here's a list of people Tara Reade has accused of assault or harassment. [View all]MasonDreams
(756 posts)67. Abuse by the father creates a vulnerability that invites predators.
No one knows if it's true. Noone knows if it's false. Especially those of us who supported Hitler's removal from office, and now ache to see trump out of power.
I don't know what course others may take, or should take. I don't know period.
All I know is true or false, it won't be her fault. Until they find it to be a malicious conspiracy and even then, it won't be her fault.
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Here's a list of people Tara Reade has accused of assault or harassment. [View all]
Drunken Irishman
Apr 2020
OP
Clearly you are not a white person who has spent significant time in enterprises located
ChiTownDenny
Apr 2020
#60
I do not see a parallel between an employer/employee relationship and exchanges at a grocery store
live love laugh
Apr 2020
#66
I've been "discriminated" against by PoC. But I got it. I've seen PoC discriminated against ...
marble falls
Apr 2020
#83
Claiming discrimination from an 8 hour day voluntarily signed on for trivializes "discrimination"
marble falls
Apr 2020
#92
Black people face discrimination all through their life: there's no clocking out from it ...
marble falls
Apr 2020
#109
We're all in it together. Most people will do the right thing if given a chance. Just a chance ...
marble falls
Apr 2020
#105
Black "discrimination" against whites does even rate. It shouldn't even be mentioned at all ...
marble falls
May 2020
#134
"They seemed to think it was a game." Something no PoC ever said and that is the difference.
marble falls
May 2020
#140
"Assaulted" to him may have been a Black person yelled at him, called him a name maybe, and
Blue_true
Apr 2020
#112
Yeah, that was what I noticed. She claims it was in a Senate hallway, of all places. nt
Blue_true
Apr 2020
#106
Rape and sexual abuse are not things the victim brings on by "irresistible perfume"
Ms. Toad
Apr 2020
#25
Sorry, but I don't view linking victim behavior with allegations of rape or sexual assaul as a joke.
Ms. Toad
Apr 2020
#118
Any link to this? This is bad for her ... really bad and I'm disgusted at Hayes for his piece if thi
uponit7771
Apr 2020
#8
The one thing I remember reading her neighbor (the one the press is talking about)
Peacetrain
Apr 2020
#24
Lost in all this discussion is the fact that at the time Biden supposedly "raped" her....
George II
Apr 2020
#30
I think most women have dealt with sexual harassment at one time or another.
appleannie1
Apr 2020
#32
It's not unusual for incarcerated parents to have incarcerated children.
live love laugh
Apr 2020
#72
Whatever she is a "victim" of, it isn't the Dem candidate for president. Her story is a hit job...
Hekate
Apr 2020
#61
Damaging the Democrat with smears, combined with suppressing the vote
SuprstitionAintthWay
Apr 2020
#90
This is so over the top. Almost as if she was being paid to write laudatory things about Putin.
octoberlib
Apr 2020
#71
A THIRD POSSIBILITY - sometimes people with history of early abuse recreate the same/similar abuse
Kashkakat v.2.0
Apr 2020
#59