RE: Al Franken is latest to be accused of sexual assault
November 26, 2017 at 6:52 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2017 at 6:54 pm by henryp.)
(November 26, 2017 at 6:24 pm)Mermaid Wrote:(November 26, 2017 at 6:05 pm)wallym Wrote: Franken/Takei certainly took the wind out of the sails of this little movement. Same as everything else. When it costs people nothing, they are happy to take a flamethrower to everything. But once there is a slight cost, all of a sudden, people want to take a breath, and reexamine. The social media crowd doesn't like Louis CK or Hollywood execs. So fuck 'em all! Year of the lady! Abusers must pay!
Franken and Takei get fingered, and cue the hemming and hawing and rationalizing and so on. And now that they've made the offensiveness of the actions political/subjective, it gives all future people cover, and who wants to come out and name a name when they know it's not going to amount to anything. It's such a typically american string of events.
It's not a partisan issue.
It shouldn't be a partisan issue. But the driving force for this stuff is young white democrats. They're the ones who write the think pieces and retweet the posts, and share stuff on facebook, and read the CNN articles, etc..
They essentially set the agenda. And when they all balked at calling for Franken's head when there was a photo of him grabbing some lady's tits, it was over. It's now like everything else. We want to hang your guys, and make excuses for our guy. Something that shouldn't be partisan is officially partisan.
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They did the same thing with Black lives matter. It was all about BLM, but then the Clinton campaign decided to go another way at the convention, and Michelle gave the "America is the best!" speech, and young white democrats echoed the "America is the best" message. And it was the end of BLM's time in the spotlight.
I don't think that demographic realizes how much power they wield. Or maybe they do, but are just too stupid/irresponsible to weild it wisely.
