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The metoo movement is great and long over due. The Hollywood part of it often feels whiny and yes, some women are self serving amoral aholes...who knew?!? This does not mean that the campaign is unnecessary.
On a similar note. Did you all catch that Rachel Morrison was the first woman EVER to be nominated for best cinematography at the Oscars. That took me by surprise..90 years and not one...
There isn't anything new going on here. In the past, you had small numbers of extremists with stupid takes on things too. The difference between now and then is that now we get exposed to the stupidity via the internet...back then, you only saw that one idiot (or a handful of idiots) in your home town.
When you start seeing a major platform pushing something completely over the top, then you can start talking about anarchy and standing up for what's right.
And that is why many of us are pushing back against the current GOP platform which doesn't seem to have any issue with being closely associated with white supremacists, outspoken misogynists, and pedophiles (e.g. Roy Moore). I could care less that idiots like Alex Jones exists, it's when hundreds of thousands of people think he isn't an idiot and start spouting his nonsense that there is a problem.
And that would be a good thing. But since the mentality of "listen and believe, unquestioningly" that the movement created, way too many people started abusing the movement, and using it not to get justice, but to get ahead, to get fame, money, even plain old revenge. And because of that, it started to do just the opposite. Quite soon, when we will get more and more proof that a lot of these accusations were false, people will get fed up, and stop believing completely. Which will result in ACTUAL victims (not some hollywood whores, who decided to advance their careers by blowing Weinstein) being even more afraid to come forward.
Yes and there is a difference between a movement and people and social stigmas like calling me an SJW. So now you are every bit the hypocrite as the other guy.
It’s not being thick to say I don’t care about social stigmas and the opinions of idiots. This is about sexual assaults and rampant traditionalism that deserves to be taken down. Oh but I know that’s not cool change is hard well suck it up.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
So, they are being executed?
Hyperbole is not a fact, especially when you have to say "You knew what I meant." If you are saying it's a fact, then people are actually being executed for it.
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Some random person does not decide whom I hire and fire in my company.
Employers inevitably make that choice. What you are decrying is market pressure and consumer demand.
How am i a hypocrite? Do you mind using actual arguments this time? I'm telling you the problem here is that innocent people are loosing their jobs - their careeers - their social lives. Like their life is actually getting destroyed. Because a group of haters online are reacting to alleged things and in some cases, like Matt Damon, they are literally reacting to nothing. Like go watch the actual thing. THe only thing he says is that we should destiguish between a pad on the ass and rape.
Their lives are. You knwo what i meant by it and you are trying to come out of a bad situation by discussing semantics.
Some random person does not decide whom I hire and fire in my company.
Employers inevitably make that choice. What you are decrying is market pressure and consumer demand.
This has nothing to do with consumer demand. This has to do with mob mentality. If a group of people wanted you to fire someone because that person said we should destinguish between a pat on the butt and rape. Would you do it?
No it’s not, regardless to completely agree with him and making the same silly point. You and he aren’t anyone’s lawyers. You are complaining about a movement to encourage victims of sexual assault to come forward and saying hold off.
No no holding off and someone gets fired for an allegation that’s a separate issue maybe a social one. But the judgments being made about the accusers is coming from the very ones saying don’t judge the accused. You are your problem.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
Yes you’re telling me a problem your problem not everyone else’s problem. Your problem is with who’s being possibly accused so victims shouldn’t be encouraged to come forward by a movement because you incorrectly make a criminal matter about a social issue.
What company fires someone because of publicity for isn’t a criminal matter. Sexual assault and rape are. Get over it.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis