It's not that MAGA doesn't believe E. Jean Carroll — they just don't care that Trump abuses women - eviltoast
  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    This is a common problem all over the place. We don’t care what people we like do, and it’s not limited to Trump/Republicans.

    R Kelly was a known pedophile for years, and still a celebrated musician until he finally went to jail. Ray Lewis killed a guy, but was on the Raven’s sideline as an honored guest and former player. Ellen Degeneres fostered a toxic work environment for year while hosting a popular talk show. Weinstein raped women for years while being a celebrated producer. Chris Brown has been beating women for years and still had success after many high profile incidents.

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      9 months ago

      Chris Brown is wild to me. Many other cases are circumstantial-but-damning-because-frequency for a long time. Brown beat the fuck out of Rhianna, there’s police reports and photos of her in the public domain, and yet he still has a public celebrity that isn’t the “Chris Brown global apology tour”

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      9 months ago

      I feel like Ellen caught a stray here, I’m not sure being a mean boss is equivalent to what Weinstein did.

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        9 months ago

        I wasn’t trying to make an equivalent list, but she does feel out of place, but she did have a decade long talk show while being toxic behind the scenes. Chevy Chase was a known asshole before he left snl in comparison.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t know much about it her particular case but have had mean bosses (like one guy thought it would be funny to drug me with something, no idea what, when I asked for an advil - it was in a different country, he told me that’s why it looked different; another would scream at grown men until they cried). I have known lots of people whose lives were terrorized at work by monsters who knew they needed the job and had to take it. It’s not ok.