The new racism

[Kaos]

Forget calling people racist to demean and silence them.

The new gold standard from the left is to fling sexual harassment charges.

Trump.
Oreilly
Now hannity. 

According to the bitch accuser all he did was ask her to come back to his hotel once and make a pass at her another time.

If that's the standard of sexual harassment? Lock my ass up forever. I've harassed hundreds. 

[wesfau2]

If that's the standard of sexual harassment? Lock my ass up forever. I've harassed hundreds.

It is.

You probably have.

So have most of us.

[Kaos]

It is.

You probably have.

So have most of us.

Asking a woman out or gauging her interest is harassment? 

What have you sensi-pussies done to my world?

It's disturbing and horrifying that a man's reputation and career can be destroyed on the basis of some unverifiable claim.  It's apparent to me that the left is attacking Fox News using this shit.

[WiregrassTiger]

Asking a woman out or gauging her interest is harassment? 

What have you sensi-pussies done to my world?

He helped entrap people like you, so that people like him have less competition. And under the guise of liberalism.

He's a snake.

[wesfau2]

Asking a woman out or gauging her interest is harassment? 

What have you sensi-pussies done to my world?

It's disturbing and horrifying that a man's reputation and career can be destroyed on the basis of some unverifiable claim.  It's apparent to me that the left is attacking Fox News using this shit.

It's not the simple ask.

It's the ask in the context of the power dynamic between boss/star and staffer.  The implied threat that the answer of the woman might impact her standing in the organization is sufficient to create a hostile/harassing environment.

But you knew all that.  The old adage about "not dipping your pen in the company ink" predates cable news by quite a few years.

[Kaos]

It's not the simple ask.

It's the ask in the context of the power dynamic between boss/star and staffer.  The implied threat that the answer of the woman might impact her standing in the organization is sufficient to create a hostile/harassing environment.

But you knew all that.  The old adage about "not dipping your pen in the company ink" predates cable news by quite a few years.

Hannity's accuser's ink isn't foxy. 

[AUChizad]

It's not the simple ask.

It's the ask in the context of the power dynamic between boss/star and staffer.  The implied threat that the answer of the woman might impact her standing in the organization is sufficient to create a hostile/harassing environment.

But you knew all that.  The old adage about "not dipping your pen in the company ink" predates cable news by quite a few years.

I don't disagree that O'Reilley may have gone over the line, even habitually. Admittedly, I haven't delved too deep into the allegations.

Here's what I will say on the topic.

1) It troubles me that sexual harrassment is the only crime in America that requires zero due processes to destroy someone's life over. Maybe I'm wrong and his accusers' case(s?) has been proven in court. But I haven't seen it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

2) There is very clearly an element of selective outrage in the media over this. How is what David Letterman did any different? The power dynamic you describe in what I quoted is exactly the same. Not sure if O'Reilley was more explicit in the quid-pro-quo of sexual favors or not, but even if not, the implication is exactly the same with Letterman.

3) I'm growing increasingly tired of people celebrating a celebrity-they-don't-like's demise because of some personal shit unrelated to their public persona. This annoyance is compacted by numbers 1 & 2 above.

[Snaggletiger]

I don't disagree that O'Reilley may have gone over the line, even habitually. Admittedly, I haven't delved too deep into the allegations.

Here's what I will say on the topic.

1) It troubles me that sexual harrassment is the only crime in America that requires zero due processes to destroy someone's life over. Maybe I'm wrong and his accusers' case(s?) has been proven in court. But I haven't seen it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

2) There is very clearly an element of selective outrage in the media over this. How is what David Letterman did any different? The power dynamic you describe in what I quoted is exactly the same. Not sure if O'Reilley was more explicit in the quid-pro-quo of sexual favors or not, but even if not, the implication is exactly the same with Letterman.

3) I'm growing increasingly tired of people celebrating a celebrity-they-don't-like's demise because of some personal shit unrelated to their public persona. This annoyance is compacted by numbers 1 & 2 above.

Agreed on all counts.

[WiregrassTiger]

Agreed on all counts.

Why don't you two get a room?

[Snaggletiger]

Why don't you two get a room?

Are you sexually harassing us? 

[GH2001]

I don't disagree that O'Reilley may have gone over the line, even habitually. Admittedly, I haven't delved too deep into the allegations.

Here's what I will say on the topic.

1) It troubles me that sexual harrassment is the only crime in America that requires zero due processes to destroy someone's life over. Maybe I'm wrong and his accusers' case(s?) has been proven in court. But I haven't seen it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

2) There is very clearly an element of selective outrage in the media over this. How is what David Letterman did any different? The power dynamic you describe in what I quoted is exactly the same. Not sure if O'Reilley was more explicit in the quid-pro-quo of sexual favors or not, but even if not, the implication is exactly the same with Letterman.

3) I'm growing increasingly tired of people celebrating a celebrity-they-don't-like's demise because of some personal shit unrelated to their public persona. This annoyance is compacted by numbers 1 & 2 above.

Home run

[Kaos]

I don't disagree that O'Reilley may have gone over the line, even habitually. Admittedly, I haven't delved too deep into the allegations.

Here's what I will say on the topic.

1) It troubles me that sexual harrassment is the only crime in America that requires zero due processes to destroy someone's life over. Maybe I'm wrong and his accusers' case(s?) has been proven in court. But I haven't seen it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

2) There is very clearly an element of selective outrage in the media over this. How is what David Letterman did any different? The power dynamic you describe in what I quoted is exactly the same. Not sure if O'Reilley was more explicit in the quid-pro-quo of sexual favors or not, but even if not, the implication is exactly the same with Letterman.

3) I'm growing increasingly tired of people celebrating a celebrity-they-don't-like's demise because of some personal shit unrelated to their public persona. This annoyance is compacted by numbers 1 & 2 above.

I'm okay with every bit of this except for the fact that I want Mark Ingram to get so fat and slow he can't get a job at Krispy Kreme and I laughed when Greg McElroy got a concussion.

[CCTAU]

I don't know why we need this new racism. I thought the old racism was working just fine!

[Token]

I don't know why we need this new racism. I thought the old racism was working just fine!

The old racism was never actually racism.  The pre 1970s racism was the real deal.