Posted on 10/25/2017 9:58:41 AM PDT by Beave Meister
Leon Wieseltier, a prominent editor at The New Republic for three decades who was preparing to unveil a new magazine next week, apologized on Tuesday for “offenses against some of my colleagues in the past” after several women accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate advances.
As those allegations came to light, Laurene Powell Jobs, a leading philanthropist whose for-profit organization, Emerson Collective, was backing Mr. Wieseltier’s endeavor, decided to pull the plug on it.
“Upon receiving information related to past inappropriate workplace conduct, Emerson Collective ended its business relationship with Leon Wieseltier, including a journal planned for publication under his editorial direction,” the organization said in a statement on Tuesday. “The production and distribution of the journal has been suspended.”
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Wow, this avalanche is just getting started.... I think people will need to be very watchful for possible false accusations and personal vendettas, but it will be good if a bunch of the worst predators can be dragged into the sunlight and dealt with now.
It’s funny how most of the pervs are leftists......
Everything old is new again.
This sexual harassment hysteria was a big thing 25 years ago and longer. Michael Douglas and Demi Moore starred in a movie in 1994 called ‘Disclosure’ it was based on a Michael Crichton novel.
Everything was sexual harassment in the late eighties & nineties.
These idiots are lining up to jump on the #MeToo bandwagon.
Screw ‘em.
Who raised these perverts? Ill mannered low class jerks.
Wieseltier and his long time publication, New Republic were basically neocons/neoliberals rather than traditional liberals. I remember him pouring derision on anyone who wanted to reduce immigration or who opposed reflexive military intervention overseas. He was booted from NewRep when more traditional liberals took it over. Good riddance.
He’s also a buffoonish pseudo intellectual.
Actually quite understandable as they have purposely shed moral compasses as they abandoned belief of our creator.
Damn, he is ugly as hell.
Buy ... but ... I thought it was conservatives who were waging war on women.
Now I understand why they hyped this “ME TOO” thing. To attack and destroy as many males as possible, to give them the ability to say that all men are evil predators and all women are frail flowers.
There’s the question; beat me to it, and good for you.
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