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Time’s Person of the Year is ‘The Silence Breakers’ of #MeToo Movement
NBC News ^ | December 6, 2017 | Erik Ortiz

Posted on 12/06/2017 5:04:12 AM PST by be-baw

"The Silence Breakers" of the #MeToo movement, who gave a voice to sexual assault and harassment survivors — and showed them that they are not alone — is Time's 2017 Person of the Year, the magazine revealed exclusively Wednesday morning on "Today."

While the concept of #MeToo was started years ago by activist Tarana Burke, its use became part of the national conversation in October after celebrities on social media used it to share their own sexual abuse stories in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The wave of stories prompted people from all walks of life to add their voice to the movement.

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No surprise here...
1 posted on 12/06/2017 5:04:12 AM PST by be-baw
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To: be-baw

Certainly turned Hollywood and Washington upside down.


2 posted on 12/06/2017 5:07:13 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: be-baw

“National conversation”? You mean the ignorant media-driven fad that brought hysterics out of hiding to reveal that some male had touched her back or her butt?
The one that was supposed to bring down Trump, but hasn’t?


3 posted on 12/06/2017 5:08:18 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: be-baw

Hypocrites without guts. How about Juanita Broaderick for Person Of The Year?


4 posted on 12/06/2017 5:08:40 AM PST by EnquiringMind
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To: be-baw

So, they are honoring Paula Jones and Kathleen Wiley, and Juanita Broaddrick and such.


5 posted on 12/06/2017 5:08:56 AM PST by jimfree (My17 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: be-baw

Hollywood’s stars of 1997 and dedenders of Hillary Clinton’s nuts & sluts campaign against the women who spoke out.


6 posted on 12/06/2017 5:08:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: be-baw

Harvey et. al. deserve to burn in hell.

But this is all a precursor to bringing whordes (misspelled on purpose) of women next year to speak out against what Trump did to them (in other words, lies)

And YES, MANY liberal icons being destroyed is WORTH the price to them to take down Trump.

Problem for the left is, nobody really gives a ####.

Well, they do, when it comes to sick rapist, child molesting animals.

Trump ain’t those things. Not even close.

But some women coming out about how Trump pinched their butts?

Americans won’t care.

They’re too interested in an economy that’s about to take off to the moon


7 posted on 12/06/2017 5:09:26 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: be-baw

I wish this magazine and its cover subject would just zip it.


8 posted on 12/06/2017 5:10:13 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: be-baw

I wonder if any comments will be coming from Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton or even Monica Lewinsky?


9 posted on 12/06/2017 5:10:45 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: be-baw

How many public school students remained silent?


10 posted on 12/06/2017 5:10:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: be-baw

Pfft!

11 posted on 12/06/2017 5:11:07 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: be-baw

Meh. At least I CAN see the logic.

This thing is going to eat through this nation for months to come now.


12 posted on 12/06/2017 5:11:26 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: be-baw

Time magazine ... useless as ever.


13 posted on 12/06/2017 5:13:26 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: be-baw

Should it not be Ronan Farrow since he is the one that has been working on this story for years to expose this?


14 posted on 12/06/2017 5:14:08 AM PST by baxtelf
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To: be-baw

Has Time noticed that these sexual predators are overwhelmingly Democrat?


15 posted on 12/06/2017 5:14:32 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: be-baw

Pardon me but who the hell buys Time magazine anymore? Just dentists now? Talk about garbage.


16 posted on 12/06/2017 5:17:33 AM PST by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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To: be-baw

If this is the issue they want to highlight, it would be better to have the MOTY be Harvey Weinstein.

For good or ill, right?

It was Weinstein who got this ball rolling.


17 posted on 12/06/2017 5:41:00 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: be-baw

mmhmm - 200 years ago they would’ve had the Salem girls on the cover for how brave they were for coming out and exposing the witches.

Stupid and insipid.


18 posted on 12/06/2017 5:41:43 AM PST by Skywise
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To: EnquiringMind

Show me a liberal and I’ll show you a hypocrite.
Most of our women nowadays are liberal.
They harp on sexual advances, but wet themselves reading 50 Shades of Grey.


19 posted on 12/06/2017 5:43:27 AM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Haiku Guy

Or as another suggested, Ronan Farrow.


20 posted on 12/06/2017 5:43:51 AM PST by Kiss7
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