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MeToo leader launches new hashtag to mobilize voters
AP ^ | 10/15/19 | ERRIN HAINES

Posted on 10/15/2019 10:13:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The founder of #MeToo is using the second anniversary of the movement to launch a new effort intended to mobilize voters heading into the 2020 election.

The new hashtag #MeTooVoter was unveiled Tuesday, on the same day as the fourth Democratic presidential debate and reflects a frustration among activists that issues of sexual violence and harassment have largely been absent from the debate stage and campaign trail.

“You can’t have 12 million people respond to a hashtag in this country and they not be constituents, taxpayers, and voters,” #MeToo founder Tarana Burke said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We need these candidates to see us as a power base. So many people engage with survivors from a place of pity.”

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It was on the one-year anniversary of when #MeToo became a viral hashtag that Burke was still reeling from the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh , whose nomination hearing focused largely on allegations of sexual assault when he was a teenager.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brettkavanaugh; metoo; sexualassault
#metoo was about Hollywood and liberal media personalities sexually abusing women.

Now it's about Brentt Kavanaugh.

1 posted on 10/15/2019 10:13:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

#YouShutUpFor20YearsWhenHarveyWeinsteinAndBillClintonWereRapingWomenAndCheeredHillarySmearingTheVictimsAndCronyMillionairesBuyingTheirSilenceWhySpeakOutNow?


2 posted on 10/15/2019 10:21:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: yesthatjallen
Nothing like turning out the masses for voting like a hash tag, eh?
That will get them to the polls
3 posted on 10/15/2019 10:29:49 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: a fool in paradise
How about: #fahq No? 👏😁
4 posted on 10/15/2019 10:31:12 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: yesthatjallen

“...#MeToo founder Tarana Burke..”

#MeToo am an arschloch Tarana Burke.


5 posted on 10/15/2019 10:38:05 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Karma_Sherab

Be careful, the #HashTag Army is the largest army in the world and you don’t want to mess with them...


6 posted on 10/15/2019 10:38:51 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Elections have consequences. get over it, we won! ~ Barack Obama)
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To: yesthatjallen

It should be about creepy Joe Biden.


7 posted on 10/15/2019 10:39:03 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

#MeToo has done more damage to womankind than anything else. It is now only a political tool.


8 posted on 10/15/2019 12:07:50 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: yesthatjallen
"issues of sexual violence and harassment have largely been absent from the debate stage and campaign trail."

Somebody's not paying attention.

9 posted on 10/15/2019 3:24:32 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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