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Allegation against Biden prompts reexamination of “Believe women”
The Washington Post ^ | May 2, 2020 | Annie Linskey and Sean Sulliven

Posted on 05/03/2020 10:39:43 AM PDT by KingofZion

Joe Biden, discussing sexual assault claims in early 2018, told PBS flatly, “Women should be believed.” On Friday, facing his own accusations, he stressed on MSNBC the importance of “taking the woman’s claims seriously when she steps forward — and then vet it, look into it.”

That shift in Biden’s tone reflects the way a former staffer’s claim that he assaulted her 27 years ago is raising new questions for the #MeToo movement. Democrats and women’s activists, eager to unseat a president they consider deeply misogynistic, are facing tough decisions over whether to stick by Biden or distance themselves — and whether to redefine what emerged as a stark rallying cry after centuries of injustice: “Believe women.”

Among those publicly wrestling with such issues is Alyssa Milano, an actress, #MeToo activist and Biden supporter. “How do progressive women choose between the p---y grabber in chief who has done so much damage to our country and a man who has allegations made against him?” Milano wrote in Deadline, which covers Hollywood and entertainment.

She added, “Believing women was never about ‘Believe all women no matter what they say,’ it was about changing the culture of NOT believing women by default.”

Some longtime women’s rights activists warn that downplaying former staffer Tara Reade’s claims could undermine the movement’s credibility by suggesting it only targets men whose policies it dislikes.

“I think that this could potentially signal the end of MeToo,” said Michele Dauber, a Stanford University law professor who heads the Enough is Enough Voter Project and has called for an investigation. “The failure to investigate, and the failure to live by our principles, will become silencing.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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Can you spell hypocrites?
1 posted on 05/03/2020 10:39:43 AM PDT by KingofZion
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Believe all women... unless they are “nuts and sluts.”


2 posted on 05/03/2020 10:41:17 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: KingofZion

Democrats are corrupt evil scum.


3 posted on 05/03/2020 10:42:10 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: KingofZion

She added, “Believing women was never about ‘Believe all women no matter what they say,’ it was about changing the culture of NOT believing women by default.”

The entire time she spent saying that was time she could have spent making a sandwich for a man or tending to her children.


4 posted on 05/03/2020 10:43:55 AM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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To: KingofZion

As usual, it all comes down to whose ox is being gored.


5 posted on 05/03/2020 10:44:50 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: KingofZion

I don’t expect anything to change. The “Flip a Switch” philosophy has served the socialists quite well and for a long time. Why would they change it?


6 posted on 05/03/2020 10:49:11 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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That shift in Biden’s tone reflects the way a former staffer’s claim that he assaulted her 27 years ago is raising new questions for the #MeToo movement.

The claim is not he "assaulted" her, but that he RAPED her. She is claiming vaginal penetration. That is rape.

7 posted on 05/03/2020 10:49:17 AM PDT by Petrosius
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Allegation against Biden prompts reexamination of “Believe women”
Annie Linskey

She'd better change her name to Alinskey given that she can talk out of both sides of her mouth at the same time.
Even Pravda under Stalin would find it really hard to compete with the Washington Post when it comes to rewriting history, fakery and mental gymnastics to justify the unjustifiable.

8 posted on 05/03/2020 10:49:59 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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They don’t call him Joe “Fingers” Biden for nothing.


9 posted on 05/03/2020 10:51:20 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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This post-Kavanaugh hypocrisy didn't start with Biden, it started with Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax.

Democrats couldn't oust Fairfax because a Republican was next in line to assume the office, so Fairfax's accuser Vanessa Tyson was ignored, then minimized, by the MSM, too.

-PJ

10 posted on 05/03/2020 10:56:33 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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Believe all women, as long as it’s republicans they’re accusing.


11 posted on 05/03/2020 10:56:39 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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Always recalibrate the perpetual outrage when it’s hurting one of the globalist left’s chosen elitists.


12 posted on 05/03/2020 10:57:08 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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“Reexamine”? There must be three mutually exclusive alternatives:
1. Believe All Women
2. Believe Some Women
3. Believe No Women

They aren’t going to like the logical outcome of this and those three alternatives.


13 posted on 05/03/2020 10:57:45 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Democrats and women’s activists, eager to unseat a president they consider deeply misogynistic

Only because they are illiterate and/or dishonest.

14 posted on 05/03/2020 11:01:24 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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Believe all women

The belief that women never lie could only be held by people who have never actually dealt with women.

15 posted on 05/03/2020 11:03:21 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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The belief that women never lie could only be held by people who have never actually dealt with women.

Women will be the first to admit, they know they lie like hell, especially to each other.

16 posted on 05/03/2020 11:04:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Some longtime women’s rights activists warn that downplaying former staffer Tara Reade’s claims could undermine the movement’s credibility by suggesting proving it only targets men whose policies it dislikes.
17 posted on 05/03/2020 11:05:11 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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Dude. Bill Clinton. 1990s. Nothing new

He set the liberal standards

Rape ? Ok abusing 20 year olds in Oval Office. ? Fine

Lying under oath about it ? Sure fine. He’s a D and likes abortion


18 posted on 05/03/2020 11:19:01 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: KingofZion

Biden went through this early in the primaries and it died. Round 2 will die also.


19 posted on 05/03/2020 11:21:49 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ("As government expands, liberty contracts." -Ronald Reagan)
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Well, liberal ladies, it's time to dig 'em out of the back of the closet, dust 'em off and get ready.

Hope you didn't throw them away. You knew you were gonna need them again someday.

20 posted on 05/03/2020 11:26:23 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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