I remember there were an awful lot of liberals who didn't seem to have any problem with Bill Clinton's equally vile behavior towards vulnerable women. In fact, I remember there were quite a few prominent feminists who came out and defended Clinton on the grounds that his long history of sexually exploitative behavior should be overlooked because he supported all the right causes.
As another example, there were a lot of prominent Hollywood liberals, including Oprah Winfrey, who were equally willing to overlook Harvey Weinstein's predatory sexual behavior for the same reason and only turned on him when the scandal exploded in the press and he became too much of an embarrassment, at which point we got to watch a breathtakingly cynical round of self-exculpatory virtue signalling by Winfrey and a number of other entertainment industry figures. As another prominent African American celebrity pointed out shortly after her speech at the Golden Globes awards denouncing Weinstein and people like him, it was the willingness of people like Winfrey to look the other way for so many years that allowed Weinstein get with sexually abusive behavior towards so many women for so long.
It is precisely because of blatantly hypocritical double standards like the examples I just gave that so many people tune out the liberal left these days.
Re: question for Michael M. Hughes
Date: 2018-04-24 05:12 am (UTC)As another example, there were a lot of prominent Hollywood liberals, including Oprah Winfrey, who were equally willing to overlook Harvey Weinstein's predatory sexual behavior for the same reason and only turned on him when the scandal exploded in the press and he became too much of an embarrassment, at which point we got to watch a breathtakingly cynical round of self-exculpatory virtue signalling by Winfrey and a number of other entertainment industry figures. As another prominent African American celebrity pointed out shortly after her speech at the Golden Globes awards denouncing Weinstein and people like him, it was the willingness of people like Winfrey to look the other way for so many years that allowed Weinstein get with sexually abusive behavior towards so many women for so long.
It is precisely because of blatantly hypocritical double standards like the examples I just gave that so many people tune out the liberal left these days.