re: #Metoo-ism is going to get out of control and needs to be shut down

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When you have to attach that many "what-ifs" to your argument then your argument is probably pretty weak.

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i think this is a common use case

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In a timely manner, yes. I'll still be skeptical of childhood memories 40 years later

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Not when it is about a family member.

My brother was molested by our uncle and he didn't say anything for about 10 years and then it was only the immediate family that knew about it. Until last year he wrote a book about life stories and addressed it in his book.

My brother and I are 18 months apart and were best friends growing up and he never once mentioned it to me. I didn't know about it until I walked into my grandmothers house and saw everyone crying and I asked what was going on. My brother decided he couldn't keep it a secret any longer.

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Not when it is about a family member.

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I'll always be skeptical of childhood memories decades after the fact because they've been proven to be unreliable.

Everyone should read up next the McMartin Preschool Trial which I vividly remember the hysteria.

It deals with false memory syndrome. Many of these kids are in adulthood still believing the stuff that was planted in their minds. The hysteria (what we're experiencing to too) was incredible

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Buddy, you nailed it right there. The “victimhood” of America. Looking for the pity party and the money that might come with it.

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to YOU... again, it's not up to YOU, the non-victim, to decide for the "victim" to decide their time to speak up, whenever that might be....

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Society should not find it acceptable to come forward with completely unsupportable allegations that are ruinous to a person 40 years after the fact.

That people can't see the OBVIOUS problem with having such a stupid construct is amazing to me.

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look, it sucks, having to rehash and basically relive the events, when you actually do come forward and tell your story....

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They need to grow the frick up or be treated like children.

I'm tired of them wanting both.

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i honestly think that the hollywood stuff played a much larger role in these women's ability to speak about what happened, and that it's either not at all or has very little to do with politics....

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Can you at least acknowledge that the environment right now has almost certainly yielded a LOT of bull shite allegations in the piling on?

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but as a person who has actually lived a similar scenario, that's the way i see it...

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I know people who have been raped.

I also know people who have been falsely accused.

I sympathize with the fact that rape/assault/misconduct is damned hard to prove.

But we CANNOT let that sympathy create an environment where all standards are gone and you can just ruin a person at your convenience.

THAT is GUARANTEED to result in a LOT of bull shite.

Which. Paradoxically, damages those who REALLY were harmed.

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It's another byproduct of the social media-victimhood complex that has taken over modern society.

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No. I think this was all planned to be a huge cultural revolution with Hillary in the White House. They lost, but they're running it anyway.

The ringleader of the initial scandal and wave of accusations was Ashley Judd, shrieking banshee of the "women's march." That alone should be a huge red flag.

A lot of leftists have long claimed that women should be in charge of everything (I know your views on this lol). Matriarchal socialism is what they want. This campaign was designed to put all men on eggshells, letting women do whatever they want in the workplace and elsewhere for fear of this kind of thing.

The Clintons are the ones who smeared the landscape with political correctness. This just seems like another Alinskyite social scam.