Isn’t it weird that the head of SKD Knickerbocker, the PR firm that worked with Time’s Up, got a job as a Senior Advisor on Biden’s staff a month after Time’s Up told Tara Reade they couldn’t take her case
Maybe, and I don’t know, but maybe people who immediately jump to twitter to state a strong opinion about an allegation like this that just came out a day ago with very little actual information about it aren’t the voices we should be paying attention to? Especially when determining what society at large believes?
#metoo is about supporting women not being the first to post online whenever someone you don’t like gets accused of something. Everyone turning it into a political weapon are both missing the point and hurting the cause.
The appropriate response is to stfu unless you actually know the accuser and can provide actual support. It’s not to turn the sexual violation of someone into winning internet points seconds after an accusation.
Lol, insanely rich coming from a guy who pushed the Bernie Bro narrative over and over on this board. Now you don’t think that a sample of twitter idiots is representative? Fuck off
I mean — being more fair than you honestly deserve — of course “Believe Women” isn’t some literal doxastic imperative; of course it’s shorthand for “Treat accusations seriously and investigate them in the spirit and to the extent you would wish were you the victim”. Everyone knows that and, to the extent that your post re-iterates that: congratulations, you are once again helpfully correcting a mistake nobody made.
But I don’t think there’s any problem with suggesting that:
Nobody knows anything about this. Anyone expressing an opinion at this point is the problem.
… misses the mark and by quite a bit. Trivially, rapists and abusers and (to some minuscule extent) false accusers are the problem. Less trivially, GTFO, if I have an opinion I’m expressing it, if you think my opinion is unwarranted or unjustified then go ahead and make your case.
Trying to follow this logic: so Time’s Up refused to take the case because they were in the tank for Biden, I assume, and as reward for this the Biden administration… hired the head of a company which Time’s Up had hired at some point? How does that work as a quid pro quo? Were SKD Knickerbocker secretly in charge of which cases Time’s Up took or didn’t take, even though the power relationship involves Time’s Up paying THEM money?
The person you’re talking about here is Anita Dunn, here is her resume:
She worked on the campaign of U.S. Senator John Glenn (D-OH) in 1984,[7] and on Capitol Hill before joining the firm founded by Bob Squier and William Knapp in 1993. She has been the adviser and communications director to Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ),[9] and served as the chief strategist for his presidential campaign.[8][10] Dunn also served as advisor to Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN), former Senate Majority LeaderTom Daschle (D-SD)[11] and as communications director for Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000.[12] In 2004, Anita produced the media for Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX).[13] In 2006 she was hired by then-Senator Barack Obama to direct communications and strategy for his political action committee, The Hopefund. This move signaled to many that Obama was planning to run for the presidency. While advising Hopefund and Obama in 2006, she was instrumental in the preparations for the launch of Obama for America, and brought many key staffers to the Obama campaign with whom she had worked in Bayh’s and Daschle’s offices.[11]
Really doesn’t seem weird to me that the Biden team would hire this person? Like not in need of some sort of conspiracy quid-pro-quo explanation that doesn’t even function, is my point.