Thursday, May 7, 2020

Tarana Burke doesn't define the women's movement.

She is currently offering quite a lot of rape apology at Twitter, probably because she's a Hollywood fixture now.






I think that very few people ever define a movement.  However, a single individual can do a lot to destroy it; she's doing that.







Are there people who are still investigating?  My impression is that Vice President Biden's absurd denials have been accepted as truth by a really shocking number of otherwise intelligent people.  I guess they're so used to thinking of themselves as being smarter than everyone else that they think everyone else is too stupid to recognize their blatant hypocrisy, cowardice and greed.  It's probably that and also knowing that they're powerful enough to make the American public accept this unacceptable situation.

I also have to disagree that nobody is winning at a zero-sum game.  Vice President Biden is winning substantially a negative-sum/positive-sum battle against his accuser.

I also think that it's not a coincidence that the supposed momentum for equality gained by Me Too did not include male survivors of sexual harassment and assault.  That would have reduced the malleability of the slogan in service of the greed of already-powerful women.

After all, where would Ms. Burke be without Alyssa Milano, Vice President Biden's good friend?




That's her pinned Tweet, at the time that I'm writing this page.

Some people have called out Ms. Milano for her hypocrisy, but if anyone has challenged Ms. Burke, I haven't heard about it.  That's probably because nobody wants to seem racist or to question a prominent black woman.

If there's a negative perception that could be cast on me that hasn't been already, I don't know what it is, and if people call me racist that won't be any more true than all the other things that they say about me.  Also, having lived up close and personal with black women in homeless shelters for 6 years of the past decade, I can tell you that as a group of human beings they're just like everyone else; good, bad, both, and corruptible in what seem to be the same ratios as the rest of the world.