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https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/2020-house-primary-richard-neal-alex-morse-massachusetts/index.html
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You're neglecting to mention:
-the New York Times article that also sought to legitimize Mayor Morse's relationships with college students and its headline proclaiming him "vindicated," while two investigations which are still pending were pending.
-the other major media outlets, such as CNN, which followed the New York Times' attempt to intimidate Massachusetts voters by accusing them of being homophobic.
-Mayor Morse's dissembling about a police brutality case in a Jacobin interview.
I have witnessed the mainstream media trying to legitimize sexual misconduct for a decade and counting. College students are easier for you to intimidate into taking the blame for things that aren't their fault than I am.
What's not being discussed, and which should be, are some of the dysfunctional ways that gay culture has developed in historically oppressive and punitive societies. When no relationships are tolerated, dysfunctional relationships are inevitable, and a culture of tolerating and even encouraging dysfunction develops within the oppressed community.
What this situation drew attention to is that a white, gay man who does things he shouldn't do can gain significant traction with the media, the way that white, heterosexual men have always been able to do.
Mayor Morse lost by a lot, probably because there are a lot of colleges and universities in Massachusetts and people who live here are proud of that and want the state to be known as a place where college students are not made unnecessarily vulnerable. Stop trying to bully Massachusetts voters. Also, please leave this particular situation alone, so that Mayor Morse can recover his dignity if he chooses to do so, and so that people who may have felt mistreated by Mayor Morse or who now feel mistreated in retrospect although their behavior was consensual at the time can stop being subjected to a hostile media environment that could intimidate them into silence with respect to the pending investigations.
