The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary Clinton

Re:The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hilla... by actsasbuffoon on Saturday October 15, 2016 @09:21PM (#12716370)

  > the only way it can refer to sexual assault is if
  > you willfully omit the last part of the quote ("
  > they let you do it.")

There's a difference between consenting and merely not calling the police. If my dog craps on your doorstep and I leave it there, you won't be happy about it. You probably won't stab me or call the police though. That's how I read the "they let you do it" quote.

If I leave dog poop on your doorstep and you don't do anything to me, I could say that you let me do it. That doesn't mean I didn't do anything wrong.

You don't have to call the cops for it to be sexual assault. You don't even have to physically resist. If someone kisses you or touches you in a sexual way without your permission then it's sexual assault. It's that simple.

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Re:The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hilla... by shoehornhands on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:17PM (#12729861)

> There's a difference between consenting and merely not calling the police...That's how I read the "they let you do it" quote.

So yeah...grasping at straws.

> If someone kisses you or touches you in a sexual way without your permission then it's sexual assault. It's that simple.

Which if we take at face value then every single teen boy has committed sexual assault, starting with the "yawn and put your arm around her" move.

As the saying goes, "If everybody's guilty of everything, then nobody's guilty of anything."

But we need to be careful not to conflate two issues here: suppose we even had iron-clad proof that he did it and was unapologetic and planned to do it again next Thursday, there is zero excuse for the press's near-complete silence on the Clinton emails.

I'm not pretending to offer a theory as to why this lack of coverage is occurring - just mentioning it as a data point.

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