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In Which the President of the US Proudly Endorses an Accused Child Molester for the US Senate: "Go Get 'Em, Roy!"

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Bass Reeves12/04/2017 7:29:19 pm PST

re: #439 allegro

I don’t know exactly what Seder tweeted that was the stated reason for him being fired. However, if Seder wrote it, he is the only one responsible for that. It was in public with his name on it. As we say here so often, no one is due a platform and MSNBC has the right to give or deny as they choose.

THIS is what I was worried about with the sudden zero tolerance and the demands that any infraction of what are now new standards (for today anyway, I don’t expect it to last) of behavior and speech without any sense of proportion. How many discussions of exactly this have we had here of late? It bites both ways and we know how well and quickly the right can weaponize and organize.

Yes, Seder joked about it, Moore did it. These things are not the same. Of course they aren’t yet how many on the left make them equivalent every damned day with demands that our own guys resign on a whiff of what we are *today* calling misbehavior? I’ve heard rape jokes all my life. We all have. Now we have grown more sensitive to them but it’s been a real recent development that started on the left with recognition that cavalier jokes about rape perpetuates rape culture. We know the right doesn’t share this attitude but they sure know how to weaponize it and hoist us on our own purity petard.

I get what you are trying to say, but fundamental comparison doesn’t match up. Seder wasn’t joking about pedophilia, he was mocking people being apologists for a pedophile. He wasn’t perpetuating anything. So basically Moore is getting endorsed for a behavior that Seder got fired for condemning.