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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
"The national anthem has two purposes. First is to honour our flag and our country and the second is to pay respect to our troops. Athletes who take a knee during the anthem are out of place because that's not what this time is for, so it's disrespectful."
"The time right after a shooting is no time to discuss gun laws and how those not directly affected in this tragedy are also affected by gun violence. It's an important discussion, but this is clearly not the right time."
By analogy, are these arguments really so different from those offered by GGG and Photon?
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Women harassed by Weinstein, women talk about harassment is talking about gun control after a mass shooting.
The flag one again is a little more interesting but again it more reinforces that the male voices intent is disruption. I think that the athletes protesting during the anthem are intentionally trying to amplify their voices through controversy by showing disrespect to a symbol.
So if your assertion through analogy is that the male voices are being amplified by using the #metoo movement that is what I take issue with. The causes and solutions aren't the same so the male discussion does take away from the female discussion.
And that assumes you think that male sharing is genuine. I know my gut reaction is to defend the gender by saying notallmen and womentoo but that is not productive to the discussion that is taking place.
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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
I’m in no means putting down the message behind this “me too” campaign but when I see some of my women friends on Facebook basically suggesting they are somewhat morally superior to men, I have to laugh as some of them are no better. Saying men Can’t be part of that campaign is pretty ridiculous. Kind of takes away from the campaign in my opinion.
Social media campaigns have a way of doing that though. Start out as something good, but everyone starts making them about themselves and the original message quickly gets left behind
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I don't mean to say you are doing this AO but this post to me is where the reasons for men joining the metoo come from. Women are saying they are morally superior to men so I'm going to show them they are just as bad. And that does not move the conversation forward