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malaise

(296,834 posts) Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:15 PM Sep 2018

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Anita Hill was treated really badly by all those men including

Joe Biden. It's hard to watch all these years later.

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Anita Hill was treated really badly by all those men including (Original Post) malaise Sep 2018 OP

Yes. As I have said before Evergreen Emerald Sep 2018 #1

Yea because people dont make mistakes from which they learn and grow Fullduplexxx Sep 2018 #10

This was a demeaning, ugly, life changing event for Evergreen Emerald Sep 2018 #14

I feel the same way and have for a long time. vsrazdem Sep 2018 #16

Yes, as I recall, JenniferJuniper Sep 2018 #2

And the best thing that Biden could do now is to explain his actions (or lack thereof.) erronis Sep 2018 #3

He has no excuse for the way he treated Anita and DURHAM D Sep 2018 #17

I will never support him because of it. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2018 #4

Same here. nt DURHAM D Sep 2018 #18

Biden has apologized and has said he is embarrassed madaboutharry Sep 2018 #5

It was a crappy apology and Hill herself wasn't impressed. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2018 #7

That's exactly what I was about to post. drray23 Sep 2018 #6

I Was Watching And Thought...He's Done Me. Sep 2018 #8

It was infuriating. nt BootinUp Sep 2018 #9

It's so upsetting to watch, I can hardly bear to think of Ms Hill *living* it. 50 Shades Of Blue Sep 2018 #11

I was in college RandySF Sep 2018 #12

This was excruciating to watch. I can't believe what they put her through-- Mrs. Overall Sep 2018 #13

I watched the hearing back in 1991 malaise Sep 2018 #15

Evergreen Emerald

(13,096 posts)

1. Yes. As I have said before

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:16 PM

Sep 2018

That is why I will never vote for Joe Biden.

Fullduplexxx

(8,628 posts)

10. Yea because people dont make mistakes from which they learn and grow

Reply to Evergreen Emerald (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:21 PM

Sep 2018

Evergreen Emerald

(13,096 posts)

14. This was a demeaning, ugly, life changing event for

Reply to Fullduplexxx (Reply #10)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:24 PM

Sep 2018

Anita Hill. And those arrogant men treated her with such disrespect.

Yes. People make mistakes. Has he ever apologized and admitted that it was a mistake? And asked Ms. Hill for forgiveness?

vsrazdem

(2,194 posts)

16. I feel the same way and have for a long time.

Reply to Evergreen Emerald (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:31 PM

Sep 2018

I like Joe as a person, but I will never forgive him for his part in this fiasco and will not vote for him (unless of course he is the only choice between him and Trump, then scruples go out the window).

JenniferJuniper

(4,573 posts)

2. Yes, as I recall,

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:17 PM

Sep 2018

Kennedy was the best of a bad bunch, but of course he had to be very careful.

I've never forgiven Biden.

erronis

(24,072 posts)

3. And the best thing that Biden could do now is to explain his actions (or lack thereof.)

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:18 PM

Sep 2018

It smacks of the old-boy network which works to keep non-WASP out of power.

DURHAM D

(33,069 posts)

17. He has no excuse for the way he treated Anita and

Reply to erronis (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:33 PM

Sep 2018

his decision not to put on the other witnesses that would corroborate the facts.

WhiskeyGrinder

(27,074 posts)

4. I will never support him because of it.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:18 PM

Sep 2018

DURHAM D

(33,069 posts)

18. Same here. nt

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:33 PM

Sep 2018

madaboutharry

(42,034 posts)

5. Biden has apologized and has said he is embarrassed

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:18 PM

Sep 2018

by his failing her.

Some people learn and grow as human beings.

Others, like Orrin Hatch, are stuck in time.

WhiskeyGrinder

(27,074 posts)

7. It was a crappy apology and Hill herself wasn't impressed.

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:19 PM

Sep 2018

drray23

(8,804 posts)

6. That's exactly what I was about to post.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:19 PM

Sep 2018

What the hell was wrong with Biden with his line of questions? He was asking for totally unnecessary salacious details making professor Hill uncomfortable and subjecting her family to it. I had never seen it before and had no idea how mysoginistic men were then. Even Democrats. If Biden was that rude, I shudder to think what repubs were back then.

Me.

(35,454 posts)

8. I Was Watching And Thought...He's Done

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:20 PM

Sep 2018

He will never be president

BootinUp

(51,462 posts)

9. It was infuriating. nt

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:21 PM

Sep 2018

50 Shades Of Blue

(11,432 posts)

11. It's so upsetting to watch, I can hardly bear to think of Ms Hill *living* it.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:22 PM

Sep 2018

RandySF

(85,065 posts)

12. I was in college

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:23 PM

Sep 2018

and recall a female classmate just losing it over the senators' treatment of Hill.

Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)

13. This was excruciating to watch. I can't believe what they put her through--

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:23 PM

Sep 2018

I am so angry right now.

malaise

(296,834 posts)

15. I watched the hearing back in 1991

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Reply #13)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 09:26 PM

Sep 2018

And I was pissed then but I had to stop watching tonight. It was unbearable.
What did we do to be so thoroughly disrespected and humiliated?

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