An uncomfortable number of people here missing the point of #metoo and people like Al Franken

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6. I don't think those who defend Franken are missing a damned thing.

This was an ugly and irresponsible use of #METOO to drive out a prominent Senator on the sketchiest of accusations with no due process whatsoever. Those exploiting the situation relied on the fact that Franken was not a narcissistic, sociopath, but rather a man with integrity who did not want to embarrass the party, his family, or the people of Minnesota with a drawn out investigative process and thus readily responded to the demands that he resign from those in his party who believed it would somehow render the party immunized. Those who led the charge readily admitted they did not believe they needed to see a difference between the severity, magnitude, nor credibility of the accusers charges for these situations and were content to lump the mild with the most abhorrent and severe.

In the end, it hurt the #METOO movement and for that there are quite a few of our own, I will NOT forget nor forgive sans some admission that they had "learned" from this travesty.