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

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64. They aren't missing the point, they just can't acknowledge it

Because they would have to admit the world is complicated and people aren't saints. It's hard to come to grips with the fact that the world isn't black and white, pure good and pure evil. It's human nature though. We suck at seeing subtlety and nuance.

Look at the responses in the thread. How many are saying oh some of the accusers were Trump supporters so they were obviously lying? And the anonymous ones must be lying too because they are anonymous, completely ignoring that the ones who came forward were attacked and dismissed. As if it's not possible to look at how reprehensibly victims are treated. There's a reason that victims of sexual assault are regularly not named by the press. But because Franken was elevated to hero status, he must be innocent.

John Lennon beat women and mocked disabled people but sang about peace and love. Lyndon Johnson called Martin Luther King Jr a "hypocrite preacher", but he also got the Civil and Voting Rights Acts passed. In 1940, Gandhi declared Hitler to not be as bad as depicted, but was a non-violent leader. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence declaring all men are created equal, but owned and raped slaves. Woodrow Wilson started to predecessor to the United Nations but was a virulent racist. Beloved children's book author Roald Dahl claimed Hitler didn't pick on the Jews for no reason (and that reason wasn't because Hitler was a racist bigot in Dahl's mind). Henry Ford, father of modern industry, anti-Semite.

People are almost never 100% good or evil. We all screw up, we all have our flaws.