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Spider Jerusalem

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2. "Sexual ASSAULT", not "sexual misconduct".

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 05:29 PM

Sep 2018

It's fucking grotesque the way the US news media refer to "sexual misconduct" when what they're talking about is "sexual assault"; it's just like when they say "racially-charged" instead of "racist". I don't really understand this cowardice and refusal to call things what they are.

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