Van Jones just slammed Trump for his "locker room talk" excuse

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19. Yes and those guys he was talking to are part of the problem.

They tacitly accept this talk, instead of condemning it.

There are a lot of men denouncing what Trump has said and rightfully so. But how many of those men also blame rape victims for their own rapes? How many support the Jameis Winstons of this world? How many choose to believe the athlete instead of his victim? And how many turn around and visit porn sites which depict the very assaults Trump was talking about, and which are exploitative in their very nature.

How many of us (men and women) have done these things? How many of us have stood by while a colleague, say, has sexually harassed someone else and have not reported it?

All of these things are part of the problem. I get that there is a social cost to speaking out, but this is how rape culture is perpetuated.