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After finishing the #TruthToPowerBuddyRead last month, I wondered how she felt about both the Kavanaugh hearings and how she felt about Joe Biden‘s candidacy now....guess that answers one, even for her Trump is a bridge too far.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/anita-hill-joe-biden-voting/index.html

GingerAntics I honestly don‘t understand the people who don‘t think Trump takes things way too far. 5y

Bookwormjillk How was that book? I‘m trying to decide what Non- fiction to read next 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk It was very good, especially if you remember the Thomas-Hill hearings. But I found it very informative for how the political process works too... how sexual harassment became more well known and understood... which for me parallels out to #MeToo now and some weird parallels with the Kavanaugh Hearings. 5y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk Right now, I‘m reading One Person, No Vote which is very good too if you are interested.

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Bookwormjillk @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Thanks! I‘ll add that to my list as well. I do remember the hearings and had a refresher when reading

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk Then you‘ll probably find it very interesting. I think the only one in the reading group who didn‘t like it was someone who didn‘t know about the case at all. 5y

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August Heat | William Fryer Harvey

#AugustWrapUp! I felt like I struggled a bit this month, a lot of longer more thoughtful reads that I needed to take my time with, instead of quick ones that give you that almost instantaneous sense of accomplishment. I missed the fix of going through quickly, but I can‘t say I regret any of the time I took with these either....sooo note to self: slow down enjoy each book, push myself a bit less. 🤷‍♀️

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Last month‘s #NonfictionNerds, I‘m carrying August‘s read over into September. #FellowshipOfTolkien #ShakespeareReadAlong #PratchettPosse #OokBOokClub #TruthToPowerBuddyRead #BBBBC 5y

Singout I'm so glad Silent Spring was required reading in my Grade 13 World Issues course. 5y

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Speaking Truth to Power | Anita Hill

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So good! This story is frustrating and maddening, but I‘m so glad she wrote it. The parallels with the recent Kavanaugh hearings are numerous, and since Thomas & Kavanaugh are now lifelong coworkers, I can only hope that Hill & Ford can at some point talk because only they truly understand the horrible gauntlet we ask citizens to go through, and the fallout that follows for years afterward as their statements become fodder for partisan politics.⤵️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sadly we still haven‘t learned from the past, and neither has the Senate, since they made some of the same mistakes in both cases. I can‘t help but feel that it isn‘t a lack of learning on their part, but a playbook that they now know works to defame any woman who has a complaint in the public and cast the candidate as the victim. Sadly what Hill went through in the Hearings wasn‘t the end, she has dealt with harassment and threats for years ⤵️ 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ... afterward, and double standards because anything associated with her name was suddenly a political issue. Through it all Hill remained poised and matter of fact, persevering through more than I can possibly fathom, and because of her Sexual Harassment laws became more defined, more cases came forward, and employers were held accountable. It wasn‘t what she would have chosen for her life, but I can‘t help but be grateful for that outcome. ⤵️ 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ...Keep Speaking Truth to Power, it‘s hard, and may cost you everything, but after the gauntlet things can change. 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa #TruthToPowerBuddyRead Finishing finally....better late then never. 😉 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa #Nonfiction2020 #AboutTheLawCourt 5y

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Speaking Truth to Power | Anita Hill

“Lack of time” can‘t call them...

I‘m having serious Kavanaugh Deja vu here...more women come forward (can‘t talk to them), and remember when they called in an “expert” to question Ford, but then dropped that for Kavanaugh‘s testimony...it wasn‘t going the way they wanted, and of course...no time!

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Speaking Truth to Power | Anita Hill

OMG! If you thought trolling wasn‘t invented until the internet...wrong!

Seriously, how many of them went on to work in Washington, I wonder? Maybe some became Senators themselves... 🤢🤮

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Speaking Truth to Power | Anita Hill

🙄...well at least with #MeToo I‘m hoping we‘ve moved past the idea that it‘s (only) a class issue, or that black women wouldn‘t be worried about harassment (I don‘t even want to delve into the racism of that idea😑)

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Speaking Truth to Power | Anita Hill

And again, other women come forward with their own stories...but they would never be given a chance to testify.

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GingerAntics And still we learn nothing... because it happened 20 years later. I fear it will happen again in another 20 years. 5y

Texreader @GingerAntics I fear history repeats itself. 🙁 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Texreader This story parallel‘s so much of the Kavanaugh trial it‘s downright eerie! 5y

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Texreader @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Right! 5y

GingerAntics @Texreader @Riveted_Reader_Melissa it really does, mostly because people refuse to learn from past mistakes. 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @GingerAntics Oh I think they learned a lot...they learned how to make women and allegations disappear....that‘s the truly scary part. They learned a playbook for handling these kinds of things. (edited) 5y

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I will absolutely agree with that. You‘re right, they sure did learn that. Somehow, women still haven‘t learned to vote in their best interests. We haven‘t learned to vote out people whose behaviour we find abhorrent. Like we were saying before. A good portion of these guys are STILL in those same positions and pulled the same BS in the Kavanaugh case. 5y

Texreader @GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Hello? Shall we start with the current commander-in-chief? Ewww! 5y

GingerAntics @Texreader 💯 ABSOLUTELY!!! That man is disturbing. He talks like a child molester who victimises his own kids, he brags about sexually harassing women. He never should have been let in that office. Ugh. He‘s just disgusting. 5y

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Speaking Truth to Power | Anita Hill

“The campaign continued with the Republicans taking the position that they had “to win at any cost.” Senator Danforth would admit later that he pursued this strategy with no regard to fairness for me. To suggest that he had no regard to fairness for me also indicates a lack of regard for fairness to the confirmation process itself, as a fair process generally requires fairness to all sides involved.”

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GingerAntics Wow. This could have happened yesterday. 5y

Bookwormjillk I got this book from the library this week after being reminded of this in

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Speaking Truth to Power | Anita Hill

And suddenly he‘s the victim!

Again, sounds very familiar.

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Susanita Cry me a river, Clarence. 5y

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Speaking Truth to Power | Anita Hill

So ironic, as he has since voted against things like the Voting Rights Act, because they aren‘t necessary anymore.... so it obviously didn‘t change his view on things too much. 😕

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GingerAntics It‘s amazing how much he hasn‘t changed. 5y

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