This is only the beginning because he is emboldening them. Be ready.

Yeah, this is the testimony that I’d like to see more people focus on. It doesn’t seem at all surprising to me that Taylor Swift came prepared to stand up for herself against cross-examination from the plaintiff’s lawyer. Everything about how she and her team have handled her career to date showed that she would…

Yeah, not a huge fan of her music (and her making #Squad happen, ew), but a huge fan of her attitude during this trial.

Yeah, I really don’t care about Taylor Swift or pop stars in general, but that some rando DJ somewhere thought he could get away with groping an extremely high-profile, successful female musician without consequences just stunned me and reminds me that the attitude persists that all women are fair game, no matter how…

That’s not the information I’ve been given should be our fucking national motto, at this point. Everyone believes what they want to believe and any information to the contrary be damned. It also glosses over how the information you’ve been given might actually be wrong and you being someone who is in a position to…

Oh shit yes,I need the Root to cover this. What is this noise. Damn.

I am betting that “the greeds of the few” will be interpreted as those people of color and women and LBGTQ folks who actually want “special rights” (aka human rights). The “needs of the many” sounds like what white men want.

Oh, no.

Also the clear implication that “people” are white, Christian, and moneyed. Everyone else is sub-human, but we should still be nice to them.

Whaaaat. I have never met a Black person who goes to spiritual healers instead of doctors, or who distrusts doctors because of any reason other than how we are and have been treated. Wtf.

“The parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor.” 1 Corinthians 12:23 When people deal with color, class or culture in a negative way, that’s racism. But the answer is not to ignore these as if they don’t matter. Instead, we can look at color, class and culture in a positive way. That’s…

Of course the Christian right is buying into this crap; they collectively lost their damn minds decades ago and are nothing more than useful idiots for their billionaire overloads now.

And? He also compared it to being struck by lightning; both shocking, both completely random and unannounced.

This is very reasonable? And although he doesn’t state it outright, the car crash and lightening comparisons are apt because just like this circumstance, they’re very RANDOM events.

“It’s such a tricky topic for me because I don’t ever want to minimize how much that happens to women all the fucking time,” he says. “They say one in four women will experience some kind of sexual assault in their life which is fucking insane and heartbreaking. So as painful and surreal and fucked up as my situation…

I can’t quite tell, but the tone of the article seems to suggest that his statements were not okay? I thought it was fine. ?

That...seems okay as far as comparisons go? Maybe even a bit understating it, since this accusation was another person’s willful act and accidents are, well, accidents.

You’ll notice the red (dress), white (skin), and blue (background) that signifies the French flag. France the country that gave us the baguette. Baguettes that get stale after a few hours. Hours, not theirs. They’re trying to steal our country.