November 17, 2017      4:48 PM
Smith: Abuse and Harassment in the Political World
QR’s Liberal Columnist Glenn W. Smith says it’s time to fight sexual abuse and harassment, minute by minute in our daily lives. Politics alone won’t solve it.
Donald Trump bragged on tape about his
sexual abuse of women, and still some sixty-two million Americans ignored his
confession and voted for him anyway. His election devastated many in ways that
go far beyond politics.
Among
the alarmed, the saddened and the disgusted were American women tragically
familiar with abuse. Far more have suffered harassment and abuse than we
collectively admit. For them, this wasn’t just a political loss, though it was
that. It was another form of abuse. Millions of Americans had ignored reports
of sexual harassment and abuse, and in so doing aided and abetted that abuse.
It’s
a struggle to come up with an analogy to help men understand.
The full column by Glenn W. Smith is in the R&D Department.
By Glenn W. Smith
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