COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY SALLY KOHN IN THE
INDEPENDENT
Misogyny is hatred.
Time to start fighting it that way
'Why sexual harassment
should be treated as a hate crime'
A truly dumb piece.
The photo of Weinstein at the top only highlights the author's
light-headedness.
Weinstein, if all the charges are true, is not guilty of
sexual harassment.
He is guilty of serious, violent crimes.
Things like rape, forcible confinement, and uttering threats,
plus a whole lot else.
The author doesn't seem to realize that she is effectively
minimizing serious crimes, treating violent felonies as unpleasant
misdemeanors.
"Hate crime" is a weak and ineffective and
poorly-defined term., a mighty poor substitute for charges of violent crime. It
is in such cases, a truly irrelevant notion.
And harassment in general, as I understand it, is
unpleasant, annoying, and unacceptable, just as any other form of bullying, but
it is not violent crime.
