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TexasTowelie

(116,744 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 08:02 PM Jun 2014

Tell The Washington Post: Fire George Will

The Washington Post actually just published an opinion piece mocking sexual assault survivors and saying that women want to be raped.

The author, conservative columnist George Will, goes so far as to write that colleges are making "victimhood a coveted status" by taking public steps to curb sexual assaults on campus.

He even implies that nonconsensual sex is not rape, when in fact it's the very definition of rape!

Tell The Washington Post that rape is real, and demand that George Will be fired.

George Will makes his living writing columns that many people disagree with. But his latest column has gone too far. Rape is a serious crime—accusing women of making it up and arguing schools shouldn't be addressing sexual assault puts both women and men at risk. By publishing George Will's piece, The Washington Post is amplifying some of the most insidious lies that perpetuate rape culture. It's not just wrong—it's dangerous.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Nita Chaudhary and Shaunna Thomas

This petition was created on MoveOn's online petition site, where anyone can start their own online petitions.

Cross-posted in General Discussion.

ETA: Corrected link at 12:45 p.m. CDT.
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Tell The Washington Post: Fire George Will (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2014 OP
I thought he had died. littlemissmartypants Jun 2014 #1
Done. Thanks. Squinch Jun 2014 #2
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