Rep. Madison Cawthorn concedes to Chuck Edwards in GOP primary for North Carolina seat
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Rep. Madison Cawthorn conceded his race in the GOP primary for North Carolina's 11th District to opponent Chuck Edwards in a phone call, Cawthorn spokesperson Luke Ball said.

Dude makes up Republican cocaine sex orgies only to accidentally be correct about them, and get shat on by the full force of the Republican establishment in retaliation. Now he can't even name the names, because he wasn't cool enough to get an invite.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    slander on any activists, socialist party members, labor organizers, left polemics, etc.

    No we actually should not sacrifice our principles in order to protect potential abusers. Obviously we should be skeptical of attacks on leftists and activists but what you are implying is how abusers get protected.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Internally in organizations there should absolutely be processes for investigating and disciplining abusive behavior. That’s different than public perception of public figures, and PR campaigns against them

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        And when the policies for disciplining abusers are weak, and the only recourse victims have is outside of that? In a perfect world handling these issues internally as long as they are legitimate sounds great, but in reality if abusers hold positions high up in an organization then that organization's process for rooting them out is never going to be airtight.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        We need to become immune and desensitized to this type of slander

        That isn't what I read into this though. This just reads like circling the wagons at any cost. You could have just said that to begin with instead of saying basically ignore all allegations against supposed leftists.

        • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          We, as in the general leftist public, need to become desensitized to scandalous and slanderous accusations of this nature.

          If there’s a serious accusation of sexual abuse then that should be investigated by the appropriate parties, but that is not the jeering of the vicious crowd that ripped apart Cawthorn. He didn’t abuse anyone to my knowledge right? I’m not fully caught up on what he even did, has an embarrassing video of him humping his cousin and some other cringe things?

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            We, as in the general leftist public

            That's not what you said though and even if I read it as "we here on hexbear" or "we leftists" it doesn't read any differently.

            Cawthorn is a fascist. He deserves to be clowned on.

            • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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              2 years ago

              Cawthorn is a fascist. He deserves to be clowned on.

              True, but he wasn't clowned on for being a fascist, the "controversy" didn't touch on his politics at all, it was because he was acting "gay" and "crossdressing", even the libs got into it and it was pretty gross