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#MeToo Movement Is Person Of The Year, 'Time' Says
NPR ^ | December 6, 2017 | Bill Chappell

Posted on 12/06/2017 5:13:49 AM PST by Zakeet

It has created a wave of awareness and brave confrontations over sexual harassment and assault, taking down powerful men in the process. And now the #MeToo movement has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2017.

On its cover, Time called the movement "The Silence Breakers." Its story features women and men who have spoken out - including activist Tarana Burke, who started the hashtag 10 years ago.

#MeToo had its start as a social media campaign in the wake of high-profile accusations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 3; billisarapists; democratcreeps; democratmolesters; democratrapists; liberalism; metoo; personoftheyear; sexabuse; time; timemagazine; trump
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To: Zakeet

Because the most important thing in society is making statements to feel better about yourself. Doesn’t matter if the statements are true, false, or a real but innocent event years ago being hyped to qualify for the hashtag. Doesn’t matter if there is actionable data (i.e. a name). What matters is the ability to “join a movement” in 142 characters or less. It’s SOOOO much easier to be in a movement now than when Rosa Parks did it.

Some (many?) women were helped by the movement in a variety of ways. And there’s potential for the movement to continue and grow and be significant. But a this point it’s like giving Obama the peace prize for potential. And if history repeats, this movement won’t last longer or have more long-term significance than #BringBackOurGirls.


41 posted on 12/06/2017 6:01:04 AM PST by LostPassword
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To: Zakeet

Time gets to decide which Republicans to defame with this award


42 posted on 12/06/2017 6:01:51 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Yo-Yo

Congrats.


43 posted on 12/06/2017 6:05:07 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Zakeet

#Barfworthy.


44 posted on 12/06/2017 6:09:04 AM PST by gogeo (Leftists are a parasite that destroys the host.)
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To: Zakeet
Nice meme, but fake news. With the exception of Slick Willie, none of those people ever received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients

45 posted on 12/06/2017 6:09:36 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: T-Bone Texan; nwrep

Thanks. I think I threw out my shoulder while patting myself on the back...


46 posted on 12/06/2017 6:12:58 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Zakeet

An eye roll is the best I got for this


47 posted on 12/06/2017 6:14:01 AM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: Zakeet

So he “metoo” hashtag was started 10 years ago? Times is a little late.

Time also named Saddam Hussein as man of the year.

Personally, I think “man” of the year is sexist.


48 posted on 12/06/2017 6:17:12 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Zakeet; All

release the hounds of #MeToo on the plains and wilderness of Twitter.

Been accused of improper behavior years after the fact and assumed guilty? #MeToo

Think it is disgusting the way people use their race or sex to embrace victimhood? #MeToo

Tired of statists who worship at the altar of government? #MeToo

The possibilities are endless.

Time, Inc. owns Sports Illustrated, the garbage periodical that gave failed pretend QB Colin Kaperpunk its version of “Snowflake of the Year” award last night. Even some cult worshiped “singer” who lip syncs her songs gave the award to him. The media swooned.

I guess since Time, Inc. disrespected Kaperpunk on their fake news rag, they had to give him something on its fake sports front.


49 posted on 12/06/2017 6:29:18 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Zakeet

I like the concept of the ‘something’ of the year, but Time needs to quit calling it the Person of the Year.

Several times Time has named a non-person the Person of the Year. It’s no longer a cute thing to do.


50 posted on 12/06/2017 6:29:48 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: circlecity

Dec.10, 2009 - Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - they pass around awards like they redistribute wealth - using them for political and social justice -


51 posted on 12/06/2017 6:38:50 AM PST by All Blue State
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To: alloysteel
Colin Kaepernick has been shamed and dissed AGAIN, lol.
52 posted on 12/06/2017 6:59:29 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: JudyinCanada

Are those merely drawings of women? That one in the back needs to raise the neckline of her blouse before the girls fall out all over Weinstein.


53 posted on 12/06/2017 7:03:25 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: T-Bone Texan

Me Me Me clicked on the #MeToo! to get their names in the headlines. So far, we haven’t seen anyone get convicted of anything.


54 posted on 12/06/2017 7:04:54 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Zakeet

Wow, That Meme is a KEEPER!


55 posted on 12/06/2017 7:07:47 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Zakeet

Called it!


56 posted on 12/06/2017 8:20:50 AM PST by Simon Green
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To: John Milner

Btw the Person of the Year is the most influential newsmaker; it can be positive or negative and can be a group of people, an object, or an idea. Some past winners:

M.L.King
Nixon
Middle Americans (silent majority)
Khomeini
Hitler
The Computer
Stalin
The American Soldier
“You” (mirror on issue cover)
Churchill


57 posted on 12/06/2017 8:23:27 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Zakeet

I’m good with that. It has exposed Liberal Hollywood and the Liberal Media for the horrible hypocrites they are. Terrible people trying to shame the rest of us into living how they see fit.


58 posted on 12/06/2017 8:26:27 AM PST by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: PghBaldy

DJT was still the one person in the world who had the biggest effect upon U.S. and world events and news around the world. If Time was intellectually honest (LMAO, that’s a good one!) they would have chosen DJT again.


59 posted on 12/06/2017 9:14:40 AM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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