Turning American jurisprudence on its head we have another case, along with the gun ban, that shows how the Democrats don’t trust anyone – including themselves. Mandatory Harassment Awareness Training. More like Collective Guilt. The vast majority of the #MeToo violators have been Democrats. Go ahead and show me 5 Conservatives in Hollywood, journalism, or corporate CEOs swept up in this nonsense.
So why aren’t more of the NH State Reps steamed over this?
The House also voted 284-92 to require every lawmaker to undergo sexual harassment awareness training. The change was unanimously recommended by the Rules Committee.
You are ALL pigs, PIGS I say!
Well, not me, but the Democrats and a bunch of self-loathing Republicans who voted for this. Those who can’t stand the heat of being seen as opposing the narrative of “being branded guilty” without evidence. I guess that goes along with the “spinelessness.” A rather serious disease that cycles around the Right far too often.
It’s what happens when someone says “I’m not guilty! I have never behaved in such a manner. And I don’t report to you like some jr. high hall monitor reporting back in with the vice-principal.”
Those like me who disagree need a bumper sticker that says, “I’m with Him!”
Hollis Republican Jim Belanger argued against the measure.
“I was elected by my constituents, not the Rules Committee,” he said. “Is there a need for training? Maybe so. I won’t dispute that. But should it be mandatory? Absolutely not. I will probably attend the training, but vote against the mandatory rule.”
If I was an elected House Rep, I’d do the latter (negative vote) and deep-six the former (never attend the training).
Is it heresy in these politically correct HR/#MeToo times to even say that? You betcha. But I refuse to be labeled as guilty, or possibly guilty, especially by someone or some group.
I felt that way when it was mandated, as part of my job and at the risk of losing my job, to have to go through an online class. Given that I worked from home for almost 20 years, how would I have been accused of such while “on the job?” My “home office” was on the West Coast. I live on the East. Go figure.
You got a problem – go after the guys (and gals) causing the trouble in the first place and leave me (figuratively and literally speaking) alone.
This, in my mind, is the same as the “diversity” training that goes on, especially on college campuses. It has become a grievance industry in its own right (a la the Reverends Al and Jesse to mention just two off the top of my head). In a lot of cases, these “classes” end up as nothing less than Progressive SJW indoctrination (ya think I have a low view of these folks?).
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen (in the beginning, the #MeToo movement absolutely outed completely guilty violators – good on it for doing so in creating the preference cascade reaction). But in this age of #MeToo and microaggressions, almost anything can be labeled as some kind of harassment. It’s like a deep sea long liner – it catches what it’s supposed to but also a lot of “bycatch” as collateral damage (e.g., fish species it wasn’t after). That’s how I felt during that class – bycatch.
I was declared guilty thousands of miles away. In a one-person office – me. So should many of those Reps with this “decree” of being guilty and to heck with any evidence.
How does that work versus due process?
I reported to a boss – these are elected officials who don’t answer to anyone OTHER than their voters — two VERY different situations.
I didn’t expect this post to go this way or end up this way, but this is what sometimes happens – it just comes out.
Oh, speaking of that serious disease of the “go along to get along-ers”, we have ya remedy right here that will help to stand up to the Democrat leadership (in this and almost anything else):
(H/T: Union Leader)