Society => Politics: Left, Right, and Center => Topic started by: Built To Last on October 13, 2014, 04:25:16 pm
Title: WI Gov's Campaign Abortion Ad Features Domestic Abuser
Post by: Built To Last on October 13, 2014, 04:25:16 pm
Do you remember Ray Rice? Remember how he was vilified by the media when a video emerged of him beating up his girlfriend? Remember how he ended up losing his job in the NFL because of this incident?
We were told by the media that this is the proper way of handing domestic abuse---as long as the abuser is a black male. But what if the domestic abuser is a white female?
Straight out of the Wisconsin Governor's race, a video from Democrat candidate Mary Burke which features Democrat activist and convicted domestic abuser Erin Forrest criticizing current governor Scott Walker for his stance on abortion:
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Why would Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke choose someone once charged with domestic abuse to star in her latest campaign ad?
Featured in Burke's 15-second abortion spot is Erin Forrest, a Democrat active in the party. She has been the Jefferson County Democratic Party chairwoman since at least 2011 and led the recall efforts against GOP Gov. Scott Walker in her county.
But in 2013, Forrest — who then went by the name Erin Sievert — was charged with two misdemeanor counts of domestic abuse, the first for battery and the second for disorderly conduct, for a scuffle she had with her then-husband.
Title: Re: WI Gov's Campaign Abortion Ad Features Domestic Abuser
Post by: MoaningLisa on October 13, 2014, 04:32:53 pm
every "Erin" I've ever met has been batshit crazy..
I agree on the double standard, it just doesn't get handled the same, but this sounds like one political party picking on some obscure move by the other...nothing to do with abuse or abortion.
Title: Re: WI Gov's Campaign Abortion Ad Features Domestic Abuser
Post by: Juicebox on October 13, 2014, 04:40:58 pm
Lesbians
Also, not everything is about race
Title: Re: WI Gov's Campaign Abortion Ad Features Domestic Abuser
Post by: LOVE on October 14, 2014, 07:49:02 am
It's an unfortunate state of reality. I feel as if we've got to this place through the inaction of those who are afflicted with the growing social apathy allowed by a new age landed, and those who are too worried about ramification if they stand up and be labeled misogynist, anti-semite, or what have you by those fucking agenda driven bastards who push for this nonsense. The type that get butthurt over the *human* *right* to freedom of thought*, and try to sue.
Freedom of speech, on the other hand is slowly being eroded by ever more authoritarian governemnts and the previously mentioned type of people who would sell everyone's souls if it brought them some petty level of vindication to something they feel slighted over.
This is the age of cowards.Cowards who pussyfoot around and pander to the uptight busybodies who take offence and create such a state which is nothing more than a dynamo of outrage, unto itself and of itself it keeps going on and on. Cowards who do nothing to stop corporations and corrupted big brother government from giving up all the big push in the backside down the slippery slope, because now in this age to want immediate satsifaction at this point in the ride it benefits them in some small way, and nobody gives a fuck about where we're ultimately headed.
Title: Re: WI Gov's Campaign Abortion Ad Features Domestic Abuser
Post by: Prometheus on October 14, 2014, 12:54:11 pm
While I'm not as eloquent as Love, I'll just say this; Just because someone is a bad person, or did a bad thing, doesn't make everything they say invalid. Ad hominim attacks seem to be a staple of the republican strategy.