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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAOC and David Brooks' whining
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The very same week that a Republican man in Congress called his female colleague a "f_____g bitch" in front of reporters, David Brooks writes a NY Times column saying that the problem in America is that people don't feel free enough to say what they think.
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AOC and David Brooks' whining (Original Post)
CousinIT
Jul 2020
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bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)1. Good ol' boy Brooks always comes through, doesn't he?
still_one
(92,394 posts)2. No surprise that Brooks fails to acknowledge harassment
lunatica
(53,410 posts)3. Does he live in this century?
Freedom of speech has been taken to its outermost indecency limits, way past any socially acceptable norms and deep into full blown insanity. For some factions there is nothing to limit their basest utterings.
When Biden is President I expect a Niagara size torrent of never ending bilious profanity from the Right attempting to scream louder.
SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)4. Because he doesn't want to lose
His misogynistic privilege to speak to a woman as he pleases.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)5. Really?
Has he not seen all the Karens and Chads out there?