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You're Wrong About

Anita Hill

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Mike tells Sarah about the complicated legacy of Anita Hill and the not-particularly-complicated facts of her case. Digressions include “Tootsie," Garrison Keillor and the Donner party. Mike, for reasons unknown, seems to believe that one flies “down” from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Washington, D.C.

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0:00.0

You know the teams that are like, I'm not like one of those regular teams.

0:04.3

I'm insufferable and an adult way. Totally. I was extremely one of those teams.

0:08.8

I think that's why we're doing what we're doing now.

0:20.3

So welcome to You're Wrong About, the podcast where we circle back to people, places, and things

0:26.1

that have been misremembered. I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post.

0:31.3

And I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm a writer for Buzzfeed in the New Republic and also some other places.

0:37.0

And Sarah's joining us for a closet this time. Also with the flu.

0:41.4

Well, I'm just I'm getting over a cold so I hope that I'm at the sweet spot of getting over a cold

0:46.1

where you sound just vaguely like Kathleen Turner. So do you want to tell me what you remember about

0:50.8

Anita Hill and her legacy? Yeah. So when Clarence Thomas was being confirmed, I guess

0:59.6

is the verb is a Supreme Court justice Anita Hill who had previously worked. I believe is the

1:03.9

support and it if him came forward and said I accused him of sexual harassment at the time that

1:08.8

they had worked together. And this became the aspect of his confirmation hearings that

1:14.3

received the most attention. And what I wasn't old enough to notice at the time that feel like

1:19.2

I've observed when I've researched the topic in a background way for other pieces in the past is

1:24.4

that she was really raked over the coals and that people really didn't seem to understand what

1:28.8

sexual harassment was and that it was one of those events that taught Americans what sexual harassment

1:34.8

was but were the person who made that lesson happen had to really suffer because of it.

1:39.9

I mean, I know that he ultimately became a Supreme Court justice but then I don't know what happened

1:44.0

to her life after that. So that's what I feel like I know about it. Yeah, I think the first thing

1:48.9

we should do is there are a number of Anita Hill debunkings on the internet like on YouTube

1:56.4

which has become the cesspool now and a lot of them are of the character of like oh like

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