Free to Be You and #MeToo

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The #MeToo movement is flushing out clear-cut cases of sexual harassment and assault, but is it helping us judge cases that are far murkier? Erin Gloria Ryan, senior editor for the Daily Beast, wonders whether people will separate into two camps: those who think accusers should be listened to, regardless of consequences, and those who think the accused should be punished, regardless of evidence. In the Spiel, is this really the lowest point in U.S. history? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following content is explicit.
0:06.6	It's Friday, November 3rd, 2017, from Slated's Digest, I'm Mike Pesca.
0:11.4	In the wake of the Manhattan terrorist truck attack, Donald Trump, you know him,
0:15.7	Donald Trump, President, launched an attack of his own.
0:18.2	I am today starting the process of terminating the Diversary Lottery Program.
0:26.8	I'm going to ask Congress to immediately initiate work to get rid of this program.
0:35.3	Diversary and Diversity Lottery.
0:40.0	It does sound a little nicer when you don't pronounce it Diversary.
0:44.1	Twice, Diversary.
0:46.1	Said it once.
0:47.2	Didn't think anything was wrong.
0:48.2	Said it again.
0:48.8	What is that divesting in a nursery?
0:50.7	Both Trump weighing in on Bob Bergdahl and Donna Brazill's Hillary Clinton revelation.
0:56.2	And the time he was blessedly mum for 11 minutes, maybe we forgot about this.
1:01.4	This is called to end the Diversity Lottery.
1:04.7	And that's okay.
1:05.8	We can forget it because he will forget it.
1:08.3	In August, he unveiled his immigration policy.
1:12.3	The Ray's Act reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act.
1:17.2	He held a press conference.
1:18.8	He endorsed the bill and that bill would indeed scrap the Diversity or Diversary Program.
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