How to Become a Dangerous Person

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🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

How do you become “dangerous”? Writer and Portland-based podcaster Nancy Rommelmann would have thought she was the last person to answer that question — until she publicly dared to raise some questions about the #MeToo movement. Then her life suddenly changed and she became public enemy number one. She tells her astonishing story — what happened and why — in this compelling video.

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0:00.0	You are looking at a dangerous person.
0:02.2	You may feel unsafe, even threatened by my very existence.
0:06.5	What is this power I possess?
0:09.1	It's called free speech.
0:11.1	While I knew it was always there,
0:12.5	I recently discovered its true value.
0:15.0	Here's my story.
0:16.4	It could easily be yours.
0:18.7	I'm a journalist and author and a podcaster.
0:21.4	I live in Portland, Oregon.
0:23.2	My husband owns a few local coffee shops
0:25.0	and a small coffee-wasting business, called Restreter Wasters.
0:28.5	In December 2018, I started a YouTube podcast
0:31.8	entitled, Hashtag Me Neither.
0:34.5	The shows about page reads,
0:36.4	Me neither is an almost weekly conversation
0:38.6	about the cultural issues of the day
0:40.5	and an attempt to create a space
0:42.4	where people can find ways to think out loud
0:44.6	through uncomfortable topics.
0:46.8	One of those topics is the Me Too movement
0:49.4	and what I see as some of his excesses,
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