1991 Anita Hill Cartoon - Quite Relevant Today

[kpete]

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[Ohiogal]

1. Is that Orrin Hatch on the right?!

Ugh. The stench never goes away, does it?

[yardwork]

2. Yep.

[genxlib]

3. Kick for exposure

Brutal and true

[UpInArms]

4. Kallaugher has always been spot on

Thank you for posting

[bdamomma]

5. Isn't that the truth.

the ole boys club better watch out like the saying beware of a woman scorned.

[betsuni]

6. K&R

[Gothmog]

7. Great cartoon

[FSogol]

8. Everyone needs to see this. K & R. n/t

[Hortensis]

9. The cartoonist obviously thinks it's still spot on,

as it is.

[dlk]

10. What We are Learning is that if Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes

American women still have far to go in the quest for equality.

[DesertRat]

11. Not much has changed in 27 years

[czarjak]

12. And use that Bush connection?

[Nitram]

13. Wow! That is a powerful statement. And here we go again.

[loyalsister]

14. That is where me too should have started

And I think the men who piled on were trying to protect themselves. As we now know devaluing and even assaulting women does not instantly disqualify someone from candidacy in the minds of millions of voters.

[steventh]

15. They won't get away with their crap this time

strength me too movement
minority members of today's Senate Judiciary Committee
Dianne Feinstein, California, Ranking Member
Patrick Leahy, Vermont
Dick Durbin, Illinois
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
Chris Coons, Delaware
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut
Mazie Hirono, Hawaii
Cory Booker, New Jersey
Kamala Harris, California

[Paladin]

16. Brilliant. Let's see how far we can re-circulate this classic. (nt)

[ConstanceCee]

17. I Remember Those Hearings

I watched the hearings. This is exactly the way she was treated. They demanded that to explain her case, she use graphic language that she didn't want to use. I believed her so much at the time. I want this to be re-opened and for a real hearing to be heard. There were more witnesses than were allowed to testify.

[FakeNoose]

18. So right!

I also remember that Joe Biden didn't do Anita any favors. He just sort of piled on with the rest of the privileged white guys. I believe he has acknowledged and apologized for it, but that doesn't get Clarence Thomas off the bench, does it?

[BannonsLiver]

22. And three years later he wrote the VAWA bill

I get that Biden hate is en vogue here in some circles, but I think it's important to judge people from the big picture view. Joe's done a lot of positive things in his career. Also, I can't help but note Biden isn't pictured in the cartoon. If he was as much of a monster as some here make him out to be, you'd think it would show up more in the media from that time.

[m-lekktor]

20. So do I. That is when I first formed an opinion of Joe Biden. nt

[mountain grammy]

19. Enough, Enough, Enough..

should be a million American women in the streets..

[Solly Mack]

21. K&R

[Power 2 the People]

23. I'm still so disgusted by what they did to Anita Hill

She showed so much poise and class despite it all. Not only was a good,truthful woman unjustly discredited but we got a monster like Clarence Thomas as a result.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

30. Does anyone remember WHO Clarence Thomas was replacing ?

Thurgood Marshall, that's who. It was an affront I have never accepted.

Justice Marshall was a giant among men. Thomas ? Not fit to wipe the bottom of Marshall's shoes, let alone EVER fill them.

[Power 2 the People]

31. That makes it even worse

I didn't realize that. Wow. What a disgrace.

[Bayard]

24. Whoa......

Good ones.

[Spartacus101]

25. And what shall we say...

...about Uncle Thomas, "The Sphinx of the Supremes"?

What a waste of space that guy is.

[warmfeet]

26. Just thugs being thugs. NT

[AdamGG]

27. I still remember Orrin Hatch frantically waving a copy of the Exorcist in the hearings

Because the book has a passage about pubic hair on a coke can, so he claimed that that proved that Anita Hill got that story there and was making the whole thing up. Of course, Clarence Thomas could have gotten the idea from the Exorcist just as easily and Hatch had no point at all. I think that was some of the most shameless grandstanding I have ever seen.

[zentrum]

28. Shame, shame, shame

...on these powerful thugs.

[Cha]

29. Exactly!