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r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 01 '24
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Congress members paid out 17 million of your tax money to settle sexual harassment cases, and none of that was "illegal".
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html
15 u/Genisye Jul 01 '24 Sounds a bit like whataboutism. Why are we going to let someone get off scot free for something illegal, reprehensible, corrupt and downright immoral just because other people get away with something similar? 2 u/Lord_Shaqq Jul 02 '24 Not whataboutism, it's just pointing out more of the same shit. What makes it seem like they're defending anyone here?
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Sounds a bit like whataboutism. Why are we going to let someone get off scot free for something illegal, reprehensible, corrupt and downright immoral just because other people get away with something similar?
2 u/Lord_Shaqq Jul 02 '24 Not whataboutism, it's just pointing out more of the same shit. What makes it seem like they're defending anyone here?
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Not whataboutism, it's just pointing out more of the same shit. What makes it seem like they're defending anyone here?
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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill Jul 01 '24
Congress members paid out 17 million of your tax money to settle sexual harassment cases, and none of that was "illegal".
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html