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Demovictory9

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Thu Aug 19, 2021, 09:14 PM Aug 2021

Larry elders.hateful remarks about women are unearthed

He talked smack nonstop
.with glee..now he has to answer for it





https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/politics/kfile-ca-recall-larry-elder-on-women/index.html
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"When you look at all these women that have marched -- something like 2 million women -- Donald Trump has probably gotten more obese woman off the couch and in the streets, working out, than Michelle Obama did in eight years," he said on an episode reviewed by CNN.

He even has challenged mainstream orthodoxy on subjects like violence against women.

In the early 2000s, Elder maintained a page on his personal website on "women and domestic violence statistics," citing three articles that alleged a narrative that violence against women was exaggerated for political gain of feminists. One of the articles cited by Elder claimed the Violence Against Women Act, which was signed into law in 1994, was passed with the goal of "redistributing power from the ruling class (men) to the oppressed class (women)." Another asked, "Why does our culture refuse to hold women as well as men accountable for their participation in domestic violence?"

In his books, Elder endorsed pregnancy discrimination, according to a report from Media Matters, suggesting that working mothers aren't "dedicated" and available for an "all-hands-on-deck commitment" to work

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Larry elders.hateful remarks about women are unearthed (Original Post) Demovictory9 Aug 2021 OP
This idiot is an asshole LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #1
What a fucking pig. CrackityJones75 Aug 2021 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2021 #3
ahem, Elder is running for Gov of CA ZonkerHarris Aug 2021 #4
Holy shit I shouldn't be drinking like this on a Thursday. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2021 #5
don't worry, we're all drinking and smoking ZonkerHarris Aug 2021 #6

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