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Families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all, too many workers have been subjected to harassment simply for demanding change. Enough is Enough! – Max Arias	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Today’s vote, on International Women’s Day no less, shows a real disconnect between the rhetoric we hear from elected leaders who claim to support victims of workplace sexual harassment and the pass they give to party loyalists in the next breath. It’s disheartening to say the least. – Naomi Seligman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A mischaracterization of an informal workplace that is populated by people with MDs and PhDs who are in their 20s and 30s who are, you know, underpaid and together long hours and it’s just not a viper pit of sexual harassment the way that the Whitehead statement made it sound. – David Sabatini	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Antisemitism has no place on any social media platform that doesn’t want to further the harassment and exclusion of marginalized communities, while Twitter ostensibly has an anti-hate policy that includes antisemitism, it is unclear the degree to which it is being enforced. – Jonathan Greenblatt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was the type of person to peek out the windows and see if there’s a domestic [ incident ] going on, let me call the police to sort it out, nowadays, if I was facing some sort of harassment or something in the street, I would n’t go to a police officer. – Patsy Stevenson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
No one should face harassment or violence due to their background, ethnicity or heritage. – James Wimbush	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Continuing to push this nominee after signing that bill into law is the very definition of tone deafness, unfortunately, the Biden administration is sending a message to victims of sexual harassment in the workplace that they’ll only be believed when politically convenient. – Chuck Grassley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You know, it's ironic and really disturbing that in the last several in the last five years, I've received multiple awards for my work, fighting for and defending human rights, fighting for and defending religious freedom, and now over the past year, the government has threatened me with termination, excluded me from the workforce, discriminated against me and subjected me to harassment, for standing up for those very principles, for human rights and for religious freedom and for the right to bodily autonomy and medical choice. – Marcus Thornton	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Whether you're using fishing boats or civilian drones, it doesn't look as though this is official policy. It doesn't look like direct military harassment in the way that the incursion of a warplane does. And so it's a deniable provocation. – Isabel Hilton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
By showing them that we can organize against this type of online harassment and succeed in doing so, there's going to be a chilling effect on this. – Clara Sorrenti	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you get your own thread on Kiwi Farms it means there are enough people who are interested in engaging in a long-term harassment campaign against you, the first thing that Kiwi Farms users did when my thread opened was find the obituary for my dead father and use it to find his memorialized Facebook page. – Clara Sorrenti	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Boston Children deserve an opportunity to thrive and grow as Boston Children own authentic selves. Parents/guardians and health care providers who support them in that journey should be allowed to do so free of threats and harassment. I want to make it clear that the Department of Justice will ensure equal protection of transgender people under the law. – Rachael Rollins	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Every Democrat who votes for this bill is kicking the middle class in the teeth with massive tax hikes and increased IRS harassment. It will cost them re-election. – Torunn Sinclair	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We're not going to back down to these bullies and harassment, it's unacceptable what they're doing and we're not going to back down. – Corinna Sac	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There have already been calls for parent harassment from fringe, district aligned, leftist parent groups. – Jill Dunican	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We don't know the motivations behind this specific targeting of an Asian American, but we do know how real the problem of anti-AAPI hate is -- not only in violent incidents like these but in the many more public harassment moments where racial and ethnic slurs are shouted at AAPIs just trying to go about their lives. – Manju Kulkarni	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is clear to me that the workplace in Washington was unprofessional and unacceptable in numerous respects. Bullying, widespread disrespect toward colleagues, use of demeaning language, public embarrassment, and harassment. Moreover, for a prolonged period of time, the commanders had a woefully deficient H.R. function, particularly with respect to reporting practices and record-keeping. – Getty Images	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Today it was stunning and disheartening to listen to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell insist that Dan Snyder and the Washington Commanders have been held fully accountable for the team’s two-decades-long sexual harassment of female employees, this, of course, is not true… To be clear, our clients want and deserve a full accounting of Beth Wilkinson’s findings.Until he agrees to release such findings, Mr. Goodell’s purported concern for the employees who suffered through 20 years of harassment and abuse is a sham. – Debra Katz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
All too often our society, criminal legal system, and private institutions fail to hold those who commit sexual harassment, assault, and abuse accountable, whenever sexual harassment and abuse are not taken seriously and handled with impunity, this contributes to the cycle of future harm. – Laura Palumbo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light. – Elon Musk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think [ harassment ] is an issue we have to take seriously in VR, especially if we want it to be a welcoming online space, a diverse online space, even though you see really bad behavior happen in the real world, I think it can become worse online. – Daniel Castro	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Steve Squeri, we see you. We're going to keep coming after you. We're going to be exposing American Express. We're going to be directly attacking your company's reputation, change your policies. Make an announcement. Protect your employees from racialist harassment and abuse in the workplace. And if not, organizations like Color of United … We're going to be going after your brand identity and perception in a relentless way, so you have a final chance to do the right thing, and if not, I think you’re going to see very quickly the reputation of your company going downward in a bad direction. – Christopher Rufo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
With this legislation, we can help fight assault and harassment in maritime transportation through penalties for perpetrators, new requirements for owners, expanded legal recourse for victims, and a myriad of policies to prevent sexual assault and harassment in the first place. – Peter DeFazio	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I have had my experiences with harassment, men flashing me or following me, but I run in honor of Ahmaud and his family as I can not even imagine the horror they went through losing Ahmaud doing a sport that everyone should have the right to do safely. – Sarah Seither	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all, too many workers have been subjected to harassment simply for demanding change. Enough is Enough!

– Max Arias

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today’s vote, on International Women’s Day no less, shows a real disconnect between the rhetoric we hear from elected leaders who claim to support victims of workplace sexual harassment and the pass they give to party loyalists in the next breath. It’s disheartening to say the least.

– Naomi Seligman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A mischaracterization of an informal workplace that is populated by people with MDs and PhDs who are in their 20s and 30s who are, you know, underpaid and together long hours and it’s just not a viper pit of sexual harassment the way that the Whitehead statement made it sound.

– David Sabatini

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Antisemitism has no place on any social media platform that doesn’t want to further the harassment and exclusion of marginalized communities, while Twitter ostensibly has an anti-hate policy that includes antisemitism, it is unclear the degree to which it is being enforced.

– Jonathan Greenblatt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was the type of person to peek out the windows and see if there’s a domestic [ incident ] going on, let me call the police to sort it out, nowadays, if I was facing some sort of harassment or something in the street, I would n’t go to a police officer.

– Patsy Stevenson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No one should face harassment or violence due to their background, ethnicity or heritage.

– James Wimbush

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Continuing to push this nominee after signing that bill into law is the very definition of tone deafness, unfortunately, the Biden administration is sending a message to victims of sexual harassment in the workplace that they’ll only be believed when politically convenient.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You know, it's ironic and really disturbing that in the last several in the last five years, I've received multiple awards for my work, fighting for and defending human rights, fighting for and defending religious freedom, and now over the past year, the government has threatened me with termination, excluded me from the workforce, discriminated against me and subjected me to harassment, for standing up for those very principles, for human rights and for religious freedom and for the right to bodily autonomy and medical choice.

– Marcus Thornton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Whether you're using fishing boats or civilian drones, it doesn't look as though this is official policy. It doesn't look like direct military harassment in the way that the incursion of a warplane does. And so it's a deniable provocation.

– Isabel Hilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By showing them that we can organize against this type of online harassment and succeed in doing so, there's going to be a chilling effect on this.

– Clara Sorrenti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you get your own thread on Kiwi Farms it means there are enough people who are interested in engaging in a long-term harassment campaign against you, the first thing that Kiwi Farms users did when my thread opened was find the obituary for my dead father and use it to find his memorialized Facebook page.

– Clara Sorrenti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Boston Children deserve an opportunity to thrive and grow as Boston Children own authentic selves. Parents/guardians and health care providers who support them in that journey should be allowed to do so free of threats and harassment. I want to make it clear that the Department of Justice will ensure equal protection of transgender people under the law.

– Rachael Rollins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every Democrat who votes for this bill is kicking the middle class in the teeth with massive tax hikes and increased IRS harassment. It will cost them re-election.

– Torunn Sinclair

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're not going to back down to these bullies and harassment, it's unacceptable what they're doing and we're not going to back down.

– Corinna Sac

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There have already been calls for parent harassment from fringe, district aligned, leftist parent groups.

– Jill Dunican

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We don't know the motivations behind this specific targeting of an Asian American, but we do know how real the problem of anti-AAPI hate is -- not only in violent incidents like these but in the many more public harassment moments where racial and ethnic slurs are shouted at AAPIs just trying to go about their lives.

– Manju Kulkarni

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is clear to me that the workplace in Washington was unprofessional and unacceptable in numerous respects. Bullying, widespread disrespect toward colleagues, use of demeaning language, public embarrassment, and harassment. Moreover, for a prolonged period of time, the commanders had a woefully deficient H.R. function, particularly with respect to reporting practices and record-keeping.

– Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today it was stunning and disheartening to listen to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell insist that Dan Snyder and the Washington Commanders have been held fully accountable for the team’s two-decades-long sexual harassment of female employees, this, of course, is not true… To be clear, our clients want and deserve a full accounting of Beth Wilkinson’s findings.Until he agrees to release such findings, Mr. Goodell’s purported concern for the employees who suffered through 20 years of harassment and abuse is a sham.

– Debra Katz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

All too often our society, criminal legal system, and private institutions fail to hold those who commit sexual harassment, assault, and abuse accountable, whenever sexual harassment and abuse are not taken seriously and handled with impunity, this contributes to the cycle of future harm.

– Laura Palumbo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light.

– Elon Musk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think [ harassment ] is an issue we have to take seriously in VR, especially if we want it to be a welcoming online space, a diverse online space, even though you see really bad behavior happen in the real world, I think it can become worse online.

– Daniel Castro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Steve Squeri, we see you. We're going to keep coming after you. We're going to be exposing American Express. We're going to be directly attacking your company's reputation, change your policies. Make an announcement. Protect your employees from racialist harassment and abuse in the workplace. And if not, organizations like Color of United … We're going to be going after your brand identity and perception in a relentless way, so you have a final chance to do the right thing, and if not, I think you’re going to see very quickly the reputation of your company going downward in a bad direction.

– Christopher Rufo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With this legislation, we can help fight assault and harassment in maritime transportation through penalties for perpetrators, new requirements for owners, expanded legal recourse for victims, and a myriad of policies to prevent sexual assault and harassment in the first place.

– Peter DeFazio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have had my experiences with harassment, men flashing me or following me, but I run in honor of Ahmaud and his family as I can not even imagine the horror they went through losing Ahmaud doing a sport that everyone should have the right to do safely.

– Sarah Seither

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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