{"id":12528,"date":"2018-09-18T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=12528"},"modified":"2019-12-24T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:44:22","slug":"the-why-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/18\/the-why-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Why of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2407,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thecut.com\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-death-threats.html?utm_medium=s1&amp;utm_source=fb&amp;utm_campaign=nym&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBut why don\u2019t women just say something when it happens? Why not speak up? Why stay silent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2018\/09\/kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-death-threats.html?utm_medium=s1&amp;utm_source=fb&amp;utm_campaign=nym\">This is why<\/a>, you self-centered, short-sighted, unempathetic, thundering idiots.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Christine Blasey Ford was hesitant to come forward with allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh because she feared facing public attacks. \u201cWhy suffer through the annihilation if it\u2019s not going to matter?\u201d she said in an interview with the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>  Her fears were not unfounded. Within hours of revealing her identity, personal attacks were launched against Ford. Some Senators expressed their doubts about the truthfulness of Ford\u2019s statements. Sen. Orrin Hatch asserted that Ford was \u201cmixed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2018\/09\/kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-death-threats.html?utm_medium=s1&amp;utm_source=fb&amp;utm_campaign=nym\">the New York Times is reporting that Ford is being sent death threats<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why not speak up? Why stay silent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}