#NotMe
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
#metoo is the Twitter hashtag for people who want to join the parade of victims of sexual harassment – women, men, other; everyone can join. And it’s been amazingly effective at bringing down very rich and powerful men in Hollywood, the media and politics.
The same people who celebrate the success of #metoo insist all cultures are equal, but is that really so? Do we believe the female and homosexual sexual harassment victims participating in the #metoo campaign would have had identical success in, say, Iran?
Joe Doakes
Movements like that can’t exist in a place that isn’t fundamentally wired to accept them, convenient or not.
It reminds me of the story Dinesh D’Souza wrote about his high school history teacher in India, who noted that had Mathama Gandhi lived under HItler, rather than the very liberal (by comparison) British colonial system, “he’d have ended up as a lampshade”.
And…Iran? Try Japan, or China.
