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Een heerlijk lang artikel van The Intercept:
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In my fifteen years in New York City, I have lived on the Upper West and Upper East Sides; on Roosevelt Island and throughout South Brooklyn. I have worked above and below 14th St and in the South Bronx, spent regular evenings in Harlem, nights in Queens, and taken every combination of trains, at all hours of the day and night. I have done so without major incident or great fear for my safety. I have also been lucky.
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Then, last week, the group Hollaback, which is trying to combat street harassment globally, released a video of a woman walking through New York City amid a relentless onslaught of comments and catcalls (as shown in the screengrab above).
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. I watched the catcall video. I’ll say this: In my 15 yrs in NYC, the worst harassment I’ve experienced came from rich white men on the UES.
— Liliana Segura (@LilianaSegura) October 29, 2014
“UES” refers to the Upper East Side, New York’s wealthiest neighborhood—and soon my feed was filled with similar comments from other women whose reality did not match what was depicted in the video. That universe looked so racially skewed, it came as little surprise when it was later revealed that footage of white harassers had been edited out. More stunning was the way its creators defended this decision as an unfortunate necessity due to bad audio. Really? The excuse was so aggressively tone-deaf as to be offensive: How could they not see the danger in designing an activist tool that casts street harassment as an offense perpetrated almost solely by black and brown men?
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De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia