I like to share my posts on other pages and groups as a way to attract people to my page. I thought to myself, "There is no better place to share my righteous indignation than on a Bernie Sanders page. These people share my values and are seekers of justice! They are my kin!" Apparently not the people who admin on the page Bernie Believers. Those people are using my hero's name to downplay sexual assault.
I was immediately attacked for being a "Hillbot" and told that I was posting Hillary propaganda and Trump didn't rape anyone.
First of all, I love Jill Stein and I am not a supporter of Hillary Clinton (See my previous post Triggers) and I am a real person with independent thoughts who isn't getting paid to express any opinions. Second of all, I love Bernie more and have done so longer than most of them. I have been following him obsessively for ten years while most of them didn't know he existed until this election cycle.
I assured them I was not a Hillary supporter and reminded them that speaking out against Trump should be every bit as important as speaking out against HRC if they were really supporting Jill Stein the way they said they were. Most importantly though, I explained to them that sexual assault doesn't always mean rape and sexual assault is always bad, even if it isn't rape. That prompted them to lecture me with the explanation that "letting" someone grab you is the definition of consent and saying that I am too stupid to understand three letter words like "let".
"Letting" someone do something isn't the same as giving consent. People who believe that are the reason we need consent classes in schools. When I explained that, they blocked me. This brings me to the conclusion that the admins in the Bernie Believers group on Facebook are OK with sexual assault and don't understand what consent is. I invite them all over to my page to learn something.
