I would like to ask, though, if asking him to resign is a bridge too far, what do you think is fair punishment?
Apologize (check), take action (call for investigation), probation (revisit calls for resignation if further incidents occur)
None of that is punishment.
Well if you dont think thats a punishment, then I guess he doesnt deserve to be punished. Because forcing someone from their job over a minor sexual harassment allegation from two years before they took the job in the first place...is asinine.
You keep calling it minor sexual harassment.
The kiss isn't that. Unwanted sexual touching is sexual assault.
And in what would do we live on where apologizing is a "punishment." Apologizing is literall the most bare bone thing you could do to a sexual assault.
Even in the absolute worst case scenario, this is an isolated incident that has reasonable doubt built into the very claim. Again, if more sexual assault charges are leveled against Franken, I will rethink my stance. But as it stands, you are literally calling for someone to lose their job based on a single instance from before they got said job.
Why are we acting like U.S. senator is just another job? Hell I was asking us to hold it to the standard of "Wal-Mart employee" and apparently that was too high. ---
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