no matter who does it.
Donna Dewitt, the president of the South Carolina AFL-CIO, has spent two years doing battle with Republican Gov. Nikki Haley. At a picnic this past weekend, Dewitt put on what she thought was a playful demonstration of her feelings toward the South Carolina governor and GOP star -- by taking a baseball bat to a pinata bearing Haley's face, to the enthusiastic cheers of her fellow progressives.
- Huffington Post
With the Republicans watering down the VAWA, this also becomes part of the narrative of what is acceptable. (warning, triggers)
It's not acceptable. Plenty of women in America and around the world are physically beaten or under threat of physical assault every day. (my first marriage ended because my (ex) husband would beat me) .
We now wince and find Ralph Kramden's (the Honeymooners) threats to Alice abhorrent,
"One of these days... POW!!! Right in the kisser!" or "BANG, ZOOM! Straight to the moon!"
because no matter how empty the threat and that he never followed through with it, the reality was that it didn't speak out against violence toward women, if it did anything it made it more acceptable.
We wouldn't stand for it if a picture of Nancy Pelosi had been put on a pinata and beaten.
This isn't about liberal versus conservative. This is about what we are as a group and a country. I don't care if conservatives wouldn't stand up if it was a picture of Pelosi, I don't expect consistency from them. I expect hypocrisy from them. But liberals stand up, whether we get credit for it or not.
For her part Donna Dewitt, doesn't regret doing it.
In an interview with HuffPost, Dewitt said Tuesday that, despite any negative publicity, she has no regrets about the pinata smackdown, which she insists was all in good fun. The picnic, she notes, was not an AFL-CIO gathering, but instead a powwow for the South Carolina Progressive Network, a coalition of several dozen left-of-center groups.
-huffpo
The AFL-CIO isn't pleased
The Washington-based AFL-CIO itself wasn't amused by the performance. "While it was meant as fun, there is absolutely no place for that kind of joke in a conversation that is extremely serious about how to rebuild our middle class and our country," spokeswoman Alison Omens said in a statement. "There's plenty to talk about in Gov. Haley's awful record. We do not believe that's an appropriate joke -- working people deserve a better conversation."
-huffpo
Violence against women or an
analogue of a women is not right or acceptable, no matter who does it . Violence against anyone or an
analogue of someone is not right or acceptable, no matter who does it
If you are so inclined please contact the South Carolina AFL-CIO
Contact Information:
South Carolina AFL-CIO
P.O. Box 39
Swansea, SC 29160
Phone: 803-926-8680
Officers:
Name Title
Donna S. Dewitt President