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I say absolutely not after what happened to Anita Hill.
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Don't Out Cain's Accusers
By Michelle Goldberg
Conservatives are calling for Herman Cain's harassment accusers to come forward. But Michelle Goldberg says their anonymity shouldn't be compromised just because he's running for president.
Its probably only a matter of time before the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s are outed. Already, the conservative media is braying for their names and setting up justifications for identifying them. See, a little bird told Politico that something scandalous happened a while back, but theyre not going to tell us who said so or even what exactly is supposed to have happened, wrote The Daily Callers Jim Treacher on Friday. If you didnt know better, youd think they were indulging in the lowest sort of rumormongering while hiding behind a tissue-thin veil of journalistic integrity.
Unlike Anita Hill, they havent made a choice to become involved in a big national political battle.
And so these women are likely bracing for their lives to be blown apart. During the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill described coming home to an answering machine full of messages, some worse than I had anticipateddeath threats and threats of rape or sodomy. In the epilogue to her 1997 book Speaking Truth to Power, she wrote, My life has been forever changed. I will never again feel as safe and secure as I did before I received the first threats on my life. Hills ordeal was before Fox News, before the reputational meat grinder of the Internet. If the women in the Cain case decide to come forward, they will deserve credit for their bravery, but to force them into the spotlight would be yet another violation.
More: Herman Cain's Sexual-Harassment Accusers Shouldn't Be Outed - The Daily Beast
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