In an interview for Bloomberg TV Ron Paul scoffs at federal laws against sexual harassment. He thinks you should quit if your boss is behaving in ways you don’t like.
There is a definition of sexual harassment. Conduct must be severe or pervasive in order to be considered sexual harassment. It is conduct that creates an “intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment”. According to Ron Paul you should either laugh it off, submit to it or quit. Let’s not forget this kind of conduct used to be regular sport in the workplace. Hey, men will be men. It’s just human nature. Women were demeaned, disrespected and would suffer economically if they complained. It was almost sure to occur wherever you worked so changing jobs wasn’t a guaranteed remedy.
Keeping your job should not be construed as tacit consent to being fondled or submitting to other unwanted sexual behavior. Yes, people have become thin-skinned and whiny. Political correctness has gone overboard. It’s one thing to point that out and quite another to advocate a libertarianism gone wild where it’s every man for himself in every respect.
Ron Paul’s first instinct is to oppose all forms of government regulation. Sometimes in order to make the world fit his philosophy, he must trivialize the consequences of having little or no regulation. Civil liberties depend on an underlying authority. Rational governance established by democratic means is not anathema to liberty. The challenge is to maintain a proper balance. We are in the fight of our lives to regain that balance. Ron Paul goes too far the other way.
This morning on Fox he clarified his stand on sexual harassment. Jokes are still OK. He agrees the government has to step in if violence is involved but then all that’s needed is the local police.
The government has a role after all, cleaning up the aftermath of a world with few rules.
Ron Paul does go too far the other way, like a Libertarian. We can’t live with NO laws at all. The FEDS have to be responsible for the value of our dollar, but the human being has to be responsible for their behavior. No wonder Ron Paul is stuck in the House, and wanted no where in high office.
What a reprehensible person this man is… as the father of two adult daughters I have no patience for this kind of rhetoric. Keep talking Mr Paul, Talk yourself right out of office…Please
I could really spit bullets over this one, but what would be the point? I say, let him talk. The more he does, the more irrelevant he becomes. No one does as good a job of exposing the real Ron Paul as Ron Paul himself.
Ron Paul is his own “shovel ready project”! Keep digging your own political grave Sir Leader of Planet Zog….Keep digging! 😀
Ron Paul trivializes his own candidacy simply by being Ron Paul.
So far, Ron Paul has managed to offend every group imaginable, except the Smurfs.
LOL!