MA-1: Morse accused of inappropriate sexual relations with college students

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This story is so salient because it perfectly showcases the careerism, opportunism and lack of virtue that is endemic to the entire Democratic Party apparatus and those who seek to climb its ladder.

Between this guy and Matt Nowling, College Dems prove once again that they deserve to be disbanded lol

Absolutely shameful. The party of "equality" perfectly happy to do a homophobic hitjob on an ambitious and obviously very caring young man whose sole offense was to try and end corporate America's congressman's career.

The GOP is honest about their politics. The Democrats, on the other hands, are monsters.

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Repeat after me:

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Repeat after me: I don't believe anything that doesn't confirm my myopic worldview

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So gross. This will discourage young, gay progressives from running for office in the future. But I look forward to all the cis-het red avatars lecturing me about how the Democrats, who spent the 2000s throwing us under the bus, are the LGBTQ+ party...

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Arguably, as an adjunct (and I should know because I am one), students have more sway over his potential career prospects than he would over anything more than maybe a grade. The power dynamics argument is BS. It's just yet another lame attempt by reactionaries (including gay reactionaries) to pretend like sexual puritanism is a progressive value when it's not.

If two adults consent to have sex (and actually, I don't think he even acknowledge that he banged any of the students. The term used was dates, so until I hear otherwise)... it's perfectly fine. People saying that it's "creepy" are just mimicking the rhetoric that has been used to demonize gay men for decades, whether intentional or not. To this day, when gay men are arrested and prosecuted for sexual assault or statutory rape, they face stiffer penalties, more jail time, and higher rates of guilty verdicts. So, don't be cute, you're actually being homophobic even if you're gay. There is a massive academic literature and history behind this, and you're welcome to look it up on your own time. I'm not going to cite it or quote it here because I am personally cynical that anybody making the "inappropriate" argument even believes it. Like all establishment, pro-corporate, pro-corruption Democrats they just find whatever convenient argument they can to disparage the left and legitimate corruption, and it's just telling that they are willing to perpetuate lies (the "rape" or "assault" thing) and other forms of homophobic discourse just to keep big pharma's favorite congressman in office.