xoJane: Dominique Strauss Kahn, international man of misogyny
At xoJane, I wrote about one of my favorite shady characters, DSK. From the piece:
I should note the cruel irony of his request for diplomatic immunity considering the smear campaign that his alleged victim was subjected to back in May and the weeks following, due to her status as an asylum seeker from Guinea. Her racial profile and background were used against her as proof of her bad reputation. Her entire life was dissected on the basis of being an immigrant, with insinuations about her possibly undocumented situation.
Unlike Strauss Kahn and his diplomatic credentials, Diallo was treated like the kind of foreigner that gets little compassion in mainstream media.
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