{"id":34068,"date":"2022-06-02T20:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/after-depp-heard-verdict-me-too-founder-says-movement-cant-be-stopped\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T20:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:38:04","slug":"after-depp-heard-verdict-me-too-founder-says-movement-cant-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/after-depp-heard-verdict-me-too-founder-says-movement-cant-be-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"After Depp, Heard verdict, Me Too founder says movement can’t be stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Wednesday, a jury of five men and two women dealt a victory to Depp in his defamation case against Heard, his ex-wife. Heard, for her part di lei, prevailed in part of her counterclaim against Depp. Depp charged that Heard had falsely and maliciously accused him of domestic abuse, costing him millions in damages from lost acting jobs after an opinion piece attributed to Heard was published by The Washington Post in 2018. While the piece didn’t name Depp directly, Heard described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”<\/div>\n
The verdict rapidly made its way across social media platforms, with some conservative pundits such as Ann Coulter and Meghan McCain declaring the death of #MeToo. (McCain’s tweet, which read: “#MeToo is dead. Helluva job @ACLU” has since been deleted; the ACLU wrote a draft of the opinion piece and helped place it. Heard is an ambassador for the organization.)<\/div>\n

Tarana Burke, who started the “Me Too” Movement years before it would become a viral hashtag, stressed in a statement Thursday that the movement is “very much alive.” <\/p>\n

Burke said people try to “kill” the hashtag “every few months” as a sport, but that “it means something to millions and millions of folks.” <\/p>\n

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“You can’t kill us. We are beyond the hashtag. We are a movement,” Burke said<\/a>. “The ‘me too’ movement isn’t dead. The system is dead.” <\/div>\n
Days earlier, Burke’s organization, me too. International, issued a statement<\/a> acknowledging the “mockery of assault, shame and blame” over the weeks of the trial, calling it a “toxic catastrophe and one of the biggest defamations of the movement.” <\/div>\n
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