# Who could this article be referring to?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 17, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-this-article-be-referring-to/743412 "2016-01-17T16:40:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-this-article-be-referring-to/743412/21 "2016-01-18T04:50:08Z")

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> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> What makes commenters journalists? Are you a journalist?

Sorry, just being grumpy.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-this-article-be-referring-to/743412/22 "2016-01-18T05:10:33Z")

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> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> What makes commenters journalists? Are you a journalist?

Something about this story has bothered me, and I think it’s because I believe the woman, but it’s kind of unfair to do so because he can’t speak for himself. Trouble is I don’t see a reason for her to make this claim falsely, and in my mind I can’t help feeling this guy is just another dirtbag now.

Anyway, it’s Hufpo that got me to make that remark. The commenters are just people like us, and mixing news and unedited commentary is just something I’ll have to get used to.

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**Author:** ![kevlaw](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kevlaw/32/2281_2.png) [@kevlaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevlaw)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-this-article-be-referring-to/743412/23 "2018-07-20T16:52:42Z")

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Old thread, but, in case anyone is still interested, Martha C. Nussbaum provides the epilogue here:

> **[The Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law | Yeoh Tiong Lay...](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/c-ppl)**
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> The Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law.

She also provides her reasons for not coughing up the name before. Good reasons IMO.

> [@](#):
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> Why didn’t I name the man who abused me? I shall now do so: Ralph Waite (1928-2014), who  
> starred in The Waltons as the pioneer father.
> 
> –SNIP–
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> I had noticed that in the discussion of Bill Cosby’s offenses the discussion somehow became all about Cosby, not about the problem, which was and still is  
> ubiquitous. So, as one of the replies sagely sees, by making it simply “my own Bill Cosby tale” I meant  
> to signal that it is generic, and not about this or that famous individual.
> 
> – SNIP–
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> There was a subsidiary reason. Waite’s difficulties clearly were connected to alcoholism, and I had reason to  
> believe that for some time before his death he had been a sober recovering alcoholic and a born again  
> Christian. Since I think one should give people a chance to reform, and since I thought it was at  
> least possible that he had, I saw no point in publicly shaming him at that time. The issue was the  
> thing.

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