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“This isn't unique to Cornell. It's not the Cornell 7—it's the Cornell 53. It's every adult that enabled or was a bystander."

In a conversation with Ellie Austin at Fortune MPW, California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom denounced online rhetoric aimed aimed at the Cornell gang rape accuser and said, “We have to have her back.”

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00:00This isn't unique to Cornell. It's not the Cornell 7, it's the Cornell 53. It's every adult that
00:05enabled or was a bystander. It's government officials like the top, the president, protecting.
00:11It's not even about those boys. It's about all of us. It happens on every campus. It happens
00:17with college coaches. It happened with my soccer coach at Stanford. And it keeps being normalized
00:23and we've done this and the rage that girls and women are feeling, I'm so proud of them. I'm so
00:28proud that they're standing up and speaking out and using their voice online. We have to have their
00:32back. This young woman, we have to have her back. I'm disgusted by some of the rhetoric aimed at
00:38shaming her and silencing her. It's not okay. We have work to do as a culture. We just do and
00:43we're
00:43all part of that. It's why you all matter. Why you having seats at the tables of power matter. Why
00:49you
00:50having successful companies and wealth to determine the future of not just your community, not just
00:55your industry, but our economy, the global economy, it's why it matters.

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