What United And Fox Can Teach Cos. About Victim Blaming
By Brian Markovitz and Brenda Adimora, Joseph Greenwald & Laake PA (May 5, 2017, 4:28 PM EDT) -- One of United Airline's initial responses to the April 9, 2017, forcible removal of Dr. David Dao was to blame him for the inappropriate actions taken. An internal email sent by United CEO Oscar Munoz to all of its employees, that unsurprisingly was released to the press and the public, stated that Dao had been "disruptive and belligerent," thus implicitly condoning the force used to remove him as United "st[oo]d behind all of [its employees]." This playbook is familiar to almost anyone who has made a complaint at a corporation for sexual harassment. Frequently the tactic taken in a sexual harassment complaint is to accuse the victim of some sort of misconduct to undermine credibility or to try to demonstrate that the alleged victim was essentially asking for it....
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