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“#MeToo is a solidarity movement for survivors, not a rehabilitation program for rapists and sexual assaulters.” The statement was YouTuber Kat Blaque’s response on Twitter (now X) to comedian Michael Ian Black’s August 2018 tweet supporting the “comeback” of recently disgraced comedian Louis C.K.
The exchange came less than a year after the New York Times reported on allegations by five women of sexual misconduct by C.K. Following the November 2017 story, C.
K. published a statement confirming that he had made inappropriate comments to and masturbated in front .